Hitched.

Even though you will like this I am tempted to file it under “Niche Spectacular”. Jangly brit-pop ala The Wedding Present? CHECK. Girls playing guitar? CHECK. Dueling, shout-y vocalists? CHECK. Spazzy Superchunk-y melodies? CHECK. The sum effect is a little bit like. If you melted a pound of cheddar and tried to serve for dinner, [...]

For a length of time when I was kid my father was a Party Clown. Long from being truth at this point, it’s degenerated into a kind of trivia, falling into that genre of factoid that’s meant to both spur a conversation of it’s doldrums and explore something deep and true about ourselves withour actually [...]

Time Magazine, not usually a bastion of thought-provoking, progressive journalism, has published one of the most interesting, uh, “Spirit of the Times” articles in awhile. The Top 10 Ideas That Are Changing the World Today - It’d be easy to jot down a few freebies (Uhhhh green technology uhhhh saving money uhhh organic food), but [...]

We liked Coraline for a bevy of reasons, not the least of which was teeny-tiny mixed-media sculpture that deserves it’s own NICHE SPECTACULAR post. But nothing made me as happy as the completely unexpected appearance of a 30 second John Linell song. I once joked that They Might Be Giants’ greatest hits was all the [...]

In case you were wondering where your tax dollars were headed, the very smart people at New York’s local public television station have launched a new series entitled The City Concealed. First up? One of America’s foulest treasures, the unbelivably polluted New Town Creek, right here in New York City. Said to have a “15-foot [...]