WEDNESDAY The Perfect Play Wednesday, December 21 at JACK, 7 pm: $15 Not much seems perfect in 2016, especially in these last few moments. However,…
Jiggle With an Unlikely Pair: Pole Dancers and Comics Combine Powers
Comics have a lot to compete with in this town– each other, for one– so it’s safe to assume that a stand-up can only be trying to…
Drom, a World-Music Oasis in a Sea of Urban Renewal
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. Earlier this month, a funky clarinet tune spilled…
‘Operotica’: It’s When Burlesque and Opera Come Together
If you tend to doze off at the opera, rest assured this one’ll rouse (and arouse?) you: Sarah Screams’ forthcoming show at Drom will combine opera and…
Steampunk Weekend Is Upon Us
Brace yourselves, upstanding citizens, Steampunk Weekend arrives this Friday, bringing with it a maelstrom of polyester fedoras, burlesque dancers, mustaches waxed with bee butt derived from animatronic…
At a 100th Birthday Reading of Sun Ra’s Lost Works, Space Was the Place
William S. Burroughs isn’t the only counterculture deity being feted with a centenial. The late Sun Ra would have been about a month shy of…