Email Author Rebecca Haithcoat

2010 Stories by Rebecca Haithcoat

• "Peaches Christ Superstar" at The Orpheum Theatre Last Night

  published Dec 18, 2010

  [For more photos, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Peaches Christ Superstar @ The Orpheum Theatre".] "Peaches Christ Superstar" December 17, 2010 The Orpheum Theatre Peaches, clad in a plain, pale le... More >>

• Exit 10

  published December 9, 2010

  The formula for a classic country song is simple: Hard-livin', hard-lovin' man, born with a rambler's soul and a soft spot for whiskey and... More >>

• Kush, Cartoons and Camaros

  published December 2, 2010

  It's Thanksgiving week, and Curren$y is in Amsterdam. Reason enough for a champion of chiefin' to be grateful: For a rapper... More >>

• Uptown Downtown

  published November 25, 2010

  As Mel Brooks wrote in The Producers, “If you’ve got it, flaunt it!” Some living legends delude themselves and cause fans to... More >>

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  Live Review: J.Cole at the Key Club

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Shortly before J.Cole sauntered onto the Key Club's stage, the staticky intro of Jay-Z's "Public Service Announcement" bound together the sold-out crowd packed sardine-tight with more than just physic... More >>

• Ledisi at El Rey Theatre: Live Review

  published Nov 08, 2010

  Singing "Higher than This," the song that's landed her in heavy VH1 Soul rotation, Ledisi experienced some technical difficulties. Her microphone squealed but--bathed in golden light--she just smiled... More >>

• The Good Prisoner

  published November 4, 2010

  It's not difficult to draw parallels between the pre-war reminiscences in Kit Steinkellner's world premiere, set in an unspecified time and... More >>

• Bob Baker's Nutcracker

  published November 4, 2010

  Need a novel gift idea that'll be met with more gratitude than yet another candle or cashmere scarf? Borrow someone's children for the morning... More >>

• Live Review: Bilal at the Echoplex

  published Oct 29, 2010

  Barely thirty minutes into his set last night at the Echoplex, Bilal was bringin' it on home--but that's not to say he'd already finished. Sure, his beaten-up black leather jacket had been stripped o... More >>

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  Live Review: Gorillaz at Gibson Amphitheatre

  published Oct 28, 2010

  Say you dreamed up a virtual band with a friend of yours who's a comic book artist. Say a bunch of instruments were lying around waiting for you to pick and pluck at them, and a bunch of friends kept... More >>

• Wiz Khalifa at The Music Box Last Night

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Diddy's not from Wiz Khalifa's home base, Pittsburgh, but he knew what referencing the rapper's runaway hit single "Black and Yellow" would do. Clutching gold-accented black Nikes, he captioned his Tw... More >>

• First Listen: The Foreign Exchange, "Authenticity"

  published Oct 11, 2010

  Being in love is like being underwater. All outside noise is dulled; all light is ethereal. But, when isolated, your lover's dulcet voice can be deceptive, and that shimmering light can be marred by p... More >>

• Live Review: Black Milk at The Roxy

  published Oct 04, 2010

  "We at nine right now; I wanna bring it up to ten," Black Milk instructed the orchestra of fans near the end of his set last night at The Roxy. Actually, they'd already surpassed his directive. The cr... More >>

• Live Review: Freddie Gibbs at Crazy Girls

  published Sep 30, 2010

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• Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill

  published Aug 23, 2010

  As it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now ... More >>

• Live Review: Nneka at the Troubadour

  published Aug 17, 2010

  You imagine Nneka was a quiet, serious child. If she deemed you worthy of a smile, it was a prize awarded. It still is. Not until three songs into her set last night at the Troubadour did she grin; ... More >>

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  Live Review: RZA at the Key Club

  published Aug 16, 2010

  A little more than halfway through his show at the Key Club Saturday night, RZA proclaimed, "If you're not havin' a good time, you're wastin' your time." He then launched into a track from 2003's Bir... More >>

• Streep Tease

  published August 5, 2010

  "Meryl Streep, gay icon?" I asked Google. She's no Judy Garland, but enough affirmative results returned that, when considered alongside... More >>

• Live Review: Blu at the Echo

  published Aug 13, 2010

  You don't really go to a Blu show to watch him perform. Fact is, he's not really much of a performer. Roaming the stage as if it's his bedroom and he's writing the rhyme as he paces, or standing s... More >>

• Streep Tease

  published August 5, 2010

  "Meryl Streep, gay icon?" I asked Google. She's no Judy Garland, but enough affirmative results returned that, when considered alongside... More >>

• Play Dates

  published July 22, 2010

  Relationships would ride so much more smoothly if the elementary survey Will You Be My Girlfriend? Check "Yes" or "No," could be given/taken... More >>

• Othello

  published July 15, 2010

  Shakespeare must’ve been orchestrating from his grave: Three times during Independent Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello... More >>

• Arcadia

  published July 8, 2010

  When sophisticated, rapid-fire dialogue is whizzing about the stage, mathematical and scientific principles are being dissected in the language... More >>

• Love, Loss, and What I Wore

  published May 13, 2010

  Ilene Beckerman's book, on which Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron based their "intimate collection of stories," is the kind you'd grab from the... More >>

• Love, Loss, and What I Wore

  published May 20, 2010

  Ilene Beckerman's book, on which Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron based their "intimate collection of stories," is the kind you'd grab from the... More >>