Urban Honking

Spotty French. The talented lady Shannon Wright, whose whorls of drama and unraveled piano-grappling mysteries are close to what I’d be making if I had time, has relayed to a C’n’P representative (aka ME) that, after she releases Over the Sun and tours this summer, she will fly to Frahnce to collaborate with composer Yann […]

Mary J. Blige: “more affirming than a chick flick.” More “liberating and empowering than your favorite episode of Oprah.” But wait!! Live, she is “more cathartic than a week of Oprah… like Oprah, Blige does this girlfriend-to-girlfriend thing.” (INCREDULOUS ITALICS MINE.) So, which is it, Jon Bream? And have you ever conversed with a woman […]

Only 15 more days ’til Theo Parrish reissues!

Mean Girls also depicts the inevitable, unenviable strata of alpha malehood, and how it finds home in even the least culturally “masculine” of worlds: the Mathletes. It’s worth seeing just for the aggro Mathletes captain, identified by his business card as “math captain/bad-ass M.C.,” whose raps brag that his math genius found him in the […]

Now for the real update. Mean Girls is an imperfect work, but god how I felt the distant ulcer of teen girlhood revisiting uncomfortably like a birth mom. So nasty, we ladies can be to one another, typecasting ourselves, forming identities via who reads the part with most conviction. I realize I just wrote “an […]

what a weekend. Quasi-DJed Strategy CD release on Fri.; Nice Nice keeps cauldrons of musicology inside 99-cent megaphones, which Jason spits into the little amplifier thing behind the strings, on the guitar, whose name I used to know back before I gave up guitar for the Kawai ESX digital piano. BTdubs, if anyone wants to […]

Saw live Savath and Savalas, not because certain folks think Eva is fine, nor to prove sexed-up indie boys wrong, not even because I am a fan. (Which I am.) I saw them mainly for Susie Ibarra, one of my favorite drummers pretty much ever. It was the first time I’d seen her play, outside […]

Thank God, Sasha finally made the Post for something other than chucking bar glasses at Shannen Doherty. YEAH SASHA!!!

Not to get all USA TODAY on yr asses, but this is freaking me out: does anyone else find it slightly Jolie-familia that Britney WISHED HER BROTHER “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” WEARING A GARTER BELT AND A BUSTIER? AND: Liv Tyler’s father admits in the latest Rolling Stone that he is PHYSICALLY ATTRACTED TO HER. Three pages […]

A couple tours, a full-length, and 1600 more T&G mailers from Burrelle’s have not hurt TV on the Radio’s live show. I was perched at my usual front-and-center pelican-eye magnetic dance spot; halfway through song 3, a man jitterbugging like he got the orders from God himself bulldozed into me, grabbed my arm passionately as […]