Street-Smart Handel

Street-Smart Handel

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Music

You can bet that when the first Handel opera to be produced in the United States was staged in Northampton in 1928, there wasn’t a shopping cart on stage. Nor is it likely that one singer was costumed in gleaming festoons of cans. So what do shopping carts, cans...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Music

Garland JeffreysThe King of In Between(Luna Park) Garland Jeffreys’ visual image shouts more “Whitey on the Moon” than “Puerto Rican girls just dyin’ to meetcha,” so the direction of his new album took me by surprise. While it does...
Woody Walks the Wire

Woody Walks the Wire

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Music

For decades after Woody Guthrie’s death in 1967, his children didn’t believe that any recordings of the legendary folk singer’s solo concerts had survived. In 2001, though, 80-year-old Paul Braverman found two recording reels deep in his closet. They...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Music

The Mountain GoatsAll Eternals Deck(Merge) Recent Mountain Goats releases are themed, but there’s no concept to All Eternals Deck beyond the song titles being three words long. This freed up John Darnielle to unleash one of his strongest batches of songs. His...

Need a Hand?

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Leisure, The V-Spot

The hand job is like blow job’s annoying cousin you have to hang out with sometimes. It doesn’t have any real fans. You won’t see many HJs in pornos whispering the phrase, “Hey, baby—how about a nice hand job for your birthday?” Why...