From Ricki Lake doing "The Roach" to "Cootie" on a Broadway stage, Hairspray has entertained audiences for over 30 years in some form or fancy. The John Waters creation has gone from a gritty full-length movie to a colorful musical on The Great White Way, led by a girl that isn't society's standard of beauty and grace. But there is something about the character, Tracy Turnblad, the larger-than-life teenage girl whose dream of dancing on The Corny Collin Show makes us root for

Shame, an English post-punk band, played at Sister Bar in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 5, 2022. I attended this concert and was pleasantly surprised at the energy in the room. The audience seemed to get wrapped in the enthusiasm that lead singer Charlie Steen and fellow bandmates Eddie Green, Charlie Forbes, Josh Finerty, and Sean Coyle-Smith carried with them into the venue from across the pond. With Steen on the microphone, sweating and singing hit songs from their l