Entertainment
Paradise Found
When Paradise Found Records & Music opens on April 1 at the corner of 17th and Pearl, it’ll be a homecoming of sorts.
Pearl Street...
Alyssa Milano returns to prime time in ABC’s ‘Romantically Challenged’
The list of flaws plaguing the new ABC sitcom, "Romantically Challenged," begins with its premise and builds from there...
Everybody wants to rule the world
For Nikola Tesla, it all started with a cat. Specifically, a black cat named Macak, a feline friend from Tesla’s boyhood. One day while...
What’s in a name?
Her name is Amber Jensdotter. But her last name hasn’t always been Jensdotter. And in the next few weeks, it will be something completely...
Call and response
For Betty Hart, theater is both a call and a response. What happens on stage is a crucial piece of her work as a new...
Feel the feeling
The term “emo” has lived many lives since its origins in the evolving D.C. hardcore scene of the late 1980s. Three decades later, the...
‘Mistakes are just things we didn’t mean to play’
By all accounts, Victor Wooten is a great musician. He’s won five Grammy’s, been named one of the top 10 bassists of all time...
The welcome unpredictability of Shakey Graves
"I don’t really wear a lot of suspenders anymore,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, tells me from a small town in British Columbia with “a...
Indie hip hop is dead
Musab, aka Sab the Artist, aka Beyond, has gone through his fair share of personal transformations. He started writing lyrics when he was 9,...
Hearing history
You can’t walk into Chautauqua Auditorium without feeling the grand sweep of history thrumming within its walls, according to local musician Nick Forster.
“Just seeing...
Making scents
In ancient Egypt, to anoint a statue of a god with perfume was to bring that statue to life, for the gods were imbued...
