The Aliens

I n our election endorsements in the October 15 issue of The Stranger , we ran the wrong date for the general election. Read More

A rich girl lives with her father in a large house. Read More

Things get started with an octo-TV set from the future, wherein we see members of the band singing and dancing and looking especially ridiculous on three separate screens. Read More

The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has exteneded the world premiere of Mando Alvarado's Post No Bills Off-Broadway through Dec. 19. Read More

two headed dog lets him show off his john fogerty hollering chops over some equally creedencey stomp and choogle. night of the vampire has a stumbling grind (probably why the entombed cover works so well). don't shake me lucifer gets into a whole big epinephrine shot of rhythm and blues, chuck berry-style. not forgetting the fifties teen ballad i walked with a zombie. the best doo-wop song about the undead the crests never wrote. and this is before i get into the electric autoharp and the disturbing treated vocals on creatures with the atom brain (beautiful vhs video below): remember buchanan? but you're not buchanan. i don't look like him, but i am him. don't you recognize the voice jim? i promised to see you die. yup. as far as i'm concerned it's up there with easter everywhere. reduced it's just an ass-kicking rock and roll record. but one given a big-ass jolt of an electric charge by the genuine torment underpinning it's ec comics psychopathology. Read More

In the space of less that two hours on a recent night, Joey Arias was abducted by aliens, dropped from a spaceship into a nightmarish Garden of Eden and literally danced with the devil. Read More

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony PlayStation 3. Mature) Naughty Dog/Sony. Read More