Email Author Craig D. Lindsey

2006 Stories by Craig D. Lindsey

• Through Thicke and Tim

  published November 23, 2006

  Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake need to stop meeting like this. People are starting to get suspicious. Ever since in-demand pop songwriter... More >>

• It's Your Birthday

  published August 17, 2006

  Don't ask KPFT DJ Rad Rich how old he'll be this week. "I don't answer that question," says the host of Rad Rich's Rock and Roll Revue.... More >>

• Get Your Flirt On

  published July 27, 2006

  When I heard that Nelly Furtado flew to the top of the Billboard album charts with her third album, Loose, I knew it was official --... More >>

• The Essence of Soul

  published June 29, 2006

  When club/party promoters start referring to a weekend as Essence Festival Weekend, you know it's a big deal. And it is a big deal having the... More >>

• School of Old School

  published June 15, 2006

  Don't expect a lecture at this weekend's "The Lesson Part Won: From Bebop to Hip Hop." For one thing, what lecture has ever popped off on a... More >>

• DJ Chicken George

  published May 25, 2006

  For those who miss the shit out of DJ Chicken George from back when he used to share record-spinning duties with DJ Sun and DJ Melodic on KPFT's... More >>

• Jamie Cullum

  published May 11, 2006

  Jamie Cullum seems like a nice, cute kid. With his shaggy-dog hair and baby-faced mug, he looks a bit like George from Grey's Anatomy. But... More >>

• Eliot Lipp

  published April 20, 2006

  I guess you have to be on a wide-open dance floor, wearing pants 15 sizes too big, zonked out on Red Bull and youthful abandon, making out with... More >>

• Van Hunt

  published April 13, 2006

  What the fuck is Van Hunt doing, man? His new album, On the Jungle Floor, is just as unclassifiable as his 2004 self-titled debut. The... More >>

• Dolemite Is Dynamite!

  published March 30, 2006

  Rudy Ray Moore wants some respect, and he wants it, like, yesterday. The man perhaps most famous for the ´70s low-low-low-budget... More >>

• Back and Black

  published March 16, 2006

  Thousands of black people left behind after a ravaging hurricane. Daily reports of high crime. Police brutality in inner-city neighborhoods. Damn,... More >>

• Same As It Never Was

  published February 9, 2006

  Editor's note: The Nightfly column is undergoing a bit of a face-lift. As befits any true fly, we have decided to adopt a "compound eye"... More >>

• Goapele

  published February 9, 2006

  To paraphrase an old Eddie Murphy joke, Goapele is such a beautiful woman, she makes you all ugly in the face when you look at her. But, as the... More >>

• Straight-Up DysFunktional

  published February 9, 2006

  At 37, comedian Eddie Griffin is honest about many things. He's honest about doing those Deuce Bigalow movies for the money. (Thank... More >>

• William the Conqueror

  published February 2, 2006

  When moviegoers delve into the pantheon of revolutionary, uncompromising, maverick filmmakers, the obvious names materialize: Peckinpah, Kubrick,... More >>

• Iran Around

  published January 19, 2006

  Those who think Iranian cinema begins and ends with Abbas Kiarostami should swing by the Iranian Film Festival, which offers plenty... More >>

• Still Skinny

  published January 12, 2006

  After more than 70 years, The Thin Man is still a great movie to watch for this simple reason: It shows a couple actually getting... More >>