In third grade, our class did State reports. There were 16 kids in the class, so there were plenty of interesting states to go around, but we chose Kansas--if only we’d known that Judy Garland never actually lived there. The report required a section on tourism and because--at the age of 6--we had not yet learned to bullshit, we decided to torture our (kind, wonderful, sweet) mother with what she termed a "brainstorming" session. It proved futile. "But it’s SO BORING," we cried over and over, "There’s nothing to say!" more ›

Fate, karma, kismet -- call it what you will but the week before A Fine Frenzy came to town a friend in Switzerland sent us a YouTube video of her song "Rangers." We listened, found the album, and two days later noticed she was coming to town that Sunday. Here is the video, just so you can follow along:

Gotham. Motown. The Big Easy. The Windy City. The City of Angels… The Emerald City? more ›