washingtonpost.com - Sunday ArtsSunday ArtsMaria McKee's Bleak 'Dreams'- April 24, 2005 Lately, alt-country upstart Tift Merritt has been making better Maria McKee albums than McKee herself has. Merritt excels at the sort of rollicking, classic, soul-influenced albums McKee made briefly in the '90s and should be making still. But McKee, who has country rock's best voice and its most unfairly lackluster career -- next to Kelly Willis, anyway -- never settled on a style that fit. Since her days fronting cowpunk pioneers Lone Justice in the early '80s, she's been a country...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9495-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... HERE &38; NOW- April 24, 2005 ART DAN STEINHILBER IS ONE of Washington's most successful and talented young artists. Only 32, he's already shown work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, which has now acquired one of his largest pieces. Next year he'll be getting a solo show at a museum in Houston, as well as an artist's residency at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, a pioneering center for installation art. It's hard to resist the whimsy of Steinhilber's work, in which he assembles dozens or even hundreds of banal.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10661-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/a... A Quick Spin- April 24, 2005 BEAUTY AND THE BEAT Edan Like most good indie hip-hop acts, Edan has a seemingly bottomless musical curiosity, but the Boston DJMC also has an edge over the competition: He's willing to dive headlong into musty '60s and '70s psychedelia for...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9496-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... Shtick Shift: Stand-Up's Edge No Longer Cuts- April 24, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- Like jazz, stand-up comedy is both an American invention and harder than it looks: A lone entertainer with nothing but a microphone stands before an audience and tries to make it laugh.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9491-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... Laughing Across Color Lines- April 24, 2005 It just might be that, however segregated live comedy has become, at the movies we're at least getting together and laughing together.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9494-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... Merry Musicals- April 24, 2005 Musical comedies are taking Broadway by song.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9490-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... Raconteur Stop- April 24, 2005 NEW YORK Here, tucked away in the bowels of a Lower East Side bar among the denizens of the Moth, the literary crowd's answer to stand-up, the vibe is very not-for-profit: granny glasses, funky hats, comfortable shoes. Geek chic.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9497-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... The Hazy Future of Sitcoms- April 24, 2005 "Everybody Loves Raymond" is the last great sitcom of its sitcom generation, the flag bearer for a style of domestic sitcom that not everybody loves anymore.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9493-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... Hit 'Send' And the World Laughs With You- April 24, 2005 The guy's Irish or Scottish or something like that, and he's drunk as a skunk. He staggers down the street, stumbles to his car and starts fumbling to get his key in the lock when two cops walk up, one male, one female.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9492-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... No Laughing Matter- April 24, 2005 The sexy, the subversive and the witty can be found in mighty works of art. Still, as you may have noticed, Washington's museums aren't a lot of laughs.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9498-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/ar... |