The first time I came across Kris Kristofferson—in both senses of the word—was in a 1976 issue of Playboy. Gay…
PAN SONIC, Aaltopiiri (Mute) I’d completely forgotten about Pan Sonic until I visited this year’s Bed of Sound installation at…
Opening Kurt Cobain’s heart-shaped Pandora’s box.
Currently MIA from Comedy Central, where his raunchy wit balanced Jon Stewart’s irony, Chappelle brings his outsized stand-up persona to…
Experimental collective Xiu Xiu get up close and extremely personal.
A conversation with a Microphone.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’ve had great chances to show off your kindness, generosity, and compassion recently. I’m very impressed…
The Omen?
Atreyu find the sweet spot between metal and emo.
It used to be that recording your music meant expensive studio time and hours burned begging some pizza-eating knob-twiddler to…
Class is in session, and Death Cab for Cutie’s holding the chalk.
TUESDAY BOOKS ROBBIE CONAL If Dr. Howard Dean or Gen. Wesley Clark could put into words what Robbie Conal puts…
Bach Around the Clock, Stereolab, and the Oscars top our must-see list.
James Joyce, His Name Is Alive, and Philip Jeck.
Best BandwagonThe American Theater Wing piled on the Everyone Loves Intiman juggernaut this spring by awarding it the Tony for…
NEWS The annual Phabulous Phinney Pig Out hits 12 Phinney/Greenwood restaurants on Thursday, Oct. 6, to fight hunger in North…
Keeping up appearances with Australia’s grandest import.
Bigger is better—so promoters of super-sized fast-food meals, cinematic lizards, and Viagra would have you believe. Now it appears the…
Recording artist, filmmaker, actor, and playwright, Miranda July will throw the book at you.
Y’know, the Gnome prefers to leave media criticism to Inside.com, Brill’s Content, and maybe Howard Kurtz (though definitely not to…
