The Washington Times reviews Liz’s concert

The Washington Times is many things, but known for great arts coverage it is not.

That said, this line from a review of Liz Phair’s concert at the Birchmere may be one of the best descriptions of her and her work that I’ve ever come across:

In such a stripped-and-clipped setting, the singer’s decade-strong catalog came across tough and tender, kind of like Miss Phair herself — a pint-sized charmer with a hazardously sexy persona and a potty mouth.

That’s deeply cool, in a nerdish writer way. You’ve got a rhyme, alliteration and a hardcore-fans-only allusion to a popular early bootleg of Phair’s work. (Look, this is better than the time at the News Messenger where we sat around goobing about the semicolon for over an hour.)

And yes, I’m still a Washingtonian in my brain, so I get to say “the Birchmere” as though everyone would know what and where that is.

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