AltWeeklies Wire
Dave Attell Rips Hecklers and Kills with Jokes About Horse Sexnew
He is one of the dirtiest, riskiest and funniest comedians on the scene today. But if you ask Dave Attell what he's trying to be, he says he's just trying to be funny -- dirty and risky are by-products.
New Haven Advocate |
Erin Lynch |
09-16-2008 |
Performance
This Little Undergroundnew
Local trio Basements of Florida is the latest intelligent rock band worth real attention (Aug. 29, Taste). Comprising only drums and dueling bass guitars, they powered through songs that were propulsive and dynamic.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
09-05-2008 |
Performance
Garage Days Revisitednew
In the few buzz-heavy months that Black Box Collective has been open, the volunteer-run "community space," one of four warehouses on artist Robin Van Arsdol's compound, has booked night after night of interesting, even adventurous, punk, hardcore and hip-hop shows, and their future plans are fittingly daring.
Orlando Weekly |
Daniel Alba |
09-05-2008 |
Performance
Orlando Rapper Terrence King and the Divine Hustlenew
King's been kicking around the local minor league of rap for over a decade, self-releasing hip-hop CDs he makes at his house. He presents himself as a rapper who could live a life of girls, drugs and fame, but chooses to walk the straight and narrow instead.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
09-04-2008 |
Performance
The Dream Nation Marching Unit Does It For The Kidsnew
Dream Nation members refer to themselves as a "community band," part of a long tradition of self-sufficient marching bands in the African-American community that operate on a volunteer basis and raise their own funding independently.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
09-02-2008 |
Performance
Kate Watson-Wallace Throws Dance Theater into Overdrive with 'Car'new
A 2007 Pew Fellow in choreography and director of one of the most anticipated shows of this year’s Live Arts Festival, Watson-Wallace became a rising star of modern dance by dropping out of school and discovering that Philadelphia is a cool place for a young, stubborn and broke-as-a-joke dancer to land.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
08-25-2008 |
Performance
Comedian Lewis Black Takes on His One-time Hometownnew
Black's come a long way since those first days, the earliest of which include living and working in Colorado Springs for a year. Black, who grew up in Maryland, ran a theater company that worked at Palmer High School, Fort Carson and a couple prisons.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
08-19-2008 |
Performance
How Far Would You Go to Get a Free Lesson at an Arthur Murray Dance Studio?new
The ins and outs of Arthur Murray's promotions are the expertise of an area woman who frequents the free online dating site OKCupid. The woman goes by the username "Fieldofdaffodil" and also deploys flowery prose to lure prospective mates on the web.
Washington City Paper |
Arin Greenwood |
08-18-2008 |
Performance
Revenge of the Outcastsnew
In the Internet Age, when everything is democratized, the Fringe Festival is the performance equivalent of blogs: anyone can put up something, leaving it to the audience to be final editor.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
08-14-2008 |
Performance
The End of Deliberate Ugliness: How to reclaim the historic role of art in expressing spiritualitynew
Gail Sickel was searching in the 1970s, a dynamic period still roiling with the social and political upheavals of the decade before. The United States was still sunk in the quagmire of a foreign war. Coming of age amid this influence of anxiety, Sickel was part of a boom of young, idealistic Americans searching for new ways to express spirituality.
"I was looking for oneness," she says, reflecting on that time. "I was a seeker and eventually I found an experience that was heart-focused."
That experience was the Dances of Universal Peace.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
08-13-2008 |
Performance
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Bill Maher: Pointing Out the Truth
The comedian talks about religion, television and why Obama's going to win.
NUVO |
Marc D. Allan |
08-08-2008 |
Performance
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Eddie Izzard Takes off His Dressnew
Scheduled for five nights at the Kodak, comedian talks Bible Belt, Napoleon, spelunking and the future of The Riches.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-01-2008 |
Performance
Neil Patrick Harris Stuns as a Signing Supervillian in Joss Whedon's Online Musicalnew
Academy Award–nominated writer Joss Whedon (Toy Story) has a way with words. As pointed out in the PBS documentary Do You Speak American?, Whedon’s legendary TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “challenged linguistic taboos and introduced new words and phrases in nearly every show.”
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-31-2008 |
Performance
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Draw-A-Thon Invades the Whitney, Lays Siege to the Met for No Reason Whatsoevernew
A few minutes after the Whitney Museum opened its doors for pay-what-you-will admission this past Friday, six half-naked, masked, paint-splattered men and women were checked smiling through museum security to writhe, pose and hand out flyers on the floor to unsuspecting culture tourists in the name of ... nothing.
New York Press |
Ben Lasman |
07-31-2008 |
Performance
Renaissance Man Jeff Daniels on His Plays, Music and His Upcoming Appearance in Detroitnew
Actor, playwright, activist, musician and proud Michigander, Jeff Daniels, keeps his creative plate full. His newest play, Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid, is currently running at The Purple Rose. But this week he also comes to the Detroit Film Theater for a special engagement, performing for one night only with Sigourney Weaver in A.R. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Love Letters.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
07-29-2008 |
Performance
