Call her the anti-Madonna. Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked has come a long way since her days as a '90s college radio staple and Lilith Fair regular; the now born-again Christian took many by surprise on Sunday when she launched into an anti-gay hate rant at a concert — and in San Francisco, of all places. It all went down at Yoshi's, a venue that SFist says had been touting Shocked as " Read More...
Ashby is a high school movie of sorts, where the sensitive new kid in town (Nat Wolff) struggles to fit in to the jock-dominated teen culture, pines for the smart pretty girl (Emma Roberts), and is still getting used to his parents’ divorce. Oh, and his crusty new neighbor (Mickey Rourke) is a retired CIA assassin. Ed and his mom (Sarah Silverman) are just trying to adjust to their new realities, and Ed finds himself in slightly over his head when he randomly asks to interview Ashby, his tough-looking neighbor, for a school assignment. Read More...
There aren't many instances when I find myself, a first-generation Latin American woman from Los Angeles, relating to a middle-aged white man from Massachusetts. I mean, I don't even like wearing closed-toed shoes. Can you imagine the winters? Ugh, hard pass. And yet... watching Mike Birbiglia's new one-man show, The Old Man and the Pool, I felt connected to him, reliving some of my own recent medical traumas and finally being able to laugh at them and release a little of the anxiety I've been carrying. Read More...
