Losing things in translation can be very funny sometimes. The transference of dialects often devolves the original author's meaning into one big game of "telephone," as anyone who has compared the Dead...

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 in the state of Chihuahua as peasants reacted to elevated food prices and exploitation by affluent landowners. Revolutionaries elected Pancho Villa as their First Commander,...

Everything anyone thinks they know about The Residents ought to preface it with the phrase "alleged." In stark contrast to our celebrity-obsessed times, these mysterious avant-garde jokers cloak themselves...

A good friend and fellow music-head once assured me, "Brianna, there's no such thing as 'guilty pleasures.' " This was after I awkwardly confessed how addicted I was to the new Enrique Iglesias record,...

Odds are a crazy person is part of your life. I'm not talking somewhat moody or mildly bipolar, but barking-at-the-fire-hydrant-and-drooling-while-eating-raw-macaroni insane. Perhaps this person asks you...

By all accounts, it appears that the 44-year-old ex-Dead Kennedy front man Jello Biafra needs a hug or three. His indie label Alternative Tentacles is financially strapped after bitter ex-band mates successfully...

Jevetta Steele must be a masochist. For the past two weekends, she has repeatedly enacted one of the most painful and personal parts of her life to an audience of hundreds. In a voice that's stronger than...

The Taming of the Shrew" is not generally considered one of Shakespeare's finest plays. Over the years, its humor between the sexes has been dampened by audiences who have tired of its blatant aggression...