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SAT 10/16
Whether promoting a "scorching drama of the most un-talked-about subject of our time" (1961's Victim) or trumpeting the "strange loves ... of those who live and...
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Circumnavigator. Dan Hoyle circled the globe on a grant two years ago from the Chicago-based Circumnavigators Club, using its money to develop a piece of "journalistic...
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Charmin' Harmon
For the right fee, we'd teach your kids anything: Just wanted to let you know that I thought your article on infiltrating the manners class ["Mr. Manners,"...
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As much as you may hate to admit it, Fatboy Slim is a genius. From his own sampledelic songs to his slamming remixes, the British producer has an uncanny knack for making...
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It would be so easy to titter and scoff at Shall We Dance?, a Miramaxed-out version of the 1996 Japanese film of the same name, which told of a bored businessman who is...
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SUN 10/17
The California Marathon Roadskating Championships ain't your grandmother's roller derby, though technically she could participate: This fun, fast dash is open to...
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Over the past decade, Tom Waits has developed a tripartite personality: There's the surrealist cabaret singer of The Black Rider, the sorrowful lounge act that has taken a...
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Let's just get the term out of the way up front. The term is "fag hag" -- and a thousand pardons, sensitive readers, but there is no PC equivalent. This new film, Stage...
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FRI-SUN 10/15-17
My aunt owns hundreds of Hummel figurines. My mom buys a Christmas ornament in every town she visits. And me, well, I keep adding to the jar of my cat's...
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Next to the Red Sox and Adlai Stevenson, in the yet-to-be-built (in Oakland, naturally) Underdog Hall of Fame, would be the Replacements: the mythic least-successful and...
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A parody of Gerry Anderson marionette shows (like Thunderbirds and Joe 90), Jerry Bruckheimer action movies, and the '80s cartoon/toy line M.A.S.K. , Team America: World...
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SAT 10/16
It took a few hard spankings to give Mollena Williams her epiphany. Back in the 1990s, she was involved in a torrid affair that set off her feminist alarm bells....
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I am a pussy. There's no way around this fact, and no better way to state it. I have, however, taken one or two short walks on the wild side. There was that time, for example,...
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Outside Tinseltown, not everyone may be aware of the Hollywood Forever cemetery, which specializes in memorializing lives via a process the franchise owners call...
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I remember a few scattered things about my one and only trip to Las Vegas in July of 1997. First, the heat was more stifling than three Baby Jessicas trapped in a well....
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Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr1@mindspring.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is...
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For alternarockers the world over, one of the most despised aspects of the pop/rock mainstream was the "singer/songwriter," as that signified despised sensitivos like James...
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In this year's "hot" issue, Rolling Stone named Buck 65 "hot indie rapper." As usual, Rolling Stone doesn't know dick. As Buck 65 (aka Richard Terfry) will be the first to...
