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'Friday Night Lights': 'The game you're going to talk about' (Los Angeles Times) 08 January 2009After viewing episodes 12 and 13, the show proves a fourth season is deserved.
Judging an Elusive Artist by His Distinctive Covers (New York Times) 07 January 2009Barney Bubbles?s lusciously witty artwork for bands like Hawkwind and Elvis Costello and the Attractions has made him a hero to young designers.
Japanese Retailers Find a Market in New York (Washington Post) 07 January 2009With its large Japanese expat population and thousands of Japanese American residents, New York has long offered sushi restaurants and karaoke bars. More recently, the popularity of high-end design and funky pop culture from the Land of the Rising Sun and the Sinking Yen has brought a variety of ...
My curiosity of a starving artists show is now assuaged (OnMilwaukee.com) 05 January 2009Fortunately, my wife shares my appreciation for kitsch, and while we set our sights incredibly low, we finally took the plunge and attended a starving artists show this weekend at the Brookfield Sheraton Hotel.
Restaurant critic review: Smoky's more than a name for barbecue (TCPalm.com) 07 January 2009It's called Smoky's BBQ & Grill, and the name fits. Everything is saturated with the slightly bitter taste of oak, right down to the chicken wings ($4.19) -- voted best in town by readers of the Port St. Lucie News.
Low-budget dreams (Las Vegas CityLife) 06 January 2009PLASTIC hula hoops that double as time-travel machines. A big-headed, lobster-clawed monster named Gary. Go-go-booted vixens from the planet Utaryis (pronounced "uterus," get it?) who apply colanders to the heads of their male enemies in order to read their minds. If all this sounds like a really fun and intentionally "bad" sci-fi B movie, that's because it is. Directed by low-budget filmmaker ...
The New Frontier Lounge: Life in the hip lane (Tacoma News Tribune) 06 January 2009Lifelong Tacomans quickly home in on the sign looming over the showroom. “New Frontier Lanes Restaurant” it reads, its wanly flickering neon harking to an era when sock hops and poodle skirts were all the rage.
Katy Perry fills music’s ‘quirky girl’ void (Lawrence Journal-World) 04 January 2009Don’t get Katy Perry twisted: She absolutely loves being pop’s quirky poster girl, the wild child who doesn’t censor herself and causes raised eyebrows with songs like “Ur So Gay” and “I Kissed a Girl.” But for all her success over the last year, Perry is hoping that songs like her most recent No. 1, “Hot n Cold,” show she has more to offer than kitsch and controversy.
Save showgirl, save Vegas (The Desert Sun) 05 January 2009A place that rarely preserves its past is now trying to preserve its pasties.
Defiance: Beyond Holo-kitsch (Time Magazine) 01 January 2009The tale of the Bielski brothers shows that not all Jews were victims of the Holocaust. Some were warriors