Mar 13th, 2008 · Best known for his sly, sexy party anthems, 72-year-old Andre Williams toiled in the music industry trenches for decades, battling homelessness and addiction along the way. Now he's been rediscovered by young white rockers.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Bonerama's version of "When the Levee Breaks" pulls from the famous version on Led Zeppelin IV, complete with sly re-renderings of harmonica solos on swaying trombone. It moves with a heavy groove, dominated by the pounding wave of sound created by the slides of the trombone.
Dec 24th, 2009 · The American Kennel Club took a poll to rank the top dogs in pop culture. Nearly 76,000 voters picked their favorite. The winner: Charlie Brown's sly dog, Snoopy. Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille. Scooby Doo was third.
Nov 12th, 2009 · Director Wes Anderson's first foray into animation, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, is based on the charmingly wicked children's book by Roald Dahl. The film follows a battle of wits between the sly fox (voiced by George Clooney) and three formidable farmers. Critic Kenneth Turan says the film's stop-motion animation is tailor-made for the sort of quirky details that Anderson employs.
Sep 8th, 2009 · Lorrie Moore puts her penetrating prose and sly observations to work in her latest novel, A Gate at the Stairs. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls the book "a literary cyclone."
Jan 28th, 2009 · The great Les McCann is a veteran entertainer who has spent many years in jazz clubs, making sly humor of hard work. The gravel in his voice pairs sweetly with Javon Jackson's smooth tenor, as they revisit McCann's history-making LP Swiss Movement and more.
Dec 26th, 2008 · La Cenerentola is Rossini's uproarious, yet touching version of the familiar Cinderella story — minus the magic pumpkin and the glass slipper, but with an added dose of telling, human foibles. Vivica Genaux stars in a production from the Grand Theatre of Geneva.
Oct 5th, 2008 · It took over five years for Nathanial Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day.