All posts by Doug Rule
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San Francisco Beat
Jamie J. Sanchez remembers when he first wanted to become a club DJ. He was all of 17 -- a minor with major dreams. ''I...
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Hippo in Wonderland
Last fall for Halloween, Bella Stassi's brother Roy dressed as the Mad Hatter. ''He designed his entire costume by himself, made it all by hand,''...
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The Joy of Sax
Joshua Redman had no intention of becoming a world-renowned, award-winning jazz musician. ''I didn't go to undergraduate for music – I was going to go...
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Winter Escape
Tired of snow and freezing temperatures? You could wait a month for spring. Better yet, head south in a few weeks for winter's best fun-in-the-sun...
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Tegan & Sara
Tegan and Sara Quin actually look like twins on the cover of Sainthood. ''For years we rejected this twin image, people always trying to twin...
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Download These
''Superstar'' (2000) From the album: This Business of ArtThis was one of the Quin twin's first songs, and to this day the club banger isn't...
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Pigskin Fever
This Sunday, you can wear your football finest to your favorite video watering hole, be it Colts blue and white or Saints black and gold....
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Dark Disco
''I don't want to be ignored, oh god!'' Tom Smith cries at one point on Editors' new In This Light And On This Evening. With...
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True Spirit
''There are pieces of what being gay is about that aren't really being discussed,'' says singer-songwriter Matt Alber. ''Being gay, I see things in a...
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Hollywood Medley
They don't make film music like they used to. So says Bill Conti. ''It's very difficult as the years go by, how they make a...
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Raw Bar
Shea van Horn is giving it to us raw. “Basically what we’re trying to recreate is the dance scene in Cruising,” says...
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Divine Miss M
On a visit to the charmingly scrappy MetroStage in Alexandria right now, you might not find God, but you will find the next best thing....
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The Director's Wife
When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...
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Di$po$able Pop
If you have an ''s'' in your name, have you ever thought to replace it with a dollar sign? And really, why stop there? You...
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Magnetic Mystery
''The last time I looked at my Wikipedia entry, it said that I was born in 1966, I'm Canadian, and I'm a Buddhist,'' says Stephin...
