Author: Amber Frost Archives: 02/2015

With Seasonal Affective Disorder slowly crushing my soul into oblivion, I have been absolutely starved for some aural “sunshine.” The Beach Boys are the obvious…

I’ve been attempting to track down the entirety of Luciano Pavarotti’s Pavarotti and Friends, a 2002 benefit concert for Angolan refugees, ever since I saw…

Oh come on dude! At least tidy up a little bit first! John Waters calls it “hilarious.” David Sedaris says it’s “just perfect.” Lurid Digs…

I’m always impressed by the human ability and impulse to create art, even under the most dire of conditions, and it’s difficult to imagine a…

Austerity, repression, police brutality and skyrocketing unemployment–young people the world over have so much to fight for, but it’s the protesters of Bolivia who have…

A very witty woman once said, “There is no hive vagina,” meaning that my own femaleness does not make me qualified to tell you how…

1969 WITCH protest in front of Chicago Federal Building. Of all the second wave feminists who exploded into action over the 1960s and 70s, no…

Dangerous Minds has written before about Neil Young’s enthusiasm for model trains, his investment in the Lionel model train company and his development of (and…

I always argue that Billy Joel should be embraced as an artist of masculine, heterosexual camp–like a Broadway Bruce Springsteen, perhaps (not that Born to…