CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Music

Wild BeastsSmother(Domino) Not since Morrissey has a singer been able to deliver bon mots like “I would lie anywhere with you/ any old bed of nails would do” as convincingly as the Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe. However, using his operatic croon to sing such...

Riding the Crimson Wave

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Leisure, The V-Spot

Great sex is peppered with a lot of punctuation—slow, seductive “dot, dot, dots,” hyphens for sexual meldings like “girl-on-girl” or “penis-to-booty” and, hopefully, lots of exclamation points!!! But the punctuation mark many...
CinemaDope: The Full Monty

CinemaDope: The Full Monty

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Film

We Americans are proud of our revolutionary birth. To celebrate, we shoot off fireworks and parade through the streets; we let infants hold sparklers and we grill enough meat to strike panic in the hearts of cardiologists. Car prices are slashed, banks are closed,...
Food: Give Me No Lip

Food: Give Me No Lip

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Food + Booze

My brother has a pint glass that I covet. On the rare occasions that he lets me drink from it, I swear the beer tastes better. It’s the general shape of an ordinary pint glass, but its profile is somewhere between the straight-sided American glass and the...
The Madama Mystique

The Madama Mystique

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Arts

Meet the Madama, in her multiple manifestations. “Madamas: Women, Madonnas, and Mothers” looks at images of Black women in Caribbean art, as shown in paintings, batiks, dolls and photographs. The figure of the Madama, says exhibition curator Waleska...