Live Active Culture

If that's true -- and I don't doubt it is -- the members of Groovelily must be real screwed up. The name might conjure up the girl i...

FOR SOMEONE WHO hails from such icy climes, Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq is pretty hot. She has the "exotic"-culture thing go...

AYA IS THE beautiful, fragile, lost soul who writes the column "Home Far Away" for Lumpen  Magazine. She's actually living i...

GOD, I HATE to sound like I’m ghoulishly gleeful about this, because I’m not – but wasn’t it inevitable that stupid news coverage of a stup...

POP MUSIC, POPTIMISM, and finding a way to enjoy and champion good music without getting wrapped up in overwrought politics and class warfar...

EVER SEEN THAT TLC show “What Not to Wear”? I have had the misfortune to view it a few times. Yeah, I know, I’m sorry. I’ve been between job...

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY, and I've just left this opening at the Flat Iron Building, where I've been hanging out with the phenom...

GARRY MEIER'S RETURNED to the Chicago airwaves recently, and after listening to him on and off the last couple months, I think he'...

WHOSE SICK JOKE was it to make panties for barely-teenage girls with a picture of a cute feline on the, er, bottom front panel, with the ca...

ALTHOUGH SIMON REYNOLDS has been doing pop music criticism for almost as long as I've been living, I only discovered his writing late la...

MULLIGAN STEW. I have never laughed so hard at a rap song. (The link is to the mp3.) This is not new stuff, but SoCal's Soup The Chemi...

AS JOHN CUSACK'S character Rob Gordon muses, pop music really has screwed up entire generations with its pictures of "heartbreak,...

PARIS AND NICOLE : Non-producing rich brats coasting on family wealth. Paris-and-Nicole-hyping media: Non-producers coasting on footage of n...

THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY: I have this dream about a beautiful artist/writer named Jenny or Jen, who is a white girl, with red hair. I pick her...

Don't ask why, but today I Googled the term "breast milk ice cream." This took me to a page of a breastfeeding forum where the...

YESTERDAY WAS AN INTERESTING DAY. First, in the morning I had to think about what snacks to buy for the kids. (I work at a ...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A REDNECK WHEN .... ... your lawn is your garage and your bathroom. The owner of the car and tub, Sarah , (aka Stormy)...

sometimes you meet your twin it’s like looking in a mirror but just like your reflection and you maybe twins aren’t meant to come togethe...

YOU HAVE TO LOVE synchronicity. Friday, 10:33 a.m: I’m watching The Buddy Holly Story on VH-1. Buddy’s mom is telling him over dinner, “w...

WHO IS THIS MAN and what is my connection to him? Where to start? 1981:  Hall and Oates release a song called “ Private Eyes .” (Am I w...