Entertainment
The Two Man Gentleman Band are farce done well
When I initially received a disc of Live in New York! by The Two Man Gentlemen Band, I had severe reservations. Novelty music is the slipperiest slope a group can climb. When it’s good it’s as funny as the greatest standup comics, but when it’s bad it’s more annoying...
Don’t pity the A-Team
Based on the 1980s TV series of the same name, The A-Team starts with the formation of the team by former Army Rangers. Eighty successful missions later, they’re tricked into recovering stolen U.S. Mint plates that threaten to enable terrorists destroy the nation’s...
Capturing that local flavor
You can take the man out of the Mission, but you can’t take the Mission out of the man,” one of lead-character Che’s (Benjamin Bratt) homeboys in La Mission says during a low-rider jaunt through the North Beach district of San Francisco after Che expresses ...
Canadian rapper Drake looks to seize the moment , then make...
LOS ANGELES — The crowd at downtown Los Angeles' Club Nokia arrived primed and pumped up. Not just to be entertained but more palpably, to witness history...
Wanda Sykes has plenty to talk about, from politics to motherhood...
As the mother of 1-year-old twins, Wanda Sykes has shifted her television viewing habits...
Orianthi has an ax to grind in a male-dominated world
People call Orianthi (just Orianthi, like those onenamed Brazilian soccer stars) a lot of things...
Thompson’s last stand
In 2001, convicted murderer Lisl Auman was 13 months into a life sentence when she wrote a letter to the author of a book that had recently brought her some joy in prison...
Stepping into the spotlight
Fourteen years, give or take, is a long time to be the guy off to one side, but Dave Rawlings, the guitarist/songwriter who’s been accompanist to Gillian Welch since the mid-’90s, is a studiously pragmatic musician. Welch’s voice and restless fluency in any ...
Psych-rock stars
In the summer of 2006, I was drumming in a fledgling San Francisco psychedelic indie-rock band called The Love X Nowhere when we played to a sparse West L.A. crowd along with a bluesy young opening act called Mania, made up of scruffy UC Santa Cruz kids. “Mania...
Emerging from the shadows
Karen Elson on being the musician who is Jack White’s wife Karen Elson is not Jack White’s wife. Well, technically she is, but the famous model-turned-musician lives under a looming shadow of attachment to The White Stripes that seems a bit unfair. Perhaps ...
Brandy’s comeback trail begins on reality TV
LOS ANGELES — It's only after performing a small set of hits in front of a packed house at West Hollywood's...
Almost two years after his death, Bernie Mac is still missed
CHICAGO — In his bathroom, Bernie Mac...
