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Apollo Theater

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    Executive Entertainers: America's Most Musical Presidents

    Big-money supporters were treated to the first indelible moment in Barack Obama's reelection campaign last Thursday when the President crooned the opening lyric from Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" from the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem. It was just the sort of off-the-cuff instance that c ... More >>

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    December 21, 2011

    Comedy Open Mike Monday at Sherlock's

    ​The bathroom attendant at Sherlock's singing along to this song on the radio while I used the urinal was one of the more intimate non-sexual moments of my year so far. Here I was trying to piss, and there he was, earnestly expressing himself by the sink and waiting to hand me a paper towel. A ... More >>

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    November 11, 2010

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    July 9, 2010

    Colin Hay Is Still A Man At Work

    ​Though best known as the frontman of iconic and infectious '80s group Men at Work ("Who Can It Be Now?" "Down Under," "Overkill," "It's a Mistake"), for over 20 years Colin Hay has forged a newer identity as a singer-songwriter to a growing fanbase less likely to yell out "Vegemite Sandwich!" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Aftermath: New York Dolls & Black Joe Lewis at the House Of Blues

    Photos by Daniel Kramer Aftermath is not going to purport to know what the New York Dolls were like live, in their Thundered and Killer-ed heyday of kitsch and campy kiss-offs. We weren't even in Pre-K when Buster Poindexter was singing "Hot Hot Hot" on Saturday Night Live. But for chrissakes ... More >>

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    July 31, 2003

    Up Close and Personal

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    May 23, 2002

    Moby Pick

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    February 15, 2001

    Dead on Arrival

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    July 27, 2000

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    October 14, 1999

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    August 12, 1999

    Houston Highwayman

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    June 24, 1999

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    April 22, 1999

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    February 12, 1998

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    October 23, 1997

    Press Picks

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    May 15, 1997

    Soul Survivor

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    September 12, 1996

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    Four decades after his first record, Solomon Burke is still in the studio -- and still in God's arms

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    February 1, 1996

    Bo Knows

    Four decades after his first record, Solomon Burke is still in the studio -- and still in God's arms

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