CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Music

Sharon Van EttenEpic(Ba Da Bing) There’s something about Sharon Van Etten’s voice that bleeds European, like a thick ichor of mead flowing from the pierced heart of an injured goddess. In fact, she’s quite American, and there are noticeable traces of...
Nightcrawler: Shine On

Nightcrawler: Shine On

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Music

How do you spend the down time between the culmination of a nearly three-year tour behind the best-selling disc of your career and entering the studio to record the next? If you’re the Florida-based foursome Shinedown, you offer your fans “Anything and...
Nightcrawler: An Experienced Musician

Nightcrawler: An Experienced Musician

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Music

Most people would probably never forget the sight of Jimi Hendrix walking through their front door—guitar in one hand, all his worldly possessions in a bag in the other—pausing only to say, “Hi, I’m Jimi. Thank you for letting me stay at your...

The Ties That Bind

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Leisure, The V-Spot

After last week’s column, you and your partner are ready to get spicy. As one of the most common and multifaceted fetishes, you may be considering BDSM (bondage and discipline/domination and submission/sadism and masochism). Despite what many believe, BDSM is...
CinemaDope: String Theory

CinemaDope: String Theory

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Film

Sometime last year I stumbled across the work of Kate Micucci, a young actress and comedian who also performs original songs as half of the satiric musical duo Garfunkel and Oates. Onscreen, she has a odd but striking presence, her otherwise diminutive features marked...