August 1017, 2000 scene and heard Shtick Shift With the GOP in town, Gyro head Steve Grasse threw a little party, complete with rock, hip-hop and half-naked women, in order to get young voters involved in the political system. MTVs…
August 1017, 2000 six pick Porno Play Making Porn, opening for a two-week run at Plays & Players, is about just that: the gay pornography industry. But the play itself, which has been produced throughout the country since its premiere…
August 310, 2000 loot Let It Glow Star Gazer, a U.K.-based alternative cosmetic company, created Neon Gels ($2.56) all-in-one body and hair paint. These thick creams come in blue, green, orange, pink, red, yellow, and white, which glows in the…
August 310, 2000 disc quicks|world Samia Farah Samia Farah (Sony Music International) Do you ever imagine your heroes born in another time? Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker forced into Borders Book Tour Hell without their smokes? Marshall McLuhan and Roland…
August 310, 2000 six pick Money Shot Everyone remembers that scene from Indecent Proposal where Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore are rolling around on the bed in amorous glee covered in a million bucks. While the U.S. Treasury Department may…
August 310, 2000 six pick Neil Young/The Pretenders Neil Young is the personification of slovenly geezer-integrity, be it the chilly songcraft of After the Gold Rush (1970), the punk aesthetics of Rust Never Sleeps (1979), the pre-electronica Trans (1983) and…
July 2027, 2000 picklet|folk/world Jack Lukeman Metropolis Blue, Nicole Pensiero Thu., July 20 and Tue., July 25, 8 p.m., Grape Street Pub, 105 Grape St., $3, 215-483-7084.
July 1320, 2000 critic pick|roots Jumpin Johnny Sansone After stops in Texas and Colorado, Sansone took root in New Orleans, where he first made music with pals Joe Cabral (sax) and Rod Hodges (accordion) from the Iguanas. Another of the…
July 1320, 2000 disc quicks|rock/pop White Hassle Life Is Still Sweet (Orange Recordings) What the fuck ever happened to Railroad Jerk? Back in, oh, the 90s somewhere, they were one of the best things going, wedding Lower East Side scuzz-blues…
