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These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus in downtown Oakland, California, with no sign to...
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It took most of the fall and countless e-mails and phone calls, but the staff of the Art Car Museum has more than succeeded in tracking down and rounding up works by the...
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Bobbindoctrin's 6th Annual Puppet Festival has lots of fist-up-the-rear-end action. (Puppets, people, puppets.) Along with tabletop hand puppetry, the local collective's...
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Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo is not so much an acquired taste as he is an unknown quantity, at least outside of art houses and specialized venues for the cinematic...
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Perhaps the ugliest stretch of road in the world - believe it or not, even I-45 pales in comparison to its incomparable urban blight - the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, devised...
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It was just two years ago that Marin Alsop took over the helm at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The classical music world took note for two reasons. First, because in doing...
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Think the season for reveling is over? Not at the Jewish Community Center's 30th annual Dance Month. They'll kick off the monthlong schedule of performances and presentations...
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Mary Karr wasn't exactly itching to pen her latest memoir, Lit. The renowned Texas novelist/poet has voiced how frustrating the writing process can be in interviews with Salon...
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It's not quite correct to call the New Orleans-based artist Keith Perelli a painter: To create the abstract, nature-infused portraits in his new exhibition "Empathy, Recent...
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Gerald LaBita, producing artistic director of Theatre LaB, knows a good thing when he sees it. "Fifteen years ago, we were the second theater ever to produce The Vagina...
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Imagine Garrison Keillor without the irony, and you get some idea of what talk radio in small-town Minnesota sounds like, at least according to Phil Olson's KOLD Radio,...
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Mention the homeless and most people envision a scraggly man standing at an intersection with a homemade sign that says, “Will work for food.” Sure, that’s one...
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Make moviegoing a real family affair at Kid Toons: Winter Day Dreams. Group sing-alongs, giveaways, music videos and cartoon shorts precede an animated film, the centerpiece...
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Art made from chainsaw, blowtorches and ice? Must be time for the annual Magnificent 7 Ice Carving Competition at Discovery Green. Ice artists from across the country come to...
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Saturdays are usually pretty good, but this Saturday promises to be even better with a live transmission of Der Rosenkavalier , a performance that’s part of the...
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Three things you can expect at any Patti -LaBelle concert: One, she’s going to kick off her high heels sometime during the first half of the show. (If you’re in the...
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CRIME
Gay-Basher Denied Parole Again
Last of The Woodlands 10 stays behind bars
By John Nova Lomax
The parole of Jon Buice, the last incarcerated member of the so-called...
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Commitment Problems
Online readers comment on "Holiday Madness," by Margaret Downing, December 24:
A good alternative: So people are involuntarily committed, if they are a...
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"Follow my lead / Do as I say, not as I do / Follow my lead / Mayday, mayday" — South Park Mexican, "Follow My Lead," The Purity Album (2000)
If you were an 18-year-old...
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It feels a little foolhardy to even attempt to sum up the decade just past in a few paragraphs. For us, if the '00s were 3,653 days long (remember those leap years), that...
