Entertainment
Westerns, whiskey and ‘Little Silver Hearts’
Similar to the rule that says you have to kiss under mistletoe, legend has long had it that if you go to a Lucero...
moe. blows out a few candles
About three weeks ago, the dutiful webmaster running moe.’s homepage linked to a piece lauding the band’s long-tenured moe.down festival, held in upstate New York, as one of the world’s best music festivals, putting the low-key and locally beloved event alongside ...
Home viewing: Women Make Film
Running 14 hours and featuring the work of 183 directors, 700 clips and seven narrators, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema...
Getting on the Dechen Hawk plan
He sits alone by the window of The Laughing Goat. A laptop, lunch and red wine are in front of him and conversation with another table happens to his left...
History starts here
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch — later rechristened Mean Streets — he...
Join the circus
When I was in third grade, my best friend’s parents took me to the Big Apple Circus in Manchester, N.H. At the time, it was like nothing I had ever seen — all spectacle and showmanship, full of the sheer elation of putting on a show just for the sake of putting on a ...
Imagining a better world
In 1970, Scotland Yard busted into the prestigious London Art Gallery, shutting down a newly opened show and seizing eight pieces of artwork deemed obscene by authorities. The confiscated lithographs, a relatively tame set of erotic nudes created by the artist for ...
El Ten Eleven drops new E.P.
So-Cal "Power-duo" El Ten Eleven dropped a new E.P. online today...
A constant kick in the ass
With a studio album, For All Kings, having arrived last year, Anthrax is following up a fall tour opening for Slayer with a current...
Recording the next chapter
As the soul-streaked strains of Todd Park Mohr’s voice laments the laws of love and justice on the band’s new single “Beautiful,” carried on the wings of one of modern rock’s most effortlessly nimble rhythm sections, it feels as if the Monsters are back again...
