Cristina Córdova The howling is deafening. The screaming. The hooting. The pumping legs and shaking hips. Is it… the real David Bowie onstage? The Thin White Duke himself? For the first three chords of "Ziggy Stardust" it’s hard to tell it is the house band Kitty Stardust playing and not the rock icon. The crowd is losing … Read more
MUSICJavon Jackson & Les McCann Javon Jackson has spent his entire life engulfed in some the greatest jazz around. As a child, his parent turned him on to Gene Ammons and Ahmad Jamal. As a teen, he was blown away by Sonny Stitt (and who wouldn’t be). By the ripe age of 16, he was … Read more
Publisher Kristin Henning: x-ray vision Chief Operating Officer Matt Bartel: [No response yet, but here’s a guess from the editor.] Advertising Director A.J. Kiefer: short shorts Chief Editor Cristina Córdova: Self-righteous indignation!A&E Editor Kate Iverson: Carrot Juice (only sometimes with vodka) Contributing WritersChris Birt: [No response yet, but here’s a guess from the editor.]Rich Goldsmith: … Read more
We read with disappointment the open letter from Marcie Rendon — "The Cost of Silence" — and several other online posts she has written attacking our work with her on our recent production, Border Crossing. In some of these communications she has gone to the unfortunate, and offensive, extreme of describing our process as "racist." … Read more
SPECIAL ART EVENT2008 Art-A-Whirl Oh my goodness. How can I even begin to give you a glimpse of this weekend’s line-up? It’s Art-A-Whirl weekend. Clearly, that’s no secret. If you haven’t yet heard, you probably haven’t the house for the past couple of weeks — or checked your email, or visited any local websites (or … Read more
This just in: Rootclip offers a new venue for amateur and indie filmmakers who want to take part in a joint story-telling experience. How It Works Rootclip provides an initial story idea with a "root" or starter clip – one to two minutes of compelling video that begins a story and is totally open-ended. How … Read more
MUSICHeliotrope V Art-A-Whirl weekend is fast approaching, and with that come many exciting events. If you made it out last year, perhaps you passed by the Ritz for their first year hosting Heliotrope, Flaneur Productions‘ annual three-day exhibition of contemporary underground music. Now, mind you, last year wasn’t Heliotrope’s first year — this year marks … Read more
It was on the far right, literally. A tiny block of space someone had purchased to help The Rake live another day. Pay up, and you can paste your sign/add your link/sing your song on my web page/television/telephone/window/door/floor/car/bus/butt/etc… In the ultimate capitalist pervasion of everyday life, this heat-seeking piranha of an ad jumped at me, … Read more
You’ve seen this image before. Of course you have — if nothing else, at least a cheap print in a college dorm. Gustav Klimt’s Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938, is now the most expensive painting ever sold — and the opening subject of The Rape of Europa, an "epic story of the … Read more
We finally have a new Call for Artists page on our website. You can access it directly through the More for Rake Readers links at the bottom of each page. Be sure to check in periodically for new listings. To submit a listing, send your description via email with Call for Artists as the subject … Read more