By Randall Roberts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a
remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and
researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics,
technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans.
Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and
gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy
has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency,
and i
(Aziz Ansari by Seth Olenick)Aziz Ansari (w/ Nick Kroll)Friday, Jan. 23, 2009Punch LineBetter than: "Rollerblading" What better way to spend a Friday night than laughing until you're all teared up like a baby? I mean, yeah, it's great when you leave the Great American talking about some kick ass band really tightening up its live show. But you know you've had a memorable start to the weekend when, in reference to the night before, your date texts you, "Grab that giraffe by the neck, Randy"
"Toy Maker" by James Jean
The first solo show of James Jean's art is currently underway at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. His work is stunning, and from the looks of it the show is pretty much sold out. He does have few prints from said exhibit over on his site, and the Levine Gallery has released prints from two of the larger pieces in the show. The print featured here is 22 x 42 1/2 inches on photo rag paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 50. The original was 41x90, so the pr
Shane King could've been a just another civil engineer with discerning music taste. Instead he said, "Physics can suck it" and followed his burgeoning radio DJ gigs up with public DJ gigs on the dancefloors. Now he's one of the city's electro tastemakers, running the production company Hacksaw Entertainment (after working with Blasthaus) and hitting the decks often himself. Tonight King reigns over filthy-mouthed rappers at Dirt, a nasty little party he's DJing at Madrone. Since you won't be abl
