.

Contact Me

Send feedback
to:
Web Editor Jeff Shaw

Search this blog

.


RSS Feeds
Categories
Archives
Recent Entries
Links

WEB PARTNERS

CITY PAGES BLOGS
News/Politics

Music

Film

Culture/Lit

Sports

ALT WEEKLIES

NEWSPAPERS

ONLINE PUBS AND RESOURCES

MONDO BLOG

City Pages - Culture To Go

 

Overheard

Nobel laureate rips Bush, his "bleating little lamb"

Filed under: Overheard

pinter.jpg
75-year-old British playwright Harold Pinter won't be able to attend the ceremony for his Nobel Prize this Saturday, but he's already videotaped his acceptance speech. He describes the Iraq War as "blatant state terrorism," and reserves extra tongue lashing for the "pathetic and supine" Tony Blair, suggesting that Blair be tried as a war criminal. Pinter points out that he'd see President George W. Bush tried as well, but the crafty W. has made the scenario impossible by refusing to recognize international courts. The White House has released no immediate word whether Pinter will be included in this year's Christmas card list.

Posted by Quinton Skinner at December 8, 2005 2:22 PM | Comments (3)

 

Overheard: He's thinking of our singles' nights

Filed under: Overheard

Outside the Lagoon Cinema, 9:35 p.m. Saturday. The ticket line stretches around the block, thanks in part to an exclusive screening of Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. Moviegoers unaware of the Get Real Film Festival look confused.

Guy looking at a Get Real poster: "I wonder what they show at a City Pages film festival. People peeing on each other?"

Posted by Lindsey Thomas at November 7, 2005 3:26 PM | Comments (0)

 

Overheard: Dark comedy goes meta

Filed under: Overheard

Couple in a video store looking at dark Christian comedy "Saved!"

She: (hesitant) Mmm, it's got Macaulay Culkin in it.

He: Yeah, he's in a wheelchair.

She: Ooh, funny!

Posted by Corey Anderson at August 1, 2005 4:38 PM | Comments (0)

 

Son of Fela

Filed under: Overheard

Interesting Femi Kuti piece on NPR today. Listen here. Sample quote:

femi-l.JPG
There are so many, hundreds of thousands, of young boys in Africa now. No shoes, no clothes, no money. They don't eat. They live under the bridge. Lagos is disgusting. And they are growing. In five years these boys that are 5 will be 10. Those that are 10 will be 15. 15 will be 20. So when you understand that kind of mathematics it's really scary.

Posted by Paul Demko at July 29, 2005 3:57 PM | Comments (0)

 

Why Pride is Still Necessary

Filed under: Overheard

Yesterday B96 was putting on some sort of contest in which a male listener was asked to decide whether to walk in drag in this weekend?s Pride march or be zapped by a police taser. Naturally, he chose the stun gun.

 

Posted by Dylan Hicks at June 24, 2005 2:28 PM

 


Advertising Info