Everyone should go see "Towelhead"

ashwini — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:07:37 EDT

If Welcome to the Dollhouse is the ultimate treatise on how many humiliating things you can do to one adolescent, Towelhead might just be close behind. The main difference is this: Dawn Weiner was supposed to be unattractive, awkward and pretty much the opposite of sexy. Towelhead's Jasira, on the other hand, is gorgeous, and although only 13, realizing to both her delight and horror that she is a man magnet.

Lauryn Hill's free concert in Brooklyn

ashwini — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:04:02 EDT

Brooklyn loves Ms. Hill—at least, the old Ms. Hill.

Last night, in her first solo performance in Brooklyn, NY, Lauryn Hill played a free concert to over 10,000 eager fans. Lately, Lauryn has been plagued with reports of erratic, if not downright unprofessional, performances. At a recent concert in Oakland, CA, a reporter from the San Jose Mercury News declared that “calling it a fiasco would be an insult to fiascos everywhere.” Similarly, her European tour was derided by journalists and fans alike—unrecognizable arrangements of her hits, odd new material, incessant vocal problems, a bizarre and arrogant on-stage manner.

At last night’s show in Crown Heights, Lauryn fulfilled most of these complaints. But she also played an incredible, amazing, high-energy show that I am truly thankful I got to witness. For free.

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Everyone should go see "Towelhead"

Lauryn Hill's free concert in Brooklyn