So let me paint you a picture...
The paint doesn’t come from one of those expensive, exclusive art supply stores. It comes from Lowe’s Home Improvement. Store #0780 in...
They call him the Rapper...
Donnie Iris is sitting in what’s supposed to be his dressing room on the second floor of the Rivers Casino. Down the hall from the Grand...
Bad Apples
The people are standing, sitting, heads down, waiting in line, eyes buried in iPhones. Dockers tucked into crisp blue Oxford button downs...
The fight
“Tell me to be brave.” Jarrell “The Samurai” Brackett is in the basement of the Priory Grand Hall on Pressley Street in the North Side of...
Backstage
The guys are hanging out in the dressing room, the green room, the whatever room. Donnie Iris, Dave Granati, Ricky Granati, Hermie...
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime...
Kenny Chesney is at Heinz Field. White cowboy hat. Sleeveless shirt. Jeans. Leader of the “No Shoes Nation” and wearing two cowboy boots....
The Delay
“Oh, they are getting me to Dallas,” she says, white earphones plugged into a black Samsung. Because seriously, a windshield wiper motor?...
More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows
“Hey,” Joe Grushecky says, resting the Stratocaster on his knee as he picks up his iPhone, the one he just had to plug in because he has...
Of Men and Models
There are nine models in Room 304 at the Ace Hotel and one of them needs some duct tape. Like, now. “My nipples are going to show.” “Do...
The Rehearsal
There’s a ProScrub automatic floor scrubber and an orange, Igloo cooler shoved into a back corner of what began its life as a Catholic Churc
