Tag: Michael McCarthy

  • Soap Suds Weekly has crowned her “the breakout star of 1998,” but Laurie Saint-Germain hates it when she signs an autograph and the so-called fan is upset that she signed her own name, not that of Sandy Lemonde, her happy-go-lucky character on daytime’s sensational Passionate About Love.

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  • WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY These album picks are in order, one being the album I’ve been listening to the most. 1. Mylène Farmer – Désobéissance, her new album, which is full of punchy electro-pop cuts.  She continues to sound fabulous.  And, by the way, this album is in French. 2. Valerie Renay – Your…

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  • Review by Michael McCarthy Photos by Joshua Bernard (and may not be used elsewhere without permission) Before I get into my review of Ghost’s show at the House of Blues in Boston this past Monday on September 28th, I must praise their opening act, a band called Purson, who hail from London, England.  I’d looked…

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  • I’ve been writing pop culture reviews for a long, long time.   In high school, I published a horror zine called The End and did some horror movie reviews there. (I also worked on my high school newspaper, but I was an artist there, not a writer.) Then in 1995, four years after I graduated…

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  • Our editor-at-large Michael McCarthy had surgery today, so please forgive us if we update a bit less during the next few days.  He is resting at home, though, and we understand he’s going to try to post something here and there.  We are wishing him a speedy recovery.  Comment and wish him well, if you’d…

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