Wishing Megan Seling the Happiest of Birthdays
Isn't it funny how sometimes you feel like you know someone, and then, once you find out more about said person's favorite music, you find…
Rachel Yamagata
The World's Not Ready And I mean that in a good way. I felt privileged to be part of a small audience to experience Rachael…
The Outsider Is In
William Hung will never be American Idol. And Ralph Nader will never be President. Yet there they were, Hung on Fox’s unfathomably popular amateur hour,…
Invisible Giant
{note: it turns out that, in true DIY fashion, the copy of Invisible Giant that landed in my lap is among a small percentage of…
Fulfilled/Complete
A press photograph of Broken Spindles is Joel Petersen — a lean man with confidence for an expression. His stare is like that of an…
Travels with Charley and The Play's the Thing
Travels with Charley Book-It at Center House Theatre The year was 1960. Twenty-one years had passed since the publication of his masterpiece The Grapes of…
Singing Forest
The Intiman continues its season with the world premiere of Craig Lucas' Singing Forest, an uneven and bloated wannabe-epic with nearly enough saving graces to…
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
"I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion!" In the film Magnolia it was frogs from the sky. In the movie Donnie Darko, it’s a…
The Lashes, DEK, and Agent Orange
June 22's Graceland bill was a fascinating mix of all things punk. The five-band-bill was definitively punk: loud, fast and adrenaline-pumping. But missing was much…
Fahrenheit 9/11
"You don't have to be in Washington to work." By now you've surely heard about all the hoo-haw surrounding Michael Moore's lefty latest. About how…