By GIANNI TRUZZI SPECIAL TO THE P-I As the Boss frankly says, Man made up good according to "what he needed to do business." But its slavish faithfulness to Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel and clumsily grafted music gets in the...
The incredible Louis CK debuts his one hour special "Chewed Up" on Showtime Saturday night at 11pm. Yes, last weekend we told you to check out Chris Rock's special and this one is even better. Louis CK writes a lot of Rock's...
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 2--After a career that began at age 18 some 46 years ago, there probably aren't a lot of items left on Randy Newman's "to-do" list. The interviewer has just received an itinerary of Newman's...
The shuffler: Amanda Petrusich, a rock writer who contributes regularly to Pitchfork and Paste—and occasionally to The A.V. Club. The first was a contribution to the 33 1/3 series about Nick Drake's Pink Moon; the second, It...
The pumpkins are ripe and ready and so are your entertainment options this month. Tonight and Saturday night, for instance, you can take in live music at Café du Jour, formerly the Pajaro Street Grill, near the corner of John...
He has the greatest voice of any Irish performer since John McCormack and has reigned as one of the country's most innovative, original and perplexing talents for the past decade. And, in typical style, Jack L has just gone and...
By GIANNI TRUZZI SPECIAL TO THE P-I Southern poet Robert Penn Warren always insisted that his Pulitzer Prize-wining novel, "All the King's Men," wasn't about Huey Long, the radical populist governor and U.S. senator of 1930s...
• 23,101 children under the age of 10 were asked which animal cracker tastes best. Forty-seven per cent said the elephant is the tastiest. One percent said there's no difference.• Peyton and Eli Manning, brothers who are NFL...
BLUES: SUGAR PIE DESANTO Of all the great artists to record for Chicago's legendary Chess Records, perhaps the most unfairly overlooked is Sugar Pie DeSanto. She stood no more than 5ft tall – but as she shouted in one...
Although Randy Newman has been heard more on film-scores than CD, Harps and Angels, his first album in nearly a decade, shows Newman still has that satirical wit. Harps and Angels has a jovial New Orleans piano tradition...