Coachella = Hotchella I’m assuming you know what a monster of a festival Coachella really is. To give you a bit of perspective, it featured 149 bands spread out over 3 days, starting roughly at noon and ending around 1 am. For the first year in its history, they put up two weekends worth of festival, [...]

David Sedaris doesn’t have to work that hard to make people laugh. At The Smith Center this week he strolled onstage and people in the audience were already chuckling. Fortunately these people were just anticipating the inevitable—Sedaris’s poignant wit, his startling and revealing humor, his ability to make everyone double over in body-shaking torrents of [...]

Performing to a packed crowd of enthusiastic fans (and passersby who just got sucked in) at the Cosmopolitan’s Book & Stage, Vintage Trouble brought down the house in a two-hour, all-out show, ‘60s dance-party style. Ty Taylor’s vocals, dancing, and crowd banter, as well as a cruise, were spot-on. And it’s hard to imagine how they all [...]

A late Sunday show at the Hard Rock Cafe began with Elizaveta and her operatic voice matched perfectly by harpsichord-like accompaniment and her all-white outfit and dramatic up do. Some fans were pretty ravenous, following her toward backstage with fervor. Afterward James finally took the stage to the great happiness of many. There were also a [...]

James Mercer is familiar with the high desert. He spent time in Albuquerque in his 20′s, forming The Shins with friends while attending the University of New Mexico. So, the unpredictable weather we often get in the spring was no biggie for The Shins frontman. With a funny comparison to Iceland aside, the Portland-based popsters [...]

Chris Leland has had his share of shit luck. Dreaming of Lions‘ newest release, “Change is a Drunk”  (National Southwestern)is an autobiographical timeline of a recent breakup, a whiskey-soaked “start-to-end album” listening experience. His songwriting seems to not only accept that black cloud following him, but embrace it. So when the PA system at The [...]

The annual Massive Spectacular charity fundraiser provides the perfect introduction to an increasingly popular and incredibly diverse dance movement commonly referred to as tribal, or tribal fusion. Tribal dance has a boundless capacity to absorb ethnic and popular culture from around the world, but it’s best known as the contemporary manifestation of belly dance. Belly [...]

The weekly challenge: delightful date night ideas for under $25 a person. In this series we get creative for you, and bring you fun ideas to break the chains of monotony and bring relief to your wallet. The Adventure: Mob & Tickle For this evening’s city exploration, we journey to the newly-minted Mob Museum, located off of [...]