Hatsune Miku / Anamanaguchi @ Hammerstein Ballroom Patrick Slevin July 20, 2016 Concerts NEW YORK—Major shifts in technology have always changed music, whether in its sound or its performance, and often in both. The introduction of the steel-framed piano had an outsized impact on classical and ... Read More...
Enslaved @ Irving Plaza Patrick Slevin March 16, 2016 Concerts MANHATTAN, NY—A warm December night made coat check unnecessary at Irving Plaza for the oddly-matched bill of Between The Buried and Me and Enslaved. On paper, it was a sensible combination of progressive m... Read More...
David Bowie: 1947 – 2016 Patrick Slevin January 13, 2016 Columns (Photo by Mark Weiss) A man so out of time and place, he created his own and changed all of ours. And he did it again, and again, and again. But no more. The singular rockstar outcast, David Bowie, ha... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Budget Ideology Fails Outside Of A Vacuum Patrick Slevin February 16, 2011 Columns Poll Shows Americans Balance Budget Better When They're Actually Given A Budget To Balance As a March 4 deadline looms for approval of a new budget (as well as the humiliating process of raising the debt cei... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Freedom Isn’t Free, And Neither Is Oil Patrick Slevin February 2, 2011 Columns 1 Nobody loves a despot when he's down and out. Or when there are thousands of rioters outside of his opulent palace. The recent ousting of Tunisian "President" Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and the current (as of t... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: The Job Killer In Me Is The Job Killer In You Patrick Slevin January 13, 2011 Columns God, all this work is killing me. Ever feel like you should quit your job and raise llamas in South America for a living? Even if you don't have one right now? I get that all the time, although I've no knowledg... Read More...
Interview with Patton Oswalt: Combing The Wasteland Patrick Slevin January 5, 2011 Interviews Patton Oswalt may be known to the wider world as the voice of Remy the Rat from Ratatouille or Spencer Olchin from the long-running sitcom King Of Queens, but fans of clever standup have known him primarily as ... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Fuck The Rich; Or, Polls Show Most Americans Agree With This Headline Patrick Slevin December 15, 2010 Columns As Chris Rock once said (over and over again, as is his style), "I'm not talking 'bout rich, I'm talking ‘bout wealthy." Everyday Americans have a different perspective about who's rich and who isn't. Are you r... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Diplomatic Immunity, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Trust Ambassadors Patrick Slevin December 8, 2010 Columns The substantive details of state department cables released by the "roguish" website Wikileaks and the context thereof have almost eclipsed every other news story this week, even as unemployment benefits are ru... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: The Grim Future Of Charity Patrick Slevin November 24, 2010 Columns 2 One look into Jimmy Wales' creepy eyes on any page of the Wikipedia and an overlooked side effect of the world's pursestrings' drawing becomes painfully clear. You're not donating as much as you used to. ... Read More...
