Air America’s Sweetheart
Since Rachel Maddow hit airwaves with her eponymous show on Air America in 2004, the former Rhodes Scholar has become one busy politico. Listeners can hear the 35-year-old California native play part logician and part devil’s advocate in the plum listening hours of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Monday through Friday on XM Satellite […]
Smoking Gun
Pistolera is a NYC-based band that defines the latin alt-folklorico genre. Drawing from traditional styles of Mexican music and fusing it with pop-rock sensibility, the electrifying quartet features Spanish lyric songs of vocalist and guitarist Sandra Lilia Velasquez, the driving accordion melodies of Maria Elena and the unbeatable rhythm section of bassist Inca B. Satz […]
Lipstick Lesbians In The City
This week in the Village Voice, we discover that femme lesbians are running rampant in New York City. Thanks in part to a couple of new parties (such as Eden and Showstopper), the influence of new promoters, as well as the success of The L Word. No longer do lesbians have to sport the regulatory […]
Heterosexual Propaganda And The City
I emerged from the darkened cinema after watching the new film version of “Sex and the City” feeling just as beaten-over-the-head with heterosexual propaganda as “Mr. Big” was with white roses. Yes, the relationships between the primary four white women (plus the new addition of Carrie’s black personal assistant — a comforting, mammy-like portrayal by […]
Cycling Around Town
The weather has been lovely in New York City and the notion of getting on that treadmill or bike at the gym is not so appealing. I do have to speed up on my cardio before the swimsuit comes out so, why not take it outside? Problem is, I don’t have a bike.
Unfortunately, I lost […]
