FRESH AIR Today Terry discusses the current state of marijuana in America in the wake of voter-passed referendums in Colorado and Washington that legalize recreational marijuana use with Newsweek reporter Tony Dokoupil. In 2009, Dokoupil wrote about his drug dealer father for the Daily Beast. DAILY BEAST: I loved the car trips I took with my mom as a kid. In 1986, we climbed into a rented motor home and bolted south Florida for the mesas of New Mexico, seeing cousins and digging for Indian arrowheads in my aunt’s yard. Later we toured New England, New York, and the Southeast, […]
JUST ANNOUNCED: Wyatt Cenac @ The Troc
Daily Show funnyman Wyatt Cenac will rock The Troc January 18th. Tickets go on sale HERE Friday at noon. WIKIPEDIA: Cenac was born in New York City and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended high school in Texas at the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas.[3] He is of West Indian descent.[4][5] While in elementary school, he became friends with comic book writer Brian K. Vaughn,[6] who also introduced him to comic books. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to Los Angeles to further his career. Having previously worked for three years as a […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Lefty’s Deceiver @ Milkboy
BY JOE PAONE MATH-ROCK CORRESPONDENT There should’ve been a sign at the door of Milkboy for this show that said, “Welcome back to the 90s.” Lots of familiar faces from back in the day, yet everyone still looked fetching. Milkboy’s second-floor is so reminiscent of the long-gone Upstairs at Nick’s that I expected to see Jamie Mahon stuffing meat into a toilet. At least, I kinda remember that happening back then. Forgive me, the 90s were kind of a blur. As for the music, it was the proverbial tits. JJL opened the proceedings by molesting the notion of “power trio” […]
The Sins Of Gen. Petraeus & The Military-Media Complex
Illustration by WILLIAM BANZAI7 EDITOR’S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM A JUST-PUBLISHED BUZZFEED PIECE BY MICHAEL HASTINGS, THE NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER WHO WROTE THE RUNAWAY GENERAL, THE ROLLING STONE PIECE THAT TOOK DOWN GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL BUZZFEED: The warning signs about Petreaus’s core dishonesty have been around for years. A brief summary: we can start with the persistent questions critics have raised about his Bronze Star for Valor. Or, that in 2004, during the middle of a presidential election, Petraeus wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, supporting President Bush and saying that the Iraq policy was working. […]
BIRDLAND: Declaring War On The Fans
BY JOE PAONE IGGLES CORRESPONDENT Yesterday, my dad and I headed out on an absolutely beautiful fall afternoon to watch the Eagles commit football against our most despised rival, the evil Dallas Cowboys. We even arrived earlier than usual just to enjoy the weather, sights and sounds. We had no idea we were entering into some kind of sick, mean-spirited psychological experiment courtesy of the very team we’ve loved unconditionally for decades. I’ll always remember yesterday as the day the Eagles organization turned on its own paying customers. And it’s going to take me a long time to forgive Eagles […]
PS22 CHOIR: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
AGREGGOFSOCIETY: PS22 Chorus of 2013 does a lively acoustic cover of one of my favorite songs right now, “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” by the ultra-cool indie band TAME IMPALA! The kids only started this today at rehearsal, and did a rather amazing job considering (or NOT considering)…. . Additional props go to our new drummer Nicholas, and the phenomenal duo of Jianna & Matthew!! MORE PREVIOUSLY: TAME IMPALA “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
CONCERT REVIEW: Gary Clark Jr. @ The TLA
Photo by PETE TROSHAK Smoke and anxiety hung heavy in the air in the Theatre of Living Arts as a capacity crowd waited for Gary Clark Jr. to deliver The Blues. Once a generation this overlooked but deeply American genre produces a shining star whose undeniable brightness reaches the masses and shines a light into the darkest corners of our hearts and souls. With a palpable buzz swirling around him based on jaw-dropping live performances and his excellent Blak and Blu album, Clark just might be The One. Frequent shouts of “Gary, Gary!” rang out through the restless crowd before […]
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES: ‘Don’t Get All Potted Up’
These assclowns have never let not knowing what they are talking about stop them from doing so at length. Every day. Day after day. Here’s some pearls of wisdom on the news that Colorado voters passed a referendum last Tuesday that legalizes recreational marijuana use.
CINEMA: The Sky Is Falling
SKYFALL (2012, directed Sam Mendes, 143 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Hard to believe such a specific fantasy can maintain itself for 50 years, but secret agent “Bond, James Bond” returns, Aston Martin, shaken-not-stirred, twangy theme song and all. Skyfall, the 23rd official Bond film, makes a point of hitting every little cliché from the original series but this time it seems oddly fitting. With its apocalyptic showdown with the MI6 and an unexpected look at the roots of our trained killer, Skyfall feels like a final farewell to the character who has defined blockbuster action films […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR One chapter of the new book deals with altered states and Oliver Sacks’ personal experimentation with hallucinogenic and mind-altering drugs in the ’60s. He says the first time he tried marijuana, it induced fascinating perceptual distortion. He was looking at his hand, and it appeared to be retreating from him, yet getting larger and larger. “I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I’m strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn’t help thinking, ‘That must be what […]
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
BUSINESS INSIDER: What is Project Orca? Well, this is what [the Romney campaign] told us: Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election. Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The “massive undertaking” is true, however. It would take a lot of planning, training and coordination to be done successfully (oh, we’ll get to that in a second). This wasn’t really the GOP’s effort, it was Team Romney’s. And perhaps “unprecedented” would fit if we’re discussing failure. The entire purpose of this project was […]
MUST SEE TV: This Is Why We Voted For This Guy
Because this is how he speaks to the lowest on the totem pole. As opposed to the way Romney treats the people who worked for him.
TAME IMPALA: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Tame Impala plays a sold out show at Union Transfer tonight with The Amazing.