AltWeeklies Wire
Sword Swallowers Show Their Scarsnew
To kick off the first international Sword Swallower's Awareness Day, Tyler Fyre plunges a 27-and-a-half-inch steel blade down his throat, rests it at the bottom of his stomach, wrenches it out, and delivers a punch line: "Well, that's all there is to sword swallowing, folks! Looks like we've wrapped up remarkably early here!"
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
03-06-2008 |
Performance
Billie Mahoney Danced with the Best of Themnew
And at 80, this sexy number isn't done yet.
The Pitch |
Jen Chen |
03-04-2008 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Onstage, the Sex Workers' Art Show Exploits Younew
Tour organizer Annie Oakley lists some aims of the show: Reveal sex workers as human; gain respect; demand rights; free one another from exploitation. But in practice, the show's intentions get a little murkier.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
02-14-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Sex Workers' Art Show: More Than Bang for the Bucknew
The show is a humanizing, edifying, fun and possibly even moral event for anyone who has cast wanton eyes on a sex worker.
Dig Boston |
Marli Guzzetta |
02-13-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Boobs With a Side of Soynew
Portland claims world's first vegan strip club.
Willamette Week |
Lillian Hogan |
02-06-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Garry Marshall Directs a Production of 'Elixir of Love'new
What does the producer of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley and the director of Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries know about opera? Answer: How to make it funny, of course.
San Antonio Current |
Diana Lyn Roberts |
01-23-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
A Farewell to Evelnew
They say only the good die young, so it makes a weird kind of sense that a man named Evel Knievel would live to age 69.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
12-07-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Geek Chic Sketch Troupe Strikes Comedy Goldnew
To describe Knock Knock. (Who's There?) Comedy! as a sketch troupe that does comedy about comedy suggests their material is full of in jokes and isn't, in the end, funny. That's not true.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Sumi |
11-30-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
I Have a Man-Crush on Zach Galifianakisnew
Just like Sarah Silverman, Eugene Mirman, David Cross and every other comedian who doesn't artistically masturbate on a derivative sitcom, Hollywood will never figure out what to do with Galifianakis. And while that's probably frustrating for his agent, it's incredibly reassuring for those of us who truly love comedy as an art form.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
11-19-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Sarah Silverman: Pretty Vacantnew
Silverman says she might float a sex tape with Jimmy Kimmel.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murphy |
11-05-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Joe Rogan is Not the Comedian to Mess Withnew
He has no compunction about picking high-profile feuds with those whom he feels deserve it, like Carlos Mencia.
OC Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-30-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Salsa Without Bordersnew
The popular Latin dance helps bring nations together -- one four-minute song at a time.
Pasadena Weekly |
Amy Tenowich |
10-29-2007 |
Performance
Tags: dance
The Collector of Illusionsnew
Ricky Jay is a master of cards and a historian of chicanery, and his exhibition of ancient "broadsides" is a window into the deceptions of another time.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Don Waller |
10-26-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Prepping For Fright Nightnew
It's 20 minutes till game time at "Terror Behind the Walls," the nationally ranked haunted house that raises about 60 percent of Eastern State Penitentiary's annual operating funds.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Emily Guendelsberger |
10-22-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Mort Sahl Pulls No Political Punchesnew
The stand-up legend on presidential comedy, The Daily Show and why Hillary will be the last president of the United States.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-05-2007 |
Performance
