Blogs
Work as Play
On the first leg of my vacation flight – New Orleans to Houston – I finished Geeta Dayal’s Another Green World, her entry in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series. As […]
Two for One
MTV made sure no viewers of The City were confused when they paired a scene with stylishly dressed young women walking down a catwalk with the Vettes’ “Walk Like Models.” […]
Shaft’s Long Shadow
Much the same way that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez mimicked 1970s B-movies in Grindhouse, the new Black Dynamite takes pains to evoke the classic blaxploitation film, down to the […]
Maybe Interweb Critics Were Right
If this is the best the blogosphere can muster as a critique of Christmas music, then maybe the luddites are on to something: I happened to tune in to a […]
Starstruck
In another blog post, I started thinking about Big Star, whose Keep an Eye on the Sky box set does nothing to address my thoughts on the band. As great […]
Grades, Stars and Treble Clefs
Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein’s NPR blog, Monitor Mix, ranges from really smart to uninteresting prompts for reader response. What comes up on your iPod? What song can change your […]
A New Orleans Tradition
This event has become so big it gets its own press release: Cash Money Records Co-CEOs and founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams have never forgotten their roots […]
First Signs of Trouble
After Monday’s blog post about CECI, one commenter responded: When two days after the announcement you get a double barrel assault from both the IG and James Gill blasting the […]
More on CECI
A few disconnected thoughts after yesterday’s press conference for the Center for Entertainment and Creative Arts (CECI): – It feels unkind to raise doubts about it because if it happens, […]
The New All-Purpose Everything
At lunch time, Dooky Chase’s was a circus. There were drummers out front and Lenny Kravitz, Irvin Mayfield and Mayor C. Ray Nagin inside. To make the scene properly surreal, […]
