Under covers [with video]
There was a lot that could've distracted Mike Sager from his 51st birthday. A writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, Sager was on assignment in Las Vegas with Kobe Bryant, the L.A. Lakers guard, when August 17 rolled by…
Arts
Under covers [with video]
Esquire's best reporter gets in our bedroom
There was a lot that could've distracted Mike Sager from his 51st birthday. A writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, Sager was on assignment in Las Vegas with Kobe Bryant, the L.A. Lakers guard, when August 17 rolled by…
Running out of soap
"Passions"Weekdays 2pm, NBC Wacky shit goes down all the time on daytime TV, but none of it comes close to the insanity on "Passions." I caught an episode in which a tsunami crashed into the show’s New England town and unearthed corpses from a graveyard, one of which ended up in a house and then […]
Spokes-men [with video]
After chaining their bicycles to stop signs or simply leaning them against walls just inside the door of the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, a few riders take brown paper sacks of popcorn and iced cans of soda from a small metal washtub as they make their way between rows of folding chairs for the last installment of the Bridge's Summer Film series, a bike-in movie.
Complete trifles
"Big Brother"Tuesday, Thursday & Sunday 8pm, CBS I am deeply embarrassed to admit this, but I have become a "Big Brother" addict. Shame! "BB" is easily the worst reality that TV has to offer; even the production values are low rent. However! This season has entranced me for the following reasons: 1. Evel Dick, a […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
Becoming Jane (PG, 113 minutes) Winsome Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) stars in this speculative biopic about young Jane Austen. Prior to becoming a famous author, Austen was just another romantic chick being wooed a young Irish hunk (James McAvoy from The Last King of Scotland). Brits James Cromwell, Julie Walters and Maggie Smith […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
Becoming Jane (PG, 113 minutes) Winsome Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) stars in this speculative biopic about young Jane Austen. Prior to becoming a famous author, Austen was just another romantic chick being wooed a young Irish hunk (James McAvoy from The Last King of Scotland). Brits James Cromwell, Julie Walters and Maggie Smith class […]
Teen scene
"Scarred"Tuesday 10:30pm, MTV I guess you could look at "Scarred" as the logical successor of "Jackass." Instead of following professional idiots around with cameras, capturing their various body-mutilating stunts, MTV has now turned to amateur dumbasses for footage of their grisly wrecks. Each episode of "Scarred" features several stunts gone horribly awry, as skateboarders, extreme […]
Artist hunter [with video!]
The twisting, snaking mob of bodies that extends along the Downtown Mall has tendrils that seem to extend into every art gallery in sight, and Curt is caught in the middle, misled by his love of sensible snack platters and sparkling water,