The Pixies Have Mellowed Out, But They’re Still Selling Out Shows
The Pixies. Travis Shinn Joey Santiago, lead guitarist of the Pixies, is in LA and—predictably—stuck in traffic. But rather than rage about it, he says it puts him in an ethereal mood. “Traffic moves a little bit and a car honks,” he tells me over the phone. “It’s a nanosecond, calm down.” The Pixies are on the…
Native American Dishes You Can Cook This Week
Courtesy The Sioux Chef Lakota Chef Sean Sherman, known as “The Sioux Chef,” is on a mission to revive the pre-Reservation cuisine of Indian tribes—food that’s largely gone missing from the American diet. Now Sherman is out with a new cookbook, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, featuring sumptuous recipes for North Woods ingredients: think griddled…
You Won’t Change Your Cranky Conservative Uncle in One Dinner Conversation
Gérard DuBoisLast October, shortly before the election, I came across a startling photo from Oakland, California, circa 1969. Two men stood side by side: a black guy in a beret and leather jacket and a white guy in a denim vest emblazoned with the Confederate flag. The white guy was part of the Young Patriots, a…
Ben Carson’s Controversial Confidant Wants to Buy Washington Newspaper
Armstrong Williams speaks at the annual DC Influencers Brunch at a downtown Washington restaurant in 2016.Sipa/AP Armstrong Williams, the conservative businessman, TV talk-show host, and longtime confidant of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, is trying to buy Washington City Paper, the alternative weekly newspaper covering the nation’s capital. According to a current City…
Pour a Cocktail and Enjoy the Smooth Lounge Pop of Ranny Sinclair
Ranny Sinclair Another Autumn Modern Harmonic Like a soft summer breeze, the hazy mid-‘60s lounge pop of New Yorker Ranny Sinclair offers a soothing respite from the modern world. Collecting her four singles plus four previously unreleased tracks, Another Autumn evokes a melancholy cool similar to Astrid Gilberto’s “The Girl from Ipanema,” with Sinclair’s breathy,…
Thanks to the FCC, Christmas Comes Early for Pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group
Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Christmas came early for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the pro-Trump local television goliath. On Thursday, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted on a series of actions that would eliminate regulations for local media ownership while approving a new TV broadcast standard developed by Sinclair. Both decisions will likely result in a major windfall for the…