Archive | April, 2012

Sharing Was Caring on World Book Night

If you were lucky on Monday night, someone approached you and handed you a free book. Maybe it was Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun or Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. Or maybe you were given The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz or Blood Work by Michael Connelly. If you walked around your city, you could’ve picked up [...]

Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Is a Thing

Arm wrestling — formerly a machismo-tastic test of brute strength — has been reborn as the latest in lady-on-lady empowerment sports. The Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLAW) was conceived in Charlottesville, Va., in 2008, and has since caught on in 10 cities. It works like this: The female competitors, who are vamped out in [...]

No Fiction Pulitzer? Fret Not.

The scandals of the literary world are always slightly hilarious, as they consist of this select group of people throwing a fit over something that, in the grand scheme of things, really doesn’t matter that much. I’m allowed to say that because I’ve been one of those people more times than I’d like to admit. [...]

Danation: The Conservative ACORN

With the massive growth of Super PACs, and the oceans of money they represent going to further the careers of political candidates everywhere, it almost seems quaint to argue over old-school advocacy groups. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, was founded in 1970 and went up in flames 40 years later. [...]

Twenty Local Tastemakers Weigh in on Their Most Anticipated Record Store Day Releases

Record Store Day is upon us, and if you’re not like us, you’re wondering what to buy. The reason that you’re not like us, if you’re asking that question, is because we’ve already asked every vinylhead we know what to buy on Record Store Day. And for your benefit — because we love you very, [...]

Axe and the Oak Emerge From Their Cave to Play Sweatstock

Above all else, Miami trio the Axe and the Oak trade in scarcity and outsider-ness. The band, whose core is frontman Sander Willig and bassist Myles Kaplan, seem to almost deliberately cultivate mystery. Their live performances are rare, spooky, spookily polished, even. Their sound is tight but twangy, full of minor-key reverb and Willig’s emotive [...]

Carole King’s ‘A Natural Woman’ Is Heartbreakingly Honest

Carole King was 15 years old when she walked into the office of ABC-Paramount’s head of A&R and landed herself a recording contract. So begins the incredible career of this legendary singer and songwriter, whose memoir came out April 10. A tale of evolution beginning with a teenage girl following her dreams and ending (for now) [...]

Pool Party Will Make a Big Splash at Sweatstock Saturday

Here’s the story of cult punk foursome Pool Party as they — and their small, but rabid circle of longtime fans — would have you believe. The members first met some 10 years ago when they bumped into each other while searching for drugs on the bathroom floor of the long-defunct South Miami club 5922. [...]

What You Need to Buy on Record Store Day. Says Who? Says Me.

When Salty Eggs asked me to come up with “four or five” picks among the many Record Store Day releases to tout as must-buys, I figured it was a cake assignment. Just look through the list, write up a handful that pique my interest, and call it done. The assignment proved more difficult than I [...]

Dear Allen: In Which the Fla. Congressman Fields Your Questions

Note from the Editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]

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Sharing Was Caring on World Book Night

Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Is a Thing

No Fiction Pulitzer? Fret Not.

Twenty Local Tastemakers Weigh in on Their Most Anticipated Record Store Day Releases

Axe and the Oak Emerge From Their Cave to Play Sweatstock

Carole King’s ‘A Natural Woman’ Is Heartbreakingly Honest

Pool Party Will Make a Big Splash at Sweatstock Saturday

Dear Allen: In Which the Fla. Congressman Fields Your Questions

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