The other main entertainment at the Kinoscope orgy is Lady Fay Zhu, who sings a racy cabaret song called “My Girl’s Pussy” while clad in an androgynous tuxedo, an homage to both Marlene Dietrich’s homosexually suggestive performance in the 1930 film “Morocco” and a 1932 portrait of ...
fabulous family we had. All the aunts and uncles and cousins. We kids were unaware of the problems of the adults till much later. When I think of those childhood times my heart sings. We churned butter, rode horses, ate tons of oranges, grapefruit, and ate wonderful home-churned ice ...
Our first stop was an early lunch at Trishna for what a local friend describes as “glorious seafood.” I had been here once before but this visit had me singing Hallelujah after every soul-restorative mouthful of Hyderbadi pomfret and lentils. While Mumbai was the most aggravating place we ...
Time Magazine got near the heart of The Killers’ appeal when it wrote, “Brandon Flowers sings as though he’s actually in the middle of a battle, belting out emotional platitudes over explosions.” Brandon loves crescendos, and he loves building his albums to a crescendo, which is why lis...
PLAY EXCERPT: Ralph Stanley sings “O Death” The following year he and Jim Lauderdale would win a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for “Lost in the Lonesome Pines.”“I call him the king of mountain soul,” Lauderdale said. “He had that magical quality about him, that when you heard ...
The lyrics are humid with imagery of stolen glances on starry nights and catastrophic heartache during the monsoon season, and Aftab sings each word with a hushed urgency. Despite the epic emotion of it all, she specifies that Vulture Prince has a history before and after the trauma she’s ...
PLAY EXCERPT: Ralph Stanley sings “O Death” The following year he and Jim Lauderdale would win a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for “Lost in the Lonesome Pines.”“I call him the king of mountain soul,” Lauderdale said. “He had that magical quality about him, that when you heard ...