Girl Talk “Night Ripper” ILLEGAL ART (Out Of 5) Pittsburgh DJ Girl Talk’s new album, “Night Ripper,” is to dance parties what tequila is to a quiet night: a bombastic catalyst. Read more...
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August 6, 9:00 pm
Soundbites: Girl Talk
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August 6, 9:00 pm
Booking a future
New York City music club The Bottom Line opened its doors in 1974 with a jam session between Dr. John, Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winters. Twenty-nine years later, the club’s landowners at New York University deemed it “undervalued real estate” and The Bottom Line, which has hosted luminaries from nearly every genre of music, was forced to close its doors for the final time at the end of 2003. Read more...
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July 30, 9:00 pm
Soundbites: New York Dolls
New York Dolls “One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This” ROAD RUNNER RECORDS (Out Of 5) After 30 years, a revamped lineup of the New York Dolls has released a third studio album, “One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This,” an effort that puts to rest omnipresent accusations of the band’s poor musicianship but fails to capture the attitude that made the Dolls icons. Read more...
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July 30, 9:00 pm
Jazz events feature notables
Kenny Burrell lives and breathes jazz. Since his first recording with Dizzy Gillespie in 1951, he has become one of jazz’s most popular and sought-after guitarists. Read more...
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July 30, 9:00 pm
Jump-stating architecture
Fast-paced, intense, highly competitive ““ and unprepared. Without an undergraduate architecture major at UCLA, such is the life of many graduate students entering UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Read more...
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July 30, 9:00 pm
[Online Exclusive]: Soundbites: Sufjan Stevens
“The Avalanche” Sufjan Stevens ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS (Out Of 5) If you haven’t already jumped off the Sufjan Stevens bandwagon, there isn’t a better time than now. Read more...
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July 26, 9:00 pm
SCREEN SCENE: "Clerks II"
"Clerks II" MGM Director: Kevin Smith Few directors are as popular among the college crowd as Kevin Smith. His movies appeal to twenty-something guys the same way that "Gilmore Girls" appeals to high school girls: The bubble they take place in is a male geek wet dream, in which everyone talks the way we’d all like to if we were wittier, members of the opposite sex act pretty much exactly how we would want them to, and the topics of the day almost always hover around those two issues so vitally important to young people – relationships and pop culture. Read more...