Nine Inch Nails, with Bauhaus and Peaches at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 7 Traffic and the uphill death march to Verizon’s grounds kept us from seeing much of Peaches’ set, although a chick who used to sport a beard (in the age of electrolysis!) and spouts verbal porn isn’t......
Friday, June 30 Sultans of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief 6 features Max Amini, Irish Bahr, Elham Jazab, Aron Kader, Lory Tatoulian and Peter Shahriari — comedians of Arab, Israeli, Persian and Armenian heritage — teaming up for a night of politically and socially edgy humor to ease the Judeo-Arab-Christian-Scientological......
Morrissey . Ringleader of the Tormentors . Sanctuary The really great, excellent, fantastic news is Morrissey’s yodeling again. Why did Morrissey stop yodeling? You can’t have enough of Morrissey yodeling. We got a fever for the yodeling, like on the live version of the Smiths’ “What She Said” — when......
Instead of the musty smell of old novels, one is more likely to get a whiff of cigarette smoke rising from the back of Abril Books, where owner Harout Yeretzian sits flicking his ashes into a coffee cup, surrounded by “No Smoking” signs. A bespectacled man with salt-and-pepper hair and......
As part of the Museum of Television and Radio’s William S. Paley Festival at the Directors Guild of America, cast and crew members of The Golden Girls — including two of its stars, Rue McClanahan and Betty White, show creator Susan Harris and executive producer Paul Junger Witt — screened......
If your closet is bursting at the seams with dust-collecting clothes that fit 20 pounds ago, there’s a simpler way of getting dough for your duds than advertising them on eBay or the sad shrubbery in front of your apartment building. Many of the vintage stores that dot our city......
Depeche Mode Staples Center, Nov. 21 If we knew we were gonna be listening to the sound of our own voices the entire night we might’ve stayed home, or in the car. But who are we kidding? That’s one of the guarantees at a Depeche Mode show — you will......
Photos by Michael PowersLast month, San Fernando hosted its seventh annual Menudo Festival, a four-day event of cheap carny rides, warm churros and kettle corn, street merchants peddling everything from fake Mayan artwork to silver jewelry to handout sheets of homes for sale in the neighborhood (even in this largely......
Photos by Wild Don Lewis The Count, his virginal brides; he’s dead, he’s not dead, he’s dead, he’s not dead — okay, we got “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” out of the way. Yes, Bauhaus played the ticking, tapping, and the foreboding bass line of the greatest post-punk epic ever written, but......
Last summer’s Live 8 was a bittersweet reminder of the original Live Aid, and that fateful moment back in 1985 when Queen so rightfully reclaimed its throne: The wife beater, the gay mustache, the baseless mike stand, the Nazi-esque overhead clapping — it was all as iconic as Elvis karate-kicking......
