Author Archive
Q&A
Touring in support of her new album, Snow Shadows: Songs of Vince Martin, which arrives in stores today, singer-songwriter Alana Amram came through Cleveland last night to play to a sparse crowd at Wilbert’s, a small music venu...
Q&A
Since quitting his day job some seven years ago, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton has gone from Internet sensation to up-and-coming recording artist. The sharp pop hooks and nerdy lyrics on his forthcoming album, Artificial H...
TV Reviews
We got hooked on HBO’s Entourage seven years ago when it premiered on HBO. In that time, however, the show’s original impulse – to parody Hollywood and all the bullshit that goes on behind the scenes – has dissipated. But in th...
Q&A
We’re not huge metalheads over here, but we do sometimes like to crank the stereo and bask in the aural glow of some unadulterated rawk. And for the last couple of years, we’ve followed the avant-metal act Mr. Gnome (singer-gui...
Flicks
http://youtu.be/RFp28r9sqUw British director John Madden (Ethan Frome, Mrs. Brown, Proof) has a long history of making great period pieces. He was even nominated for an Oscar for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love. With The Debt, a rem...
Album
A child of the 70s, we grew up on The Muppet Show. The quirky songs, bold offbeat humor and charming sensitivity put it in a category with few other TV programs—something our parents were as excited to watch as we were. Mom and...
Flicks
http://youtu.be/CfyHY58lqCk You might not guess it from the title, but Our Idiot Brother is a little more drama than comedy. The film stars Paul Rudd as Ned, a nice enough guy whose naiveté tends to get him into trouble. One da...
Trips
We started Day Four with lunch at Aria. Yep, lunch. Party foul—we did a little work before heading out. Anyway, Aria is one of the hotels that’s part of the relatively new CityCenter development. It is set off the strip a bit t...
Trips
We started off day three by heading to the pool in the morning to try to catch some sun. “Try” is right. The New York New York pool – essentially a slab of concrete with a hole with some water in it – doesn’t get any sunlight u...
Trips
For day two, we walked The Strip and stopped in casinos along the way. We have to admit, though still not a luxury casino, Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall seems to have cleaned up its act quite a bit. We stopped in at a few of...