Wondering what to do this weekend? Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL-96.5 DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their top entertainment picks for Thursday, April 5-Saturday, April 7.
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Wondering what to do this weekend? Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL-96.5 DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their top entertainment picks for Thursday, April 5-Saturday, April 7.
Spring makes people do crazy things—cut off all their hair, buy a convertible, spend a week’s pay on perennials. It’s spring fever: Our primal urge to get out of the house after four months of King of Queens reruns and (excuse the New Age-ism) reconnect with the larger world. And the best way to do […]
It’s difficult to review anything Sean Lennon does because it’s not just about the music (or artwork, or film, or in the case of his 2006 Capitol release, Friendly Fire, all of the above)—but about his very life. Sean Lennon lives between pop and a hard place. I’m watching the DVD that accompanies the CD […]
This reporter wasn’t born with a silver phone in her ear, and good interviews don’t grow on trees.
Wondering what to do this weekend? Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL-96.5 DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their top entertainment picks for Thursday, March 29-Saturday, March 31.
You won’t read about the wild ponies of North Carolina’s Outer Banks in my upcoming travel article. Luckily, you can learn about them on the Xpress blogs.
Do you know that Police song “Don’t Stand So Close to Me?” David Mamet’s dark play offers another take on the teacher-student relationship.
Wondering what to do this weekend? Xpress A&E reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL-96.5 DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their top entertainment picks for Thursday, Mar. 22-Saturday, Mar. 24.
“I’ve done movies that have been incredibly successful, and I’m most associated with those,” says actress Molly Ringwald, quite unnecessarily, in a recent interview with Xpress. Don’t you forget about her: Molly Ringwald in Sweet Charity. If you were busy colonizing another planet in the ‘80s, you should know that she’s referring to the John […]
Guitarist Bryan Poole speaks about his tenure in neo-glam band of Montreal with a certain weary positivity that come off more like Stockholm Syndrome than enthusiasm. Theatrical much? of Montreal, among other disguises, is from Georgia. He doesn’t mean it that way, though. It’s just that Poole—who has his own band, not that he gets […]
It’s spring and you don’t have enough black in your wardrobe.
Celtic and Celt-inspired music for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
“Anoint my head/ With your sweet kiss/ My joy is dead/ I long for bliss …” Moaning at the misconceptions: Williams says she’s a “positive person.” No, it’s not something I scrawled on my 9th-grade Social Studies book cover after Jessica Santelli told me that Tim Jordan told her that he didn’t want to slow […]
This downtown gallery is the place for stylish finds.
If you read this week’s story about chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux (in the print version of Xpress), then you know she’s a hard act to … contact. But your hard-working and dedicated reporter (moi) did manage to finagle this late-breaking e-mail interview with the touring blues singer.
I should be writing about Madeleine Peyroux, the singer with the affected Billie Holiday voice and stern, Emily Deschanel-à-la-TV’s-Bones face. But she’s late sending back the answers to the questions I e-mailed her last week, so instead I’m reading about another hard-to-peg vocalist: Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power). Crazy like a fox: Lots of artists […]
Why Peace Jones is the next great party band.
I’ve never been a Harry Connick Jr. fan, but after last night’s concert at the Thomas Wolfe auditorium, I kind of am. I just can’t help it.
A review of Irish band Altan, who played the Orange Peel earlier this week
Asheville’s biggest celebrity magnet may not be the film festival or Bele Chere, but a lesser-known attraction that has more or less waltzed under the radar for the past two decades. That is, unless you’re a ballroom-dance fanatic – in which case, you’re probably all too aware of the Heritage Classic Dancesport Championships, held annually […]
Harry Connick Jr., the jazz crooner better known to Generation Y as the SunCom guy, is impossible to contact. This might be because he doesn’t have “the network” (as emblematized by the other cell phone guy, the one with the nerd glasses), or because he’s so busy doing, well, everything. He just finished a run […]