Wisconsin alt-rockers glad making fresh and innovative pop Nick Krewen Special to the KW Record Thursday, November 5, 1998 In the video for the new Garbage single “Special,” guitarist Duke Erikson says the three boys in the band get into an cyber-animated airplane dogfight with their Scottish singer Shirley Manson. Who wins? “Guess,” laughs Erikson, as if to suggest the feisty Edinburgh-based Manson would have it…
Danger And Irony Are The Keys To Penn & Teller’s Illusions Nick Krewen The Toronto Star November 2, 1998 If you ever find the urge to visit Stan Laurel‘s grave at the famous Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, why not stop by the Penn & Teller tombstone just four plots over? Penn & Teller? The brilliant, bent illusionist comedy duo whose entertainingly unorthodox sleights-of-hand have earned…
PUBLISHED IN THE KITCHENER WATERLOO RECORD ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1998 Nick Krewen For the KW Record October 30, 1998 For their upcoming show at the Centre In The Square, the inimitable Penn & Teller promise to heal polyester, conduct a “seance opera” to invoke the spirit of escape wizard Harry Houdini, and colorfully make a rabbit disappear using an expensive shredder. But the greatest trick…
Nick Krewen Twenty-five years together is usually considered a milestone. In the case of rock and roll legends Aerosmith, it’s a miracle. Excessive bouts of drug and alcohol abuse, as documented by the band themselves in the excellent and intriguing 1997 autobiography Walk This Way, legal entanglements, personality conflicts and even a partial breakup in the late ’70s and early ’80s are…
Exclusive!!! Nick Krewen September 29, 2008 Even though he’s raised over $14 million to help the plight of the American farmer with his annual Farm Aid concerts, country music legend Willie Nelson fears his efforts may be futile. “I think it’s a losing battle,” says Nelson, who headlines Farm Aid ’98 with co-founders Neil Young and John Mellencamp this Saturday (October 3) at the New World Music Theatre at Tinley…
