EVANSVILLE MUSEUM, 411 SE Riverside Drive, 425-2406; “Evansville on the Homefront: World War II,” through Oct. 28. “Eaten Alive: Parasites and Their Hosts,” through Oct. 28. “More Than Meets the Eye,” through Nov. 18. “The Uncommon Quilter: M. Joan Lintault,” through Nov. 25. “Object Project,” through Jan. 6. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. [...]
Saddest Great American Moment: The entire episode worked on the premise that, more than any group of people on earth (with the sole exception of American Idol auditioners), shitty bands are more oblivious to their own limitations than anyone. Two aging rock bands, Tennessee BBQ-pop band Sizzling Happy Family and Ohio M.O.R. rockers Northmont [...]
10:00 p.m. Next stop, the Indaba Music Loft, an apartment turned music performance space for the “yet to be discovered.” I came here to catch a threesome out of D.C. named Jukebox the Ghost. I’ve seen them perform before, but I was curious about the venue. It actually felt more like a frat house [...]
Lloyd isn t alone. In America, Sony has used its purchase of the video-sharing site Grouper to launch Crackle, a website featuring emerging stand-ups and sketches from new writers and performers. With Peter Serafinowicz, of Spaced and Look Around You fame, securing a sketch show on BBC2 this year after posting parody news items [...]
I still get a deep sense of joy upon entering the concert halls, bars, dives, clubs or whatever other term you may have for place within which good music is played. The machine gun pulse of the double kick combine with the banshee wail of an electric guitar (turned up to 11) is more [...]
Def Jam boss LA Reid has gone on the record stating that the label stand behind Nas and the title of his pending release “Nigga” after news reports in teh US ststed otherwise. Reid made the comments at the recent premier of American Gangster in New York explaining his support for the Queensbridge rapper [...]
The Canadian Opera Company yesterday announced it will hold a special free concert on Nov. 1 in memory of its late general director, Richard Bradshaw, featuring the COC orchestra he led along with vocal stars Russell Braun, Adrianne Pieczonka, Robert Gleadow, Joni Henson, Robert Pomakov and Krisztina Szabo and others. Tickets will be available [...]
But it turns out that he’s moved back to the States. As he tells me over the phone from his tour bus rolling through Idaho, “I still have a place in Spain, but I have moved to New York City — we kind of have two home bases now. I lived in Spain full-time [...]
Joe Rathbone He s based in Nashville now, but when he sings This Is Where I Come From, Joe Rathbone is talking about Philadelphia. It s here where he honed his now-considerable chops in the 90s. This Is Where . . ., which mentions 69th Street, the Tower Theater and West Philly, comes from [...]
I’m all about accuracy. If the university only squandered the paltry sum of $43 million, then I stand corrected. Oh yeah, I feel much better now. How about those donations though.