The Faraway Places, Unfocus on It (Eenie Meenie Records). Baby,it’scold-and tense -outside, but this catchy, cosmic CD will warm your frigid heart and relax your tight ass. According to the band’s Website,principals Donna Coppola (keyboards,vocals)and Chris Colthart (guitar, vocals) met in Boston while watching a Sun Ra video, and their music-first put out under the Read More
Gastro-pub Girl comes to town; backed by Ken Friedman, Mario Batali-and maybe Bono-a British chef is ready to change the way New York thinks of the words ‘Spotted Pig.’
Red-striped watch cap pulled low over her eyes, 29-year-old April Bloomfield was moving fast through the frosty air of lower Sixth Avenue when I asked her Read More
On the evening of Friday, Nov. 21, Reverend John Carmichael, the president of the Church of Scientology’s New York chapter, attended a performance of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, an Off Off Broadway musical that is currently selling out the house at the Tank on West 42nd Street.
All the actors in the Read More
“Sex is good! Sex is really, really, really good!” the actor William H. Macy said. “Sex? Love! It’s fine! I have two little girls, and I don’t care if they see sex. It’s not going to hurt them. Violence, however, will.”
Then his voice rose an octave. “Even bad sex is O.K.!” he said.
Somewhere around Los Angeles, Alec Baldwin was taking a hike and panting.
“I don’t want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there?” he said between labored breaths. “Right when you would want to question the motives Read More
“First off, I’d like to say a hello to MSNBC and Joe Scarborough, whose cameras seem to enjoy following me around,” said Janeane Garofalo during a Nov. 5 speech at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium to help promote Nation Books’ It’s a Free Country, which was edited by Artemis Records chief Danny Goldberg. “And I Read More
Paul Westerberg’s CD and DVD combination, Come Feel Me Tremble . Did you lose track of Mr. Westerberg somewhere between the Replacements’ last gasp, All Shook Down , and his solo-album debut, 14 Songs ? Well, this is the way to come back. Like Mr. Westerberg, who co-directed the film under the nom de cinema Read More
There is a song on the upcoming Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s album, Come Poop with Me , called “No Rules in the Animal Kingdom.” It’s got a punchy New Wave–style sound. Here’s what it says:
“You can steal and you’re no sinner / You can stick your arm up a kangaroo/ And make Read More
Eighty-year-old Jack Carter stood at the wooden lectern in the New York Hilton’s Grand Ballroom. His hair looked like a mousse of candied yams. “I did waste a lot of energy writing jokes about jams and jellies and preserves,” he said. “I thought we were doing the Schmucker Brothers.” Mr. Carter looked down at the Read More
Eighty-year-old Jack Carter stood at the wooden lectern in the New York Hilton’s Grand Ballroom. His hair looked like a mousse of candied yams. “I did waste a lot of energy writing jokes about jams and jellies and preserves,” he said. “I thought we were doing the Schmucker Brothers.” Mr. Carter looked down at the Read More
