Rebecca Haithcoat

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Crate-Digging with Dam-Funk … at Best Buy

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: Dâm-Funk and DJ Quik perform at the El Rey, 11-03-11 Dam-Funk always comes prepared. As L.A.'s ambassador to the funk gods, he's always equipped with the booty-rotation essentials he's acquired from years of digging in the crates. (You can bet his show tonight at the El Rey Theatre......
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Rebecca Haithcoat
In our ADD-afflicted society, a Shakespeare production that holds an audience rapt is no small feat. A Noise Within's latest — its first in its sparkling new, not-a-nosebleed-seat-in-the-house facility — does just that, sexing up one of the Bard's most popular comedies and giving it a sprightly staging. With the......
Speak; Credit: Brass

Meet Speak, Who Co-Wrote Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"

Rebecca Haithcoat
It's an August afternoon in Hollywood, and the shaggy-bearded rapper Speak is snacking on mac 'n' cheese in a recording studio at Atlantic Records. He doesn't seem like he belongs here. For starters, he's wearing beach bum attire: sun-bleached peach board shorts and Sperry Top-Siders. Though he came up as......
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Chris Brown – Staples Center – October 20, 2011

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also *More photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Chris Brown at Staples Center" *Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong Chris Brown, T-Pain, Bow Wow, Tyga Staples Center October 20, 2011 Chris Brown seems much older than 22. Of course, he's been famous since he was 16, has......
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Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: *Our review of Chris Brown at Staples Center, October 20, 2011 It was fall 2005, and I was sitting in an Internet café in Berlin. Juelz Santana's "There It Go (The Whistle Song)" was on, and it segued into his feature on a track with some falsetto-voiced kid......
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Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit.

Rebecca Haithcoat
Everlast's new album, Songs of the Ungrateful Living, which is out today, sounds like the kind of record a good ol' boy might play in Alabama while sittin' on the porch and sippin' beer. The former house of Pain frontman is in working-class-hero mode, singing in a gravel-road bass about......
Emma Powell and Bev Killick; Credit: Courtesy Busting Out!

Busting Out!: A Musical Devoted to Boobs, Glorious Boobs

Rebecca Haithcoat
In Busting Out!, creator Emma Powell goes topless. "They're not just sitting there," she says in an interview over the phone. "If they're out, they're bein' used!" Get your mind off porn and Playboy bunnies -- this musical celebrates the average woman's not-so-buoyant breasts, though, ironically, it begins its North......