I haven’t bought a new suit since I was 12. The last time I went to a wedding, it was in a suit I got from a thrift store for $7, and it looked pretty …
September 19, 2019
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Stylist Michael Burton: find a good tailor at Picasso Tailoring and Nick’s Tailor Shop
Amadeus: The victor is Mozart’s music
If a show is only as good as its villain, then Amadeus is a great show. The title might refer to Mozart, but the show opens and closes with Salieri, the villain. The play, by …
September 19, 2019
Jim Carroll: the American Arthur Rimbaud
Love Story The penalty for desertion is death by a firing squad. I’m saving you this trouble enclosed is a pistol. loaded with only one bullet. squeeze the trigger once. perhaps nothing will happen. but …
September 19, 2019
Blue Jay Lodge: right out of Davy Crockett!
These places! They all look right out of Davy Crockett! Where we’re heading is this 1919 lodge 6000 feet up on Mount Laguna, 100 years old this year, actually serving nosh and hauling grog up …
September 19, 2019
The Barbra Streisand of rock
It can be hard to take Lenny Kravitz seriously. It didn’t help that, straight out of the gate, the first thing most of us heard about him in the late ‘80s (when he was still …
September 19, 2019
The Sound of Silence “muted” by Peter Sarsgaard’s strained expression
Director and co-writer Michael Tyburski’s The Sound of Silence is, fittingly enough, a quiet film. In telling the story of a room tuner — a man who solves his clients’ problems by identifying dissonant sounds …
September 19, 2019
Titus Andronicus enlist Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould as producer of An Obelisk
Titus Andronicus is in the midst of a 63-date North American tour that has brought the band to cities that don’t often fall in the path of traveling rock acts. Besides the usual stops such …
September 19, 2019
Mr. Oro’s and Zebra Knight’s rap battle collaboration
Mr. Oro sells his El Sacrificio De Oro CDs and Oro Wear brand clothing to Americans at the Tijuana/San Ysidro Port of Entry as they return to the U.S. “Here in Tijuana it’s a lot …
September 19, 2019