Archive | September, 2012

Dear Allen: I Am the 47 percent. Down With the 47 Percent!

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 [...]

Rush Limbaugh, Profesh Dick, Opines on … Dicks

Rush Limbaugh claims that dicks are shrinking worldwide — and that chicks are to blame. No, really. Raw Story, reblogging a Media Matters post, brought to our attention Rush’s recent rant against — you guessed it — liberated women. Rush — who pretty much symbolizes the GOP’s insecure white guy schtick — says that “feminazis” [...]

Five Fun Events This Weekend That Avoid Another Late Night at the Bar

Sure, South Florida’s got a lot of “things to do” — if they involve either the ocean, or an establishment whose main purpose is serving alcohol for money. Until recently, though, that’s about where things have stopped. With the summer over and “season” now getting into full swing, though, the span of cultural events around [...]

Last Night Irvine Welsh Read in Miami, Revealed Plans for Upcoming American Stage Adaptation of Trainspotting

Last night at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Scottish author Irvine Welsh revived, yet again, one of his most beloved characters, Mark Renton, first seen in his lauded novel Trainspotting. Renton appears again in Welsh’s latest book, Skagboys, as do Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie, and the rest of the Trainspotting gang. It’s not the [...]

Gainesville Artist Levek on Vintage Sounds, Repping Florida, and Saturday’s Show at Green Room

David Levesque, the artist behind Gainesville-based act Levek, is unabashed about his love for the crackling, cinematic sounds of yesteryear. When other twentysomething solo acts zigged and took the easy route into laptop electronic music, Levesque zagged, turning instead to obscure ’60s soundtracks and folk LPs for inspiration. Inspired by that mid-century orchestral sound, from [...]

Tonight at Books & Books: “Trainspotting” Author Irvine Welsh Reads From Latest Novel “Skagboys”

I was 18 years old when I first saw Trainspotting, the film based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name. At that point in my life I was utterly clueless about the world of heroin addiction in Edinburgh, Scotland, and any interest I had was lost in the struggle to understand what the characters in [...]

Danation: Rush Limbaugh Speaks For Me

By now, anyone who follows politics has heard the “47 percent” gaffe of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. Posted Monday afternoon by David Corn of Mother Jones, the story features Romney saying some shockingly stupid things. But one thing, one beautiful, shiny, crystalline phrase, so overwhelmed the stupid found elsewhere in the video that [...]

The Great Poondoggle: Does Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” Point to Problems in Feminism?

Naomi Wolf’s Vagina was released last week to seemingly more critical flak than fanfare. Concisely, Wolf’s cultural history of cunt, which employs lots of personal anecdotes, argues that a mind-vagina connection exists. For Wolf, scientific developments suggest that our ladyparts directly affect our ladybrains and that treating women and their, er, “yonis” like “goddesses” has [...]

Album Reviews: Bob Dylan, The xx, and More

Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the grating. These are all available at Radio-Active Records. Don’t hold it against them. David Byrne & St. Vincent, Love This Giant While a collaboration between the Talking Heads’s David Byrne and St. Vincent (Annie Clark) seems [...]

Danation: When It Comes to Democrats and DOMA, Is It a Change of Heart, Or Cynical Opportunism?

About a week ago, 145 House Democrats signed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that seeks the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. An amicus brief, for those who aren’t in the legal profession or fans of Law & Order, is a legal paper written in favor of one side of a lawsuit but [...]

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