May 29, 2019
If you have not heard Erica Rhodes’s comedy, you have the perfect excuse to dive in on June 18, when her new album, <em>Sad Lemon</em>, comes out. Rhodes has been performing in some fashion since she was a kid, modeling at five and playing the voice of Garrison Keillor’s conscience on <em>Prairie Home Companion</em>...
May 22, 2019
Carole Montgomery is 61, and she won’t hesitate to mention her age onstage. That is somewhat unusual in an industry obsessed with youth. But Montgomery is proud of her age. She has been doing comedy for roughly forty years, slugging it out in the clubs and balancing stand-up and family. She...
May 16, 2019
There is so much to explore in Karen Haglof’s career. She started out playing with a band called The Crackers in a Minneapolis scene that included Curtiss A, The Suicide Commandos, The Suburbs, and Flamingo before bands like Soul Asylum, the Replacements, and Husker Du put that scene on the map nationally. If, like...
May 9, 2019
If you follow the Department of Tangents Blog, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some of Christina Raia’s work. I featured her delightful ghost story <a href="http://nickzaino.com/departmentoftangents/2017/10/23/daily-horror-film-fest-hello/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Hello</em></a> on October 23 of 2017,...