Most Popular
- The Dallas Theater Center's World Premiere, Give It Up! Asks The Audience To Give Up More Than Two And A Half Hours To Its Redbull-buzzed Idiocy
- Pocket Sandwich Theatre's Fangs For The Memories Revives A Biting Comedy; Artisan's Swing! Falls Flat
- Winspear's August:Ossage County And Watertower's Laughter On The 23rd Floor Find Fun And Fury In Tempers Run Amok
- Richardson Theatre Centre And Onstage in Bedford Present More Jewish Comedy Than You Can Shake A Shiksa At
- Next Stop, Laughter
Recent Blog Posts
Debra Medina Delivers Potential "Early Shocker" to Guv Rick and Kay Bailey? Yowza!
Tue Feb 9, 6:22 PM
Turning Washington Mutual's "Modern Ruin" on Greenville Ave. Into Artistic Inspiration
Tue Feb 9, 5:00 PM
Vox Pop, Rd. 1: JMack vs. AnonymousCulture
Tue Feb 9, 4:41 PM
Eisley Announces Split From Warner Bros.
Tue Feb 9, 4:10 PM
Okay, Football's Over. On to 2010 and What?
Tue Feb 9, 8:45 AM
Saints 31, Colts 17: My Top 20 Super Bowl XLIV Observations
Mon Feb 8, 7:45 AM
Pho From Home: Ngoc Suong
Tue Feb 9, 4:34 PM
How 'Bout Them Knockers: Tiff's Treats
Mon Feb 8, 6:32 PM
National Features >
Houston Press
Hate to Say We Told You So
A year before Toyota's massive recall, we published a lengthy investigation of problems with the Prius.
By Paul Knight
Miami New Times
Sex, Drugs, Gambling--and Football
Heading to Miami for the Super Bowl? Don't leave the hotel without our guide to vice in the Magic City.
By Michael J. Mooney and Gus Garcia-Roberts
City Pages
Life in the Blue Zone
Daredevil Dan Buettner's latest trick? Bringing the secrets of immortality to Minnesota.
By Erin Carlyle
Phoenix New Times
The Greatest Dane
Bigger than Shaq and proud of it, the world's tallest dog may be living in Tucson.
By James King
On Rush
Share
By Patrick Williams
Published on August 09, 2007 at 12:40am
I was loading up the snark gun, getting ready to wail on all the old folks who might be planning to head out to catch the Rush show this Saturday at Smirnoff Music Centre. (A sample: Who's the tour sponsor, Ex-Lax?) Then I remembered something, namely, me at 14, huddled on a shag carpet in 1976 in a tiny bedroom in a small mining town, desperate to get out, crazy with boredom, dropping a needle into "Fly by Night." For three and a half minutes, rock 'n' roll bliss, transported from Nowhere, Illinois, to Anywhere Else by Geddy Lee's tenor. And for that, I'm gonna repay Messrs. Lee, Peart and Lifeson with some faux-hip alt-weekly sarcasm? Fuck that. Is Rush a little overwrought and pretentious? Maybe so, but that's because it's ROCK, stupid...or at least that used to be rock before it became alt, which grew the pretension and shrunk the musicianship. So be proud, Rush fans, and when the time comes to sing along with "Closer to the Heart," be proud and sing it loud. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 to $75. Visit ticketmaster.com.
Sat., Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Now Click This
