Cover Story
A Place to Gather Again
The Long Center recycles not only Palmer Auditorium’s materials but also its civic purpose
Band of the Month: Magnet School
Magnet School pops and swells
Capital Metro’s Shiny New Toys
A photo gallery of Capital MetroRail’s new commuter rail cars
Cute Band Alert!
Shapes Have Fangs are the MOST.
Random Play
Going-ons in the ATX
Braille Is for Diners
State agency and students bring braille menus to 38 eateries around Austin, more to follow
Ice Bats Win in OT, Force Game Three
Playoff hockey in Austin. Quite the rarity. The last time the Ice Bats reached the playoffs 50 Cent’s “In da Club” was topping the charts and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ruled the big screen. Well, I guess 2003 wasn’t that long ago, but it sure must have…
No Carping About Fishing Rules
Lady Bird Lake, common carp capital of the world?
The Real Test
There’s a phrase thrown around a lot in sports stating that “defense wins championships.” Baseball follows those guidelines as well with a slight difference. In a lot of other sports, there are trick plays or other ways that a less-talented team can win. In football, there’s the reverse or a play-action pass to fool defenders.…
From Round Rock to the World
The big news in these parts this week was that the Austin Aztex announced a home field for their inaugural season. They’ll play all eight of their home games at Round Rock High’s Dragon Stadium. There had been intense speculation about the venue; the team’s announcement press release noted that a lot of stadiums they…
Reading the Right Things in Texas
New state reading standards may include mandatory set texts
Tip One Back With the Wranglers
Heya, chumps, come meet the Austin Wranglers at the Dog and Duck Pub (406 W. 17th St.) tonight from 7:30-9pm. Kick back a brew or two with Coach Ben Bennett and the crew four days before their season kicks off with a home game at the Drum. Austin landed at the 15 spot in the…
City of Women
Ladies night at Antone’s
Gravel Goes His Own Way
Green-endorsing Democratic presidential wannabe Mike Gravel is now a Libertarian
Wanna join the Chrontourage?
Wow! Things with the Chrontourage are growing so fast it is making our pretty little heads spin. Right now we are looking to expand our Chrontourage street team which means we need you! We are looking for bright and enthusiastic young people who want to help promote the Austin Chronicle at various events throughout Austin…
Texecutioners Take to the Road for ’08 Season
TXRG touring team to hit Houston, Kansas City and Feasterville
Ice Bats Drop Game One
The Ice Bats entered the Central Hockey League playoffs as hot as Scarlett Johansson but were quickly cooled by the Odessa Jackalopes, losing game one of their three-game first-round series 4-1. Odessa had suffered defeat in eight of their last 10 games while the Bats had won five out of their last six, but regular-season…
Fast Times With Darondo
Doin’ the splits with a lost soul singer
Screenwriters Tell All (Or Some of It, at Least – Okay, a Little Bit of It)
Free screenwriting roundtable at UT
McCaul Swears Off Earmarks
Caught with his hand in $20 million cookie jar, congressman swears he’ll be good from now on
Good Eye, Good Eye
Two Austin film fest alum hit the Big Apple
Puppy Mill: Cuteness Kills!
No one ever said we needed more puppies!
Austin Aztex Are Round Rock Bound
The Austin Aztex announced last night at their kick-off meet-and-greet that the U-23 team will be playing their first season at Round Rock High School’s Dragon Stadium. Located just off I-35 at FM 620, Dragon Stadium has about 8,000 seats, and a brand new synthetic turf field. Aztex president Phil Rawlins was clearly pleased to…
Free Money!
TFPF hands out free money
Playoffs Begin Tonight for the Ice Bats
The Central Hockey League’s Ray Miron President’s Cup Playoffs drop the puck tonight and the No. 5 seed Austin Ice Bats will take on the No. 4 seed Odessa Jackalopes (in Odessa) starting at 7:05pm. The game will be carried live on 1530 AM. Game two is Wednesday, 7:35pm at the Chaparral Ice Arena here…
The Fiefdom
Wetnecks!
Cans on Film
Documentarians looking for recyclers
Trying to Shock but Instead
So that’s how one mumbles out of a non-closet.
Poll Position
Ruminations on polls.
Attention Supercreative Types
New Filmmaking Frenzy competition kicks off
Republicans Seek Teens for Weekend
Travis GOP needs pages for Saturday’s Dist. 14 convention
Who’s Running for D.A. of Bikini Bottom?
It’s not what Montford says, it’s where she says it
Fraktastic Television
Battle(star)-Ready
4,000
After reaching the five year landmark, the US occupation of Iraq reaches a grim new measure
Texas Has a Sweet (16) Tooth
Though the Longhorns let their second-round game with Miami get way, way too close, Texas has once again made it back to the Sweet 16 and has a date with Stanford. Fueled by an excellent offensive performance from A.J. Abrams and the usual leadership of point guard D.J. Augustin, the Longhorns looked nearly unstoppable until…
TXRG, Home and Away
Texas Rollergirls season firming up
Libertarians on the November Travis County Ballot
Third party files for 12 offices
Dogfish Head Off-Centered Film Festival
Dogfish Head Off-Centered Film Festival Directed by Various. The two-day festival sponsored by the independent beer brewery specializes in off-centered food and films. Friday (April 3) features portfolio beer tasting and screening of in-house-created film shorts and beer commercials. (Tickets are $45.) Saturday’s program (April 4) is a screening of the winners and runner-up shorts…
Girls on Film
Girls Rock Camp Austin benefit tomorrow
The Brooks Papers
UT to accept acquires former US Congressman’s papers
Messin’ With Texas and Wisconsin Boys
SXSW highlights from Shut Up
Living With Ed’s Endorsement
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
‘Austin in Focus’ This Week
Gabbin’ with the FOX gang this morning.
Oppel Stepping Down as ‘Statesman’ Editor
He’ll be replaced by Managing Editor Fred Zipp
Event Menu
March 20-31
Oops!
An editing error in last week’s ongoing coverage of the district attorney’s race (“D.A.’s Race,” News, March 14) produced the erroneous statement that the Travis County Sheriff’s Officers Association represents the D.A. office’s correction officers. Of course, the association represents the correction officers employed by the Sheriff’s Office. Due to an editing error in the…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Naked Raygun Red Eyed Fly, Wednesday, March 12 Despite being a commonly cited influence in the development of 1990s punk subgenres such as emo, Chicago’s Naked Raygun hasn’t exactly touched off a wave of acts that actually sound like them. At their best, Raygun stood firmly at the nexus of post-punk and hardcore without succumbing…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Half Japanese Spiros Amphitheater, Friday, March 14 For the return of the band that would be king, Half Japanese did it up in style. The classic 1980s lineup – brothers Jad and David Fair, guitarist Mark Jickling, saxophonist John Dreyfuss and brother Ricky on drums, and frequent guitarist John Moremen – was augmented by Yo…
Election Notes
Notes from the campaign trail
Race
This new Bollywood film tells the story of two brothers who compete with cars at the racetrack.
A Disaster Brewing
Hops shortage squeezes local-beer makers and drinkers
Page Two: How Your South-by High Can Last Through the Rest of the Year
A veteran festival-goer weighs in
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Billy Bragg Cedar Street Courtyard, Thursday, March 13 As Billy Bragg noted, his solo outdoor performance was the perfect opportunity to revisit his long-lost youth spent busking at Kensington in the London Tube. Frisky and funny, chatty and typically topical, Bragg remains an unreconstructed, socialist-minded UK punk unembarrassed to carry his fascist-killing guitars – electric…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Christian Scott Momo’s, Friday, March 14 At a Music Festival overwhelmingly sated by rock & roll, trumpeter Christian Scott showed there’s still plenty of room for jazz, especially the type that struts the diamond-hard, rock ‘n’ funk grooves derived from the late-1980s, Brooklyn-born M-Base sound. The New Orleans native tuned up for his Auditorium Shores…
Happenings
March 20-27
Water
Don’t come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It’s instead an encounter with “voodoo chemistry” that aims to show why we all should start imbibing “structurized water.”
Brewpubs
With four great local brewpubs, beer drinkers in Austin are lucky
Off the Record
A walk on the wild side of SXSW 2008
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
The People’s Revolutionary Choir Creekside @ Hilton Garden, Thursday, March 13 London psych-rock sextet the People’s Revolutionary Choir drew the SXSW makeshift venue booby prize Thursday night when they showcased in a hotel conference room better suited to an insurance seminar. At least the chairs were comfortable. Despite the oddball setting and sparse attendance, the…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Clipse, Kid Sister, the Cool Kids Emo’s Main Room, Friday, March 14 Clipse got top-billing, but it was the Chicago posse of party-rockers that got rumps shaking at Emo’s on Friday night. Declaring themselves the “new black version of the Beastie Boys,” Chi-town’s Cool Kids worked a packed crowd into full-on party mode with their…
Army Chaplain at Guantánamo to Speak
First permanent Muslim chaplain accessible to detainees to speak at UT
Food-o-File
Famous foodies at SXSW, juicy farmers’ market news, and more
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Bun B Fuze, Wednesday, March 12 With the jam-packed crowd already worked into an absolute frenzy thanks to an impromptu 45-minute set from an admittedly drunk Bushwick Bill, Bun B hit the stage all business. It’s a good thing, too, because a rapper coming soft would’ve been swallowed up in the clusterfuck of onstage guests…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Retribution Gospel Choir, Mark Kozelek Central Presbyterian Church, Thursday, March 13 Maximizing the reverential acoustics of the Central Presbyterian Church, the Retribution Gospel Choir and Mark Kozelek silenced the pews through opposing extremes. The Minnesota trio, led by Low’s Alan Sparhawk, unleashed an Old Testament fury from their Kozelek-produced debut, the raw surge of guitars…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Duffy Stubb’s, Saturday, March 15 Buzzed as the next Amy Winehouse, blue-eyed UK soulstress Duffy went into her official SXSW showcase as one of the most anticipated performers of the Music Festival. Her single’s been the top of the pops for weeks at home. Disappointingly, her appearance early at Stubb’s had the air of an…
APD Releases Racial Profiling Report
Traffic and pedestrian stops down last year; searches up
The Hightower Report
Cashing in on Payday Loans; and Our Leader Speaks
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Kimya Dawson Emo’s Lounge, Wednesday, March 12 If Jason Reitman’s Juno never reached multiplexes, many of us wouldn’t know the name Kimya Dawson. Fortunately for her, and for K Records, none of us ever met a bike we didn’t want to ride. From the first spastic strums of soundtrack gem “Tire Swing,” Dawson hypnotized the…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Liam Finn The Ale House, Thursday, March 13 Young Liam Finn’s debut, I’ll Be Lightning (Yep Roc), is one of the best discs of the still-new year. That combined with the word that his shows are a virtual one-man band led to high expectations for this appearance. Unfortunately, it was a buildup to a letdown.…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Was (Not Was) La Zona Rosa, Saturday, March 15 Even if most folks never got over 1988’s goofy “Walk the Dinosaur” (“open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur”), it was still a true crime that a bigger crowd didn’t attend the closing-night Was (Not Was) set. With the exception of a…
Sheriff’s Office Draws Heat for Helping ICE
County’s willingness to oblige feds prompts backlash
2007-08 Austin Music Awards Encore
Roky Erickson Pinetop Perkins Spoon and Krum Bums celebrate backstage. The Skunks induction into the Hall of Fame Jimmie Dale Gilmore during the Walter Hyatt tribute The Judy’s Okkervil River’s Will Sheff Warren Hood (l) and Lyle Lovett Roy (l) and Sundance Head
Spring Training
Seasonal snapshots of the council candidates
Soccer Watch
High school playoffs, Austin Aztex announce first-round signings for their inaugural season, and more
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Maya Azucena Prague, Thursday, March 13 The basement bar of Prague felt like a hidden Philly neo-soul den on Thursday with a small scattering of young hip-hop heads and the “grown and sexy” crowd there to check out Brooklyn, N.Y., songstress Maya Azucena. Rocking red pants and an eye-catching fro-hawk, Azucena milled around the room…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Ice Cube Auditorium Shores, Saturday, March 15 “For all those that want Ice Cube out the game,” started the legendary West Coast rapper, “I got one thing to say: You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.” Bam! Ice Cube reminded everyone at Auditorium Shores Saturday night just why he’s atop rap’s pantheon. The hourlong…
First Lady Inspires Veteran to Force Library Elections in Westbank
West Austin library district’s elected board of trustees has sat uncontested since 2001
SXSW 08 Photo Gallery
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ACC: Four for the Board
The Austin Community College board of trustees election will show four seats on the municipal ballot, but only Place 1 actually features a contest: between attorney Tim Mahoney, legislative research analyst Harrison Keller, and student Michael “Mike” Reid. In Place 2, John-Michael Cortez, a community-outreach specialist for Capital Metro, is the lone candidate to succeed…
Playing Through
Do UT’s men’s and women’s basketball teams have what it takes to make a Final Four appearance?
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
M1 of Dead Prez Fuze, Thursday, March 13 The Dead Prez stigma is that they don’t care who’s watching, who’s listening, or who’s buying their albums. M1 and Stic.man know it’s good music, so they’re gonna keep making it. That’s why M1 didn’t seem put off whatsoever when he strolled onstage 40 minutes late to…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
SXSW Panel: Hip Hop, Politics & the Ever Changing Music Business Carver Museum, Saturday, March 15 The conference’s liveliest panel was at the Carver Museum where a discussion of hip-hop and politics moderated by The Source magazine Editor Soren Baker was part of a full day of free hip-hop events open to the public. Big…
Cross-Border Craziness
Why frontera residents are appalled by the wall
Forgione’s Long Farewell
Superintendant Forgione plans his final year
Day Trips
The Cross south of Ballinger rises 100 feet above ground with a wingspan of 70 feet and welcomes all to come enjoy the serenity of the surroundings
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Holy Fuck Wave Rooftop, Thursday, March 13 “The Letter E Is Purple.” So read a recent headline from Salon.com’s Alison Buckholtz on her synesthesia, a neurological condition affecting the brain’s perception of colors, numbers, and letters. It’s a meshing of reality and sensory perception, and that’s where Toronto’s Holy Fuck comes in. One could simply…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
SXSW Panel: Vinyl Revival Austin Convention Center, Saturday, March 15 “With vinyl you’re much more involved in the listening experience – you have to get up to flip the record every 20 minutes,” said Patrick Amory of Matador Records. “And it’s deferring to the artist who created it,” added Revolver’s Michael Doyle. “And it’s communal,”…
Day Trips
The Cross south of Ballinger rises 100 feet above ground with a wingspan of 70 feet and welcomes all to come enjoy the serenity of the surroundings
The Timeline
Jan. 5, 1959: Grand opening of Municipal Auditorium, designed by the Austin firm Jessen, Jessen, Millhouse & Greeven. Credit for the dome’s color scheme goes to renowned modern artist Seymour Fogel, who was then an instructor in the University of Texas Department of Art & Art History. February 1963: Three thousand five hundred people, including…
AISD on the May Ballot
Board of Trustees: Campaign anti-climax
Point Austin: A Grain of Salt
Do endorsements really matter?
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
No Age Habana Calle 6 Annex Backyard, Thursday, March 13 “Thanks for coming to the Warped Tour,” remarked No Age drummer Dean Spunt with a straight face. It was to be that kind of night. The duo of Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall has L.A. punk pedigree stamped all over its noise-thrash symphonics, apparent on…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
SXSW Panel: ’16 Magazine’ and the Birth of Music Journalism Austin Convention Center, Saturday, March 15 Before rock music became a matter of (semi) serious discourse, there was 16 Magazine. Although 16 was often dismissed as fodder for teenyboppers during its heyday, the editorial tone and hyperbolic aesthetic established by the late Gloria Stavers ultimately…
Arts Review
Hyde Park’s return to Martin McDonagh territory is as wickedly delicious as the potato alcohol his play’s bickering brothers gulp down
The Bond Breakdown
The first major project of AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione’s final year will be overseeing a bond election worth $343,717,819. After six months of research and public hearings by the Citizens’ Bond Advisory Committee, and consultation with district and school staff, the board of trustees approved three bond propositions for the May 10 ballot. If all…
Beside the Point
Council cools its jets in post-SXSW haze
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
The Wombats Maggie Mae’s Rooftop, Thursday, March 13 Returning to Austin surfing atop the pop-punk fun-bomb that is hit single “Let’s Dance to Joy Division,” Liverpool’s liveliest marsupials reconfirmed the standing fact that if you want an audience to bop around like a Tasmanian devil on an Earl Grey jag, all that’s necessary are three…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Hanne Hukkelberg Emo’s Jr., Saturday, March 15 Hanne Hukkelberg has the face of a woman in a Jean-Luc Godard film, doe-eyed and knowing. Add to that a voice parts Billie Holiday and Beth Gibbons, and the 28-year-old Norwegian’s charm is hard to ignore. Last year’s beautiful sophomore album, Rykestrasse 68, recorded in Berlin, was moody…
Girls Rock!
“How do you teach a teenage girl how to like herself?” is the key question that drives Portland, Ore.’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, as well as this documentary survey of the experience.
Arts Review
Maestro Peter Bay zeroed in on early 20th century France, and the results were magnificent
I Heart Guitarz
Girls Rock! chronicles a camp where girls do just that
Media Watch
The Statesman‘s getting smaller, but for what?
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Blue Cheer Emo’s Annex, Friday, March 14 “We’re Blue Cheer, and this is what we do,” said finely grizzled bassist/vocalist Dickie Peterson before launching into a five-song, 40-minute set of blues-rock thunder custom-made for an arena full of stringy-haired men in ripped jeans and black T-shirts from 1971. Formed in 1967, Blue Cheer were progenitors…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Jacob Golden, M. Ward, Jim James St. David’s Church, Saturday, March 15 “We’d like to thank God for letting us use his house,” offered Jim James sincerely, supported by the gorgeous acoustic arrangements of My Morning Jacket’s most gospel-inflected material. Jacob Golden opened, delivering the hushed tremble from his sophomore effort, Revenge Songs. Eyes shut,…
Doomsday
In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.
Arts Review
This Gallery Lombardi group show defiantly straddles divisions with singers behind the lens and guitarists behind paintbrushes
DVD Watch
There’s a provocative postscript left off Lubitsch Musicals: pre-Code
Naked City
Quote of the Week “I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Castanets Central Presbyterian Church, Friday, March 14 “This show is brought to you by IFC, Yaris, Dell, and Jesus,” lead Castanet Raymond Raposa joked. “He put some good money down on this Festival.” The setting was strange but perfect: a towering ceiling, unparalleled acoustics, stillness. And before the gigantic crucifix affixed to the sanctuary wall,…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
MSTRKRFT Vice, Saturday, March 15 What can you say about Toronto DJ duo MSTRKRFT? It’s the opposite of Death From Above 1979, although bassist Jesse Keeler (JFK) and producer Alex Puodziukas (Al-P) are indeed the masters of craft. Instead of blasting beats, MSTRKRFT trips funky house, hands in the air, strobe light jammin’. And the…
Never Back Down
Never Back Down is like The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.
Readings
During the 1950s, comics came under societal and governmental scrutiny. David Hajdu examines this troubled time.
Animated Opinions
Korey Coleman and company deal out critique on Spill.com
Arthouse: A design worth the wait
After nine years, Arthouse is ready to complete the renovation of its two-story headquarters at 700 Congress
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Destroyer Parish, Friday, March 14 Dan Bejar’s contributions to the New Pornographers have made him a cult hero, celebrated in his native Canada and beyond for his reedy harmonies and complex lyrics. Yet Bejar displays little enthusiasm for being the star of the show, so when his twang-free side-project, Destroyer, faced technical difficulties at its…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Monotonix Bourbon Rocks Patio, Saturday, March 15 Last SXSW, Monotonix started one of its sets with the drummer lighting his drum kit on fire. This year, the flames were noticeably missing – probably for the best – but the Israeli trio made up for it in acrobatics and one heck of a rock show. Playing…
Under the Same Moon
The film’s parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.
Readings
“This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That wisdom is at the heart of this collection.
Film News
Villa Muse down but not out (not just yet, at least), plus new (and old) developments for Veronica Mars‘ Rob Thomas
Austin Cabaret Theatre: Toasting Tony
Russ Lorenson debuted his cabaret tribute to Tony Bennett in Austin, and now he’s bringing it back
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
She & Him Parish, Friday, March 14 The comparisons between Zooey Deschanel and Jenny Lewis are unmistakable, the Elf princess turned pop queen with M. Ward’s help recalling her crossover predecessor before Lewis left Pleasantville for the red-light district. From her long-flowing locks and matronly dress to an irresistible pop and twang, Deschanel sounds and…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
David Banner Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 15 Hulk smash! With expectations running high for a new look from the Mississippi Monster, Banner skipped onto stage (for serious) to more of the same, a steady dose of bleacher-rattling bass thumps, self-indulging hooks, and big-ups to the Southern rap movement. At least he put the effort…
Drillbit Taylor
This mediocre tween comedy that stars Owen Wilson comes from some very talented people – Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen – who appear to be experiencing a delayed sophomore slump.
After a Fashion
Stephen has bad dreams for good reason and is not fooling anyone with that yoga thing
TV Eye
TV Eye unpacks SXSW 08 and christens TV on the Internet
Public Access
Is public access TV on the blink?
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
BoDeans Auditorium Shores, Friday, March 14 For a Wisconsin band, the BoDeans sure love Texas, which is made obvious by their frequent appearances here. With this well-attended free show, they demonstrated why Texas audiences love them back. After 25 years together, Kurt Neumann and Sammy Llanas have boiled their sound down to harmonic chemistry and…
How ‘Green’ Is the Transit Working Group?
Members tasked with revising decision-making process used in evaluating toll road package
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking might have been a terrific character study of damaged adult siblings, but instead becomes a muddled road trip toward redemption.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A critical amount of debris orbiting the Earth, the benefits of aluminum helmets, and more
The Common Law
Free Legal Aid – Do I Qualify?
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
R.E.M. Stubb’s, Wednesday, March 12 Since 1988’s Green or Automatic for the People four years later, the quality of R.E.M.’s live shows has been more or less inversely proportional to the quality of the accompanying albums. The good news is that R.E.M.’s first studio release in four years, Accelerate, is a return to the edgier…
SXSW 08 Music Live Shots
Daniel Lanois SXSW Live @ Austin Convention Center, Friday, March 14 SXSW brings out Daniel Lanois’ type of crowd. Broadcast live for DirecTV in the Austin Convention Center’s Bat Bar, the SXSW 03 keynoter filled the makeshift club with fans edging to get a better glimpse of his immaculate fretwork and the equally virtuosic drumming…
@ Newsdesk
City kicking off first major update of Bicycle Master Plan in 10 years; wants public input.
Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant’s new film about young male skateboarders is breathtaking, heartbreaking, tragic, gorgeous, and psychically true all at the same time.
Luv Doc Recommends: KOOP Easter Sunday Soiree
Here’s hoping your band got signed last week so you can peel off those skinny jeans and let that thing breathe for a while. Your privates don’t need to be sealed up like a Nazi treasure cave or Christ’s tomb. It was 95 degrees last Friday. Heat like that demands a certain amount of ventilation,…
