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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]