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By | January 01, 0001

Fall Books Preview: Reading list

Smartening up the seasonal transition
Even if you’re not back in the classroom, autumn inspires a desire to learn, to restore the intellectualism that was fried by too many beers and barbecues and sunburns. Fortunately, Portland is full this fall with opportunities to spark your smarts.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 15, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Crossword: ''It's a Tough Job''

But you totally get used to it.
But you totally get used to it.
By MATT JONES | February 24, 2010

The Funn(k)y Drummer

What's the connection between comedy and percussion?
Johnny Carson was revered for his impeccable comic timing. It was "so precise," wrote one newspaper in his obituary, "that we wouldn't be surprised to find buried in his skull a quartz crystal." And why might that be? Perhaps because Johnny Carson was a drummer. In drumming, after all, timing is everything.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 13, 2009

Funny business

Louis C.K. has work to do
"I'm pasty, pale, overweight and I have red hair. I see that Coldstone Creamery and I want to crawl inside and hide," Louis C.K. responded when I asked if he recalled just how disgustingly hot and muggy Rhode Island could be during his 4th of July headlining set at the Newport Yachting Center.
By CHRIS CONTI | July 01, 2009

Museum pieces and other pieces

Jazz Week returns, the Jazz Hall of Fame inducts, Ron Gill says bye
It's Jazz Week time again — that time when the Boston jazz community looks to expand its minority-appeal music to a larger public.
By JON GARELICK | April 21, 2009

The Big Hurt: Beef in brief

Guess whose guess-what is as raggedy as a mango seed
Ultra-classy rapper Khia, best known for urging America’s ladies to pop their anatomies and America’s men to lick her “crack,” is fixing to put me out of a job.
By DAVID THORPE | April 30, 2008

Clips ahoy

The treasures of Hulu.com
This past February, Tina Fey returned to host Saturday Night Live and announced, in mock triumph, that the Writers Guild of America had struck a deal with the studios that would pay them for on-line content.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 22, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Punch lines

Eddie Brill and the Boston Comedy Festival
A tide of laughter breaks over comedian Eddie Brill as his high-speed spiel about an antic bar pick-up recounted in a string of clichés halts.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | October 01, 2007

Potty mouth

Louis C.K. has a filthy good time
Shamelessness has finally paid off for Louis C.K.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | June 25, 2007

Not better off dead

Art Brut find their way in the post-punk world
Three years ago, London’s Art Brut debuted with a punk-rock song called “Formed a Band.”
By NICK SYLVESTER | June 12, 2007

Going on sale: April 6, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Flyleaf, Great Lake Swimmers, Elvis Costello, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | April 03, 2007

Crossword: 'Conventional labels'

They make it easier to meet and greet
They make it easier to meet and greet
By MATT JONES | July 05, 2006

Going on sale: June 16

Breaking news from the concert-ticket trade
Snow Patrol, Muse, Godsmack, Santana, Raconteurs, and the Download Festival
By WILL SPITZ | June 13, 2006

The Ballad of Greenwich Village

Perfunctory and pointless doc, but some celebs are interesting
Filmmaker Karen Kramer’s best work on The Ballad of Greenwich Village was during production, getting Norman Mailer, Maya Angelou, Richie Havens, and the ever-reticent Woody Allen to reminisce before her camera.
By GERALD PEARY | March 22, 2006

Look, Ma! No TV!

A democratic Youtube
As Internet video clips proliferate and spread like kudzu, it’s getting hard to keep up on all that’s out there just waiting to be watched.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 18, 2006