Content note: This column contains mention of hazing and sexual assault. Northwestern University (NU) may not win many, or any, football games this season. But, man, when it comes to cynical acts of duplicity and deceit, they may already be the champs. Oh, where to start with the football hazing scandal that gets more scandalous […]
Tag: Barbra Streisand
Posted inTheater Review
On a clear day you can clone forever
Dr. Barbra Joan Frankenstreisand (Tyler Anthony Smith)—that ultimate hyphenate: superstar-mad scientist—has commandeered the stage at the Raven Room at Redline VR bar for what she calls a “clone-cert” to duplicate her beloved and very dead pooch. Few theater companies understand characters toeing the line between stardom and monstrousness like Hell in a Handbag Productions. Frankenstreisand, […]
Posted inTheater Review
Lookin’ swell
Hello, Dolly! is not revived that often. It only feels that way, because Jerry Herman’s score (book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder’s play The Matchmaker) is so infectious and ubiquitous, because so many larger-than-life stars have played Dolly Levi over the years—among them Carol Channing (of course), Pearl Bailey, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, […]
Posted inMusic
Genius bassist Richard Davis is so ubiquitous he’s almost invisible
I can’t rattle off a list of my most beloved guitarists, despite being a so-so guitar player myself, but I can quickly tell you my top ten bassists. One of my favorites has played with famous musicians across many genres, but most folks don’t even recognize his name. As far as I know, my first […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Buyer & Cellar explores Barbra Streisand’s (make-believe) basement shopping mall
It’s only pain and darkness there.
Posted inFilm
In A Star Is Born, love hurts, but it’s labor that breaks your heart
Stars may not seem to be working, but they are—and that’s the tragedy of this new film.
Posted inMusic
Singer-songwriter Micha on an old song for Puerto Rico’s new struggle
Current musical obsessions of singer-songwriter Micha, Half Gringa front woman Izzy Olive, and Reader staff writer Leor Galil
Posted inFood & Drink
Cocktail Challenge: Dragon fruit
Jason Cevallos of the Office unearths some rarities to add “nuances” to the flavorless dragon fruit.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Twentieth-century glamour, on auction at Leslie Hindman
“Skahzzi” gowns and other vintage clothes are going up for auction at Leslie Hindman.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Mon 1/28: Off the Record, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, January 28, 2013
Posted inBlogs
More Bad News for Major Labels
Are back-catalog albums “works for hire”? The record industry is praying the courts will see it that way. Otherwise the artists who made the music in the first place could end up with control over those cash cows.
Posted inArts & Culture
Words Fall
Adam Langer reviews Stephen Sachs’s play Sweet Nothing in My Ear.