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Garrick Ohlsson
My good friend Mary Louise is a Garrick Ohlsson groupie: not just an owns-all-his-recordings fan, but a plans-vacations-around-his-concert-tours…
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Christian Slater
On the innocuous surface of David Lynch’s unforgettably freaky 1986 Blue Velvet are Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan…
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Cloud Nothings
Cloud Nothings’ third LP, this year’s Steve Albini-produced Attack on Memory, finds 20-year-old mastermind Dylan Baldi recording with…
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Andrew W.K.
Marking the ten year anniversary of his breakthrough debut I Get Wet, the party animal will play the…
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Oklahoma!
I’ve got three quibbles with this otherwise vigorous production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. One, many cast…
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The Wizard of Oz
Family flick, gay cult movie, midnight stoner jamboree—it doesn’t really matter how you categorize The Wizard of Oz…
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Cold War Kids
The Long Beach quartet is playing a three three-night stands in three West Coast cities to promote their…
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tEEth
Last year, the oddly spelled Portland performance group tEEth won the grand prize at On the Boards’ AWARD…
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Limón Dance Company
José Limón believed that dance should reflect both the heights and the depths of human experience—works like There…
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Nellie McKay
Reviewing then-teenaged Nellie McKay’s debut album in these pages in 2004, I fretted that—despite her mischievous instincts and…
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The Good Sin & Luck-One
Jovial MC The Good Sin and lyricist Luck-One have both come a long way in the last year.…
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Guttermouth
They’re obnoxious, they’re offensive, they’re Guttermouth—and how better to spend a Saturday night than drinking cheap beer with…
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Mike Q
Before Madonna took vogueing to the Super Bowl, it was part of NYC’s gay “ballroom” subculture, where it…
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Grynch
This is the album release show for Grynch’s third album, Perspective. Expect to see a few of the…
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Soul Train Party
Soul Train’s Don Cornelius (RIP) taught a nation to get down while exposing audiences to some funky music;…
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The Lady Vanishes
World War II was looming and nigh inevitable when Alfred Hitchcock directed The Lady Vanishes (1938). Beginning on…
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Eric Klinenberg
You’ve heard it all before: Still not married? How can you live in such a small apartment? Don’t…
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Singles
Director Cameron Crowe once confided to us that the studio delayed releasing his 1992 picture by almost a…
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Joan Rivers
Just three days after terrorizing the A-listers walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday, the…
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Atlas Sound
Since releasing his first record as Atlas Sound in 2008, the difference between Bradford Cox’s work with Deerhunter…