So says New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who issued the following statement after Al Sharpton criticized the cartoon—which appears in today’s Post—to the Associated Press: “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut,” said editor-in-chief Col Allan. “It broadly mocks Washington’s […]
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Believe it or Not, Chuck Norris is Not All That Intelligent
Case in point: Mr. Norris’ Prop 8 op-ed for Townhall.com. There were many of us who passionately opposed Obama, but you don’t see us protesting in the streets or crying “unfair.” Rather, we are submitting to a democratic process and now asking how we can support “our” president. Just because we don’t like the election […]
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Cindy McCain vs. The View
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain blasted The View on Saturday for attacking her and her husband in an interview last Friday… “I don’t know if any of you saw The View yesterday, they picked our bones clean,” Cindy said at Saturday’s 119th annual Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, ABC News […]
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One Man Live!
McRorie’s Solo Supergroup
McRorie Sat July 16 Memorial Coliseum 300 Winning Way At first it was hard to believe: Listed alongside Le Tigre as an opening act for Portland’s Beck show was McRorie, a name many have recently come to revere through the magic of the internet. Thanks to widespread blog buzz, the “McRorie–One Man Live!” website (www.mcrorie.net) […]
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Come, All Ye Faithful
I’m old enough to remember when Michael Jackson was an artist. In the early 1980s, after a string of hits as the lead singer for the Jackson 5, the adult Jackson accomplished the unprecedented: transforming himself from child star into an international superstar of historic proportions–the most successful solo artist in music history. But to […]
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The Girl’s Got Legs
PJ Harvey Continues To Kick History’s Ass
PJ Harvey Fri Oct 29 Roseland 8 NW 6th Over 13 years and eight releases, Polly Jean Harvey has moved far beyond the head of the class she’s fronted since Kurt went boom and Courtney went crazy. Having distinguished herself as an artist of rare talent and ambition the minute she took herself public, Harvey’s […]
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21st Century Foxes
Scissor Sisters’ Peerless Perv-Pop
Scissor Sisters Fri July 23 Berbati’s Pan 10 SW 3rd Nobody hypes like the British press, which greeted the debut LP by New York City’s Scissor Sisters like the Second Coming. With gushing reviews in such reliable rags as NME and Uncut, I was wary. Were the Scissor Sisters–a ragtag band of thrift-store fashionistas purveying […]
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God Bless Dogville
Lars von Trier’s Awesome American Nightmare
Dogville dir. von Trier Opens Fri April 23 Cinema 21 Among the cornucopia of charges leveled at Lars von Trier after the Cannes premiere of his last film, Dancer in the Dark–2000’s nouveau musical in which a blind immigrant in the 1940s Pacific Northwest is driven to kill then executed by the state–was the priggish […]
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Suburban Bovary
Jennifer Aniston is The Good Girl
The Good Girl dir. Miguel Arteta Opens Fri Aug 16 Various Theaters When it comes to deep, dark cinematic comedy–the kind that makes you want to laugh and weep and squirm out of your skin at the same time–Miguel Arteta and Mike White have cornered the market. 2000’s Chuck & Buck found the director/writer team […]
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Bring on the Pain!
Learning from the Oscars
“Pain is instructive.” These words come from a friend of mine–a rational, intelligent man who can imagine no greater joy in life than being placed in a leather body bag, his head in a vise, while a fellow SM diehard flogs him with a cat-o’-nine-tails. Me, I’m an old-fashioned guy who takes pleasure in pleasure, […]
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What’s Up With The Midgets?
The Hot New Rock Accessory
It started last month with a Kid Rock video. I’d been out of the radio-and-MTV loop for years, contenting myself with records and live shows, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. “Is that a midget?” “Yeah,” said my channel co-surfer. “Kid Rock’s got a midget.” Like it was no big deal, like “Kid Rock’s got […]
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Classix Made E-Z!
All You Need to Know About All You Need to Know
Pullout: “We’re Geeks and We Know It” Music Issue