Before, it had been an occasional crackle of gunfire, the steady rhythms of .50-caliber machine guns with the .60 s answering in short riffs. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crack up as she plays another few riffs—trilling treble to rumbling bass. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And then a sound riffed into that silence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stepped easy, riffing with Styx about our new plan. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He raised his pipes to his mouth and played a quick riff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His hip-hop riff on Alexander Hamilton had exploded into a Broadway sensation, and with it he’d become a global superstar. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Repeated them until they became his blues riff and he could hear Wah-Wah Nita’s hot electric licks whine in between his lyrics. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A high-pitched howl wailed over frenetic guitar riffs, followed by booming drums. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then Elijah started playing a great riff on his bass, which turned out to be the opening of “Seven Nation Army.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He’d play off of their riffs and not on top of them, unless they played a tidal wave of chords where everyone jammed together. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I do one more bass riff—the fingers of my left hand dancing on the deeper-toned keys. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I recognized the opening riffs of “Change,” by John Waite. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was running his fingers over the piano keys in a dramatic thrumming riff, either Chopin or Liszt—I wasn’t sure which. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Pez has, as promised, six matching silk kimonos waiting in the limo, each one embroidered across the back with a different riff on a name from a movie. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Together, they played a sweet, sleepy blues riff. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and I riffed about it all the way down the block. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Magic Jay, Jimmy L’s secret agent name, was riffed from his favorite basketball player, the legendary Magic Johnson. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One of these rapid, high-note riffs that black boys make up as they go while sweeping, shoveling, or just walking along. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

That familiar relentless beat and exotic, yet somehow ominous riff fills the air. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Summoning up her courage, Shanti sang an Eastern-influenced riff and broke into a rap about living on an island, eating grubs, rescuing pirates, and eating weird berries. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was riffing about on his acoustic guitar. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Zach, do you like pears? Would you eat a pear?” he asks, just a beat after his opening riff. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As in "Dark of the Moon," Brains' bad attitude and sarcastic riffs bring welcome comic relief. In 'Transformers: Age of Extinction,' things get Bayed — big time

There are verbal riffs in the play that show their life to be hard and ugly in the moment. Busy director Sheila Daniels helms 'Dancing at Lughnasa' at Seattle Rep 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z

He also appeared in a “Call Me Maybe” riff. Watch Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and More Dance to Carly Rae Jepsen's 'I Really Like You' 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

He’s gotten the band back together in a perfectly balanced performance of oldies and new riffs, respecting all that’s come before but never getting mired in minutiae or fatuous nostalgia. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Griffin is no stranger to the fashion tweaking franchise, in which comedians and other style mavens riff on their opinions of celebs' red carpet couture. Kathy Griffin will become new 'Fashion Police' host 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The first word of interest in his riff is “they,” which he goes on to define as “everyone.” What Ethan Hawke Gets Wrong—and Right—About Superhero Movies 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

This spot was made around that time, and it’s a wild one—it could be a sardonic anti-bourgeois riff from a Buñuel film. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

To a funky riff in a minor key, the song tells female fans that a star like Jackson is both irresistible and untouchable. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

This plays into the idea of minimalism, she said, as each note must be open to interpretation or a quick riff. Rediscovering the Joy of Japanese Art in London 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

It kicks off with that memorable three-note descending riff and chugs ahead with the agitated, expectant feel of a junkie on the prowl, for smack or the money with which to buy it. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The result is yet another prickly psychedelic folk classic from the Byrds, with airtight harmonies and riffs that unfurl with delicious, blurry tension. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

So we just started doodling and drawing and riffing off each other. Proenza designers reflect on getting off the ‘hamster wheel’ 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Halfway through, the piece obsessively explores frenetic riffs and rhythms, settling into grooves for long stretches, though passages of eerie harmonies lend a touch at once angelic and fearsome. Review: Revisiting a Throbbing Classic of Electronic Music 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The bummer — for me, though perhaps not for you — about most of Mr. Lethem’s riffs on his idols is that his tastes and mine, plotted on a Venn diagram, would hardly overlap at all. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z

But she has a slouchy, unhurried riff and a certain aplomb to carry her through — at least until a final punk blast while she rediscovers sisterhood. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Independent Film Channel columnist Matt Singer riffed on this notion, proposing a "Five Films" test for directors. The Fantastic Five 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z

"Cheers" is being adapted for the stage riffing on the Bostonian themes and sexual tension that powered the wildly popular '80s TV sitcom. Where everybody knows your name: 'Cheers' coming to stage 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Simon riffed, “his father wrote in spray paint: ‘I’m at so-and-so’s house. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

I'm putting it here for two reasons: 1 – the swagger 2 – the bass riff. Readers recommend: Songs about shoes 2010-04-08T23:01:00Z

The Bordelons of “Queen Sugar” represent a modern, more racially conscious and down-to-earth riff on the Ewings of “Dallas,” and the show also serves as a progressive means for DuVernay to diversify the medium. 12 Great TV Series by Film Directors 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Can you just very quickly riff on one of the best things about being middle-aged? I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z

Koala met Del to riff on some musical and lyrical concepts. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z

Shifting, often rapid-fire riffs are accompanied by percussion and chanting vocals, and the result is furious, trance-like dance music that never lets up. The Karindula Sessions: Tradi-Modern Sounds from Southeast Congo ? review 2011-03-31T21:46:00Z

Szewczyk's brilliant new "Cookies: The New Classics" delivers on its title with mind blowing riffs on beloved favorites — that also happen to be entirely approachable to make. These no bake fudge squares have 3 ingredients, and one is booze 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Katz-Bohen played a guitar riff that sounded like a car crash crossed with a blues lick. Uptown Rapture: Debbie Harry at the Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

What emerged from my oven was a meltingly spectacular riff on a Southern classic, a dessert somehow simultaneously fancy and homey. This riff on a classic Southern pie is comfort in a bite—and the leftovers taste great for breakfast 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

And in part it’s that the interlaced story structure starts paying off, as earlier scenes get context and the season develops its own running gags, rather than riffing on fan-pleasing oldies. The New Arrested Development Is Dark, Uneven, and Frustrating. Can We Have Another? 2013-05-29T17:59:42Z

“Meet Cute” complicates its conceit by introducing elaborate plot mechanics involving a tanning-bed time machine, which results in a number of boring expository flashbacks and, later, an extended riff on “The Butterfly Effect.” ‘Meet Cute’ Review: Live. Date. Repeat. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

"People naturally want to talk about and riff on things that are internet memes and cultural touch points, like movies, music, and TV," Bugbee said. TV film 'Sharknado' inches to cult status with midnight showings 2013-08-03T00:17:03Z

Not far from the boxes hang Husain’s colored lithographs riffing on Hindu mythology. D.C. exhibit showcases artwork inspired by writings of Octavio Paz

Melancholy does not just mean slow here; Rondeau unleashes burning fireworks in a feverish Giovanni Picchi dance, which he riffs on twice more over the course of this wonderful album. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

You can hear it in her effortless riffs and runs within each measure, the way her voice curls around the orchestral melody. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

The finished script, submitted to the ineffable judgment of the M.P.A.A.’s Production Code Administration, met with a reception only slightly less bizarre than some of the satirical riffs in the movie itself. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Their song is an utterly transparent riff on his con man’s appeal: “You gotta believe in something, why not believe in me?” ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“We were getting really excited,” her older sister, Molly Daniel, recalled on a recent video call, especially about “Stabilise,” an antic number built atop a guitar riff as intricate and tightly wound as a labyrinth. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

In "House," she delights in the work of architects who repurpose old buildings or riff on iconic forms to create what Keaton calls "a kind of cutting-edge revision of our shared past." | Diane Keaton 2012-10-04T13:00:42Z

I do like fruitcake movies — not as in the heavy nut-filled Christmas confections, but as in insanely visionary riffs that challenge the status quo in this, the most timid, stolid period in cinema history. Sucker Punch Review: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid 2011-03-25T11:45:00Z

There would be ham hocks and black-eyed peas cooking on the stove, he laughingly recalls in the film, but he would be told he couldn’t have any until he got the riff right. ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

The song celebrates individuality and marching to the beat of one’s drum, or guitar riff. They Won Eurovision. Can They Conquer the World? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

There are a number of riffs on the original microwaved Peeps experiment, the most popular probably being "Peeps Jousting." The science and spectacle of microwaving Peeps 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

There are lots of other abrupt rhythm changes, from tender moments to pratfalls and Woody Allen-ish existential riffs. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z

It’s taken her fans almost as long to absorb all the intricately wound contradictions, political theories and jazzy riffs inside her masterpiece. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Wherever they did, local riffs on recipes — then riffs upon riffs — were born. In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Clad in a baggy yellow top, Smith and the band exemplified what works in rock music: edgy guitar riffs, rapid-fire tempos and a carefree ethos that appeals to young listeners. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The suit claims "Sorry" uses a vocal riff from her song "Ring the Bell." Justin Bieber, Skrillex sued for copyright infringement 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

It also riffed on the nature of drawing itself, with a character, in a very meta moment, attempting to bust out of the comic book frame. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Jean Paul Gaultier , a purveyor of downtown style, called his collection “Bourgeoisie sans Age,” or “ageless” giving a witty riff on beehive chignons in the silver gray of a mature grand dame. Special Report: Fashion: The Discreet Return of the Bourgoisie 2011-03-06T18:55:47Z

When Reiner made mention of an original cut running seven hours, including three hours of nothing but faux-interview riffing, the cheer in response suggested that they would be more than happy to watch it. This Is Spinal Tap at 35: the faux-rockers reunite at Tribeca film festival 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

No matter how big the band gets, its formula rests on simple, brawny riffs and rolling, tumbling drums that swing hard. Concert review: Black Keys at the United Center 2012-03-20T14:36:00Z

Buck's guitar-playing was as much about arpeggios and ringing overtones as more conventional rock riffing. Post-punk landscape: Before there was a Nirvana, R.E.M. blazed the trail 2011-09-22T16:34:37Z

And the finale, which, on the surface, seems a rustic dance, here sounded modern and wild, with the violin fixating on obsessive rhythmic riffs against the swirling orchestra. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The tapestries, called The Vanity of Small Differences, are a riff on William Hogarth's series of paintings The Rake's Progress. Grayson Perry gives The Vanity of Small Differences to the nation 2012-11-30T19:19:20Z

Rock is known for his biting political and cultural commentary. According to a review from the Indianapolis Star, you can expect Rock to riff on religion, his divorce, President Donald Trump and more. Chris Rock coming to Seattle for two shows 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Easy to finish: smoked swordfish dip, a riff on chips and dip that finds pickled chilies in the creamy spread and long, fried plantains for scooping. Toro Toro: a steakhouse where you shouldn’t order the steak

"For five or six years, we'd been riffing on these ideas," explains Mitchell. Column: Inside West Hollywood's feminist haunted house: Zombie folk singers and body-positive vampires 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The show also included sculptures and neon-light wall pieces that riffed on Caravaggio, Manet and maybe Bruce Nauman with Black protagonists. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Such absurd riffs tumble out of her mouth as quickly as Robin Williams erupted impressions. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

A small gift shop sells souvenirs that riff on the band’s discography and imagery. In the Bay Area, the Grateful Dead will live — and twirl — forever 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The album is largely just her singular voice and guitar, but it pummels with intimacy and tape hiss as raw whispers turn to wails and tinny riffs clang until they break. Feist Wants to Ask You Some Questions About Sadness 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

“My brain feels bruised with numb surprise,” he wrote, riffing on a Doors lyric. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

This rap duo’s name, which riffs on that of a firearm manufacturer, sets the tone for their music. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Clinton led an hourlong panel titled “Here’s to the Ladies,” a riff on a Stephen Sondheim lyric from the song “The Ladies Who Lunch” from the musical “Company.” At BroadwayCon, Hillary Clinton Celebrates Women in the Theater 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

This is the land where bass and guitar amount to the same thing, just sources of a low, squelched riffs, reaching back to the early ’90s, to music by Big Black and the Melvins. Playlist: Surfboards, Harmonies and Sheet Metal 2010-09-19T20:25:00Z

He offered a riff on that ubiquitous phrase, while lamenting the fact that patriotism and consumerism had been so readily conflated. George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Watanabe has riffed on all kinds of things: punk, pinstripes, denim. Fashion Review: Céline, Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe: Fashion Review 2012-10-01T01:35:05Z

“We’re riffing on things that are in the books, that are done seriously in the books, but then we look at them in a funnier way.” Will Ferrell promises smart jokes and slapstick in 'Holmes & Watson' 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Their five-track debut EP, This One's Different, features the kind of basic riff pop that for whatever reasons goes down a treat live but rarely shifts records. New band of the day ? No 1,061: Howler 2011-07-13T16:14:36Z

However the piano riff from “Over My Head” found its way into “Closer,” one assumes that the Chainsmokers are hoping to keep the resemblance quiet. The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” and the Familiar Feeling of Pop 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

A rock band, its thundering riffs seemingly born of the military percussion. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

Mr. Coogan has made a career partly by riffing on narcissism and he’s in fine self-loving form, as is Mr. Brydon. | ?The Trip': 2 Pairs of Sharp Elbows On White Tablecloths 2011-06-09T23:20:20Z

Her riff on Mary Byrd’s fear of flying is hilarious. Debut novel by Lisa Howorth is a Southern mosaic 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

In “The Only Thing,” over a barreling electric guitar riff that hints at Led Zeppelin, Matthews is desperate to “Crawl out of this skin I’m living in/Crawl out of my mind into the outside.” Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Strangely, her version replaces the signature slashing opening riff, as she employs her Ronnie Spector-ish pipes to make the song all her own. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Hunters, a young indie rock band out of Brooklyn, sounds like most punk-flavored bands in Williamsburg: simple repetitive lyrics, frenetic drums, repeated guitar riffs that revolve around a single eighth-note motif, a pedaling bass. ArtsBeat Blog: Relationship Tension, Over Screeching Feedback 2011-10-19T05:46:55Z

These riff sessions do not compensate in any way for all the destructively selfish decisions they have made or the people they have hurt. ‘Succession’ Series Finale Recap: The Dotted Line 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

And the best episodes weren't just a bunch of riffs strung together. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z

The core of his online presence is the VlogBrothers channel, where once a week he and Hank exchange slightly manic but humorous and sincere riffs on science and life. John and Hank Green Bring Their Show to Carnegie Hall 2013-01-16T23:22:53Z

It just starts with one idea – usually a lyric or guitar riff, then I just try to create a song that excites me in some way. New Band Up North: Joe Banfi 2013-02-18T17:00:01Z

O’Brien is at heart a showman, feeding off the crowd, constantly riffing, deflecting, trying voices, insult humor, self-mockery, letting a raging insecurity drive his humor. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

That face, that tough, steely look, has been a wide-open opportunity for would-be comics to poke fun at Maroney’s “Oh, hell no” countenance, and to riff on her “mean girl”  persona. McKayla Maroney isn’t a “mean girl” 2012-08-07T15:45:00Z

Morisseau spins a nice riff on this, even if she doesn’t always reveal surprising information surprisingly. It’s the 1960s, baby. Who do you love? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Introductory riffs on things that happened the day of, like the Saturday night debates. “SNL” has Weekend Update trouble: What this behind-the-scenes story really reveals about the floundering fake news 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

This riff was picked up by a generation. Joe Mantell obituary 2010-10-12T17:04:00Z

No. I don't see the sense in matching your music up to old blues riffs. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

“Colbert was riffing,” said Ms. Messing, who wore an ivory gown, cigarette pants and a metal belt. Debra Messing on the Talk Show Circuit 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Like all good caricatures, these interviews capture something of the truth, even if with exaggeration, and, as in all good interviews, the subjects speak freely, as if they were riffing unguardedly among friends. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

If you haven't, well, there's still some catchy riffs worth listening to. Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles: 'I'm out on the open road now' 2012-10-28T19:18:08Z

"I wanted a riff that really moved, that people would really get, and would bring a smile to their faces, but when I played it with the band, it really went into overdrive," he said. Led Zeppelin wins 'best guitar riff' 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Complex piano riff, drums played with brushes … this was the Raincoats circa 1984, no longer wilfully shambolic, but tight and focused. Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z

The 10-minute Pyramids is a giant jolt of drama, moving from euphoric rave riffs to eerie Twin Peaks R&B, while the hushed Bad Religion is a hold-your-breath moment. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-10T18:34:00Z

Each chord unleashed reactive bursts of quiet, scurrying figures and riffs that eventually coalesced into action. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z

The second, “Simple Sugars,” is full of frenetic blips, with the instruments often playing in-sync riffs and screeching sonorities. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

But this good-humored riffing is mostly entertaining even when it isn’t enlightening, and Stew is in good, solid voice. Review: ‘Notes of a Native Song’ Is Stew’s Homage to James Baldwin 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the Prodigy's sampling of it, everybody knows the lyric and main riff. Trojan Sound System's favourite tracks 2013-01-11T18:00:00Z

The stories are minimally affecting—mostly just little riffs of dialogue to set up the next song. It’s “A Very Murray Christmas,” indeed: The holiday special wallows in its star’s wry charm 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A riff on Deborah Madison's winter squash soup, this version uses a little less chile than hers. 30 easy soup recipes to slurp all winter long 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

“We had nothing! They wouldn’t sell us food, remember? We had money! American money,” Odenkirk riffed. Jon Stewart’s 8 most beloved comedian guests 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

May, a fan of the classic Bing Crosby/Bob Hope road movies like Road to Morocco, offered a new comedic riff on that concept, with a twist. 15 summer "blockbusters" that completely tanked at the box office 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

We’re just riffing back and forth and some guy’s sitting there, listening to us, and he’s like, “You guys are funny. You guys should do something with it.” Desus and Mero Are Cool With ‘Young Sheldon’ 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

It’s about race but not just about race, and some of Key & Peele’s best sketches, in the early episodes I previewed are riffs on the idea of calculating your identity depending on who’s around. TV Tonight: Key and Peele 2012-01-31T17:36:03Z

There are episodes of minimalist repetitions and yearning melodic flights before the dotted-note riffs return, in a transfigured state, to end the work. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

His most explicit reference to gender relations comes in the form of an extended riff about his new girlfriend, an unnamed and decidedly apolitical Danish physicist. Aziz Ansari’s New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

A sculptural red-lacquer-and-black-oak cocktail table riffs on a traditional Chinese style, while a bold ebony-and-oak bench, still Eastern in inspiration, bears linear cutouts that nod to the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Fendi Casa partners with decorator François-Joseph Graf 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

"Oh Nimai …" Joya would expostulate with affection, as he held the floor with another great riff that combined oddity with minutiae. Nimai Chatterji obituary 2011-04-03T17:18:33Z

But then post-punk, new wave, and my beloved new romantics rejected other stuff: the guitar riffs, the put-on sincerities, the anti-intellectual. Writing family stories: Jason Tougaw on his memoir 'The One You Get' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Awake is all needling riffs and strafing snare rolls; Morals' chorus rises like a clenched fist out of hot tar. Iceage – review 2013-02-27T17:47:07Z

A riff on Marino’s arty design at the brand’s Paris flagship on Avenue Montaigne, the new, north-of-the-border location mixes Dior’s accessories and outfits with contemporary art and far-out furnishings. Look Inside Dior’s First Canadian Store 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ali presents Shirley with physical flair, and the screenwriters put Shirley’s words verbatim in Ali’s mouth, including a riff about jazz piano players demeaning themselves. Green Book: the true story behind the Oscar-buzzed road trip drama 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The song, a riff on the tune “Maria” from the Broadway musical “West Side Story,” lists the names of all 78 of Puerto Rico’s towns in its lyrics. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Latin stars sing for Puerto Rico relief 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Songs like "Paranoid," and "War Pigs," with their dark lyrics and heavy guitar riffs changed rock and roll and inspired many bands. Ozzy: Booze, not politics, prevented Israeli gigs 2010-09-27T15:21:00Z

If you have the right font and the right photo, any quote can seem real,” Oliver riffed. John Oliver rips politicians for faking Founding Fathers quotes: “Did you know Alexander Hamilton once said ‘I’m not here to make friends, I’m here to win’?” 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Psy Ops” has gnashing, dissonant, trebly guitar riffs over pounding drum syncopations, with Nadia Garofalo wedging telegraphic little bursts of lyrics — “now pay attention/your anger/fear/has got me” — wedged tightly into the groove. The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. von Trier is impossible, but his movie is one of the year’s best, as is Mr. Kaurismaki’s comic riff on the French Resistance film. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival, Now Bigger, Beckons 2011-09-29T22:00:15Z

Most of the new tracks don’t immediately announce riffs and verses; they linger over intros, coalesce, metamorphose and drift away. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The solo is staged within two octaves, dipping only once as low as the area of middle C, spelled by infrequent breath-like rests, a minimal reliance on triplets, and a few heady riff episodes. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ghomeshi, mussy-haired and scruffy of beard, said he was especially proud of his daily monologues, delivered in his genial baritone in a riffing rush over background music. Jian Ghomeshi Brings His Show, ‘Q,’ to New York 2012-07-20T17:10:39Z

Asked about the similarity, Nesmith, 72, told Pop & Hiss, “Yeah, it’s the same riff – a little different way around the track.” Premiere: Jackie Greene's 'Light Up Your Window' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

That was a bit of a comedy riff, of course. 'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Premieres Jan. 19 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Later he lampooned Trump’s post-Globes tweet with an extended riff about Meryl Streep’s “many uninspiring and overrated performances.” Winner by upset: Jimmy Kimmel nails his first Oscar outing, but was overshadowed by a fantastic gaffe 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

The track is dominated by a never-ending bass riff and non-stop hi-hat beat, and on top of this, arranger Paul Riser laid violins, cellos, harp and reverberating trumpet. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

Nick Zinner’s guitar riff snakes through the song like a lit fuse as Karen O croons devilish come-ons like, “Lay your red hand on me as I go.” M.I.A. Takes Aim at Fame, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

There are buildings that became cornerstones of cinematic landscapes, in films like “Blade Runner” and “Pulp Fiction,” the basis for the show’s wittiest visual riff. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Distorted guitar riffs were a staple, but the best songs of the evening — the ominous “My Song No. 5” and hip-shaker “The Wire” — were propelled primarily by keyboard riffs and layered percussion. Haim causes sonic explosion at Paramount | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

In the opening scenes in Sicilia, the music sounds almost Indian, with hints of ragas and cyclic riffs. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

The more traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked pagoda chimes, all splendidly played. Review: Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

His nephew, Jake Clemons, took over many of his riffs and solos, delivering a strong approximation of his tone, though only a portion of his presence. Music Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Izod Center 2012-04-04T10:27:12Z

The band, which plays in an aggressive style that features metal guitar riffs at the furious pace of hardcore punk, was scheduled to tour the country with several other metal acts starting later this month. Singer arrested in Calif. murder-for-hire plot 2013-05-08T15:23:16Z

As with all of Swallow's work, it's a riff on the paradoxes of the still life, fixing perishable earthly delights forever and celebrating the joys of being alive while warning that all things must pass. Artist of the week 122: Ricky Swallow 2011-01-19T17:38:52Z

Considering one of those eight is a riff on soft rock band America’s “A Horse With No Name,” that’s no small feat. CD review: Michael Jackson’s ‘Xscape’ feels shockingly vital 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Two scruffy, balding Britons, clutching a miniature banana as a make-believe microphone, riffing on the day’s games. ‘Men in Blazers,’ a Whimsical Soccer Show on ESPN 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

They yelped and howled brief songs — singing about feral, explosive lust — built on terse riffs, with Mr. Collins supplying jittery fuzz-toned leads. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z

In “Growing,” Schumer delivers her signature dry humor, riffing on women, marriage and pregnancy. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Amy Schumer Growing’ and ‘The Village’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Its writer, Bob Gale, thinks it's because it offers an extended riff on that universal moment when you twig that your parents were children once, too. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z

“Horace and Pete” might dive into the past or riff on the week’s headlines. ‘Horace and Pete,’ Keeping You on the Edge of Your Seat, Right Up to Last Call 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The recording of "Taurus," which contains a riff very similar to the opening of "Stairway" is significantly different from videos of experts playing the sheet music. Led Zeppelin's Page dodges court questions, riffs air guitar 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

"It kicks into its groove from the first second, with some delicious riffs along with backing vocals that make the chorus very sing-a-along" – soundblab.com. New band of the day ? No 984: If the Kids 2011-03-11T16:07:06Z

Later that night, Brown had to perform in Father Comes Home From the Wars, a play by Suzan-Lori Parks riffing on The Odyssey. Sterling K Brown: 'I allow myself to think about winning an Emmy' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

The playlets are not necessarily historical; many are riffs from modern characters on the persistence of divisions along racial, ethnic, even gender lines. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’

Exploring cruelty is what Mr. Crouch is after in his latest riff on a Shakespearean character, the manservant Malvolio from “Twelfth Night.” Tim Crouch on ‘I, Malvolio,’ His One-Man Show at the Duke 2013-01-12T01:36:17Z

Williams riffed punch lines effortlessly, but Belzer kept up and matched him, line by line. Richard Belzer Had a Ball With the Relationship Between Comic and Crowd 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

The gripping piano part begins like a drone with a descending bass riff. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z

“When Will I Change” tweaks the riff from Blondie’s “Dreaming”; “Fine Without You” is a dead Letters to Cleo ringer; “Heaven Sent” sounds, gloriously, like half the radio did in 1995. Review: Best Coast Go Full Power Pop on ‘California Nights’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

They rounded off a typically energetic performance with Mountains and played the opening riff of a Slayer track. Bands rock Sonisphere festival 2011-07-11T06:24:24Z

Because AC/DC's music is so uncluttered — often with just a guitar riff, bass line and thumping drum beat — it offers an uncertain player nowhere to hide. Brian Johnson, AC/DC all set to shake the Coachella kids up 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The way he fixed on the relentless, dropping two-note riff that runs through the Ballade in A flat lent a slightly eerie undertow to the seemingly gracious piece. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Playing Haydn, Bartok, Debussy and Chopin 2012-02-16T23:01:45Z

Critics weren’t sent advance episodes to review, and Showtime’s ad campaign is limited to familiar but fleeting glimpses with a few riffs of Angelo Badalamenti’s hauntingly memorable musical score. Perspective | ‘Twin Peaks’ made us weird. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s my own riff on beef and barley soup,” she said. Ancient Grains Are New Again 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The problem is, the point of a campaign ad isn’t to riff on pop culture from decades past or work clever puns, but to win votes. Jeb’s absurd #Bootgate grab: This cutesy dancing Marco Rubio ad reveals a campaign desperately out of touch 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Burton and Grahame-Smith essentially build a series of affectionate riffs on the characters and situations of the original series, and personally I can only wish there were a lot more of it. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yellow Blue Tibia riffs on the heavily politicised history of Soviet science fiction to create the ultimate in paranoid conspiracy theories. Adam Roberts: last of the SF writers 2013-02-15T11:09:00Z

The opening vibes riff is etched sharply against a dramatically yawning bass synthesizer in a recording released last year by the Belgian label Sub Rosa, featuring ensemble 0 and Aum Grand Ensemble. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

But sumac-spiced duck on a drift of sour cream, served with salsa verde, and a soupy riff on paella, starring rugged chorizo and sweet lobster, reveal a chef that excels with fowl and meat, too. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Songs roll with riffed momentum, pound with fury only to pull back into washes of noise. Randall Roberts' best pop albums of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

It was an exercise in both “Name That Tune”—because usually, the riffs were famous riffs—and name that style. The Vanished Music Stores of New York City’s Forty-Eighth Street 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a pretty funny riff about Uber, which is a brainstorm the dumbest character comes up with. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Sylvester sounds very much at home, yelling gruffly through I Got a Knife and Tight Jeans, Loose Leash, while his new comrades' arsenal of infectious riffs and lobotomised hooks is enthrallingly well-stocked. Turbonegro: Sexual Harassment – review 2012-08-02T20:00:01Z

Even more high-profile roles saw her continue to riff on her own personality. Awkwafina: 'Growing up, I latched on to strong Asian-American idols' 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The song proves Petty was already crafting chunky guitar riffs into suburban love ballads at his career start. Tom Petty brings mojo to Safeco Field 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The band riffs on Sufjan Stevens’ “Michigan” instrumental, tears it apart, and then pieces it back together for a heart-breaking string coda. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z

In Ms. Muskal’s variations, that étude soon becomes fractured and frenzied, setting off a long, expansive, sometimes fitful exploration, with pummeling rhythms, spiky chords and onrushing riffs. Music Review: Benjamin Hochman’s Deep Dive Into Contemporary Work 2014-03-11T20:53:37Z

They copied each other’s moves and riffed on references and in-jokes that were starting to slosh around TikTok’s expanding global network. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her physical charisma was undeniable, and her guitar riffs proved to be the cement slabs upon which all great Sleater-Kinney songs are built. Sleater-Kinney still sounds fierce, but something seemed off at 9:30 Club 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

He also riffs with a survivor’s humor — severe irony mixed with the wonder of being alive. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous

Sometimes McCarthy likes to take a couple of characters, wind them up and just let them riff on what it all means. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

A trumpet player added a solo to fill in for the song's missing electric guitar riff. Jon Bon Jovi joins wedding band for 'Livin' on a Prayer' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

They open most episodes riffing on their own relationship and then cut to segments of couples doing stand-up, mostly taped live the first Saturday of every month at the Virgil, a club in Los Angeles. Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The book practically tears off its own binding in its desperation to contain every aside, joke, riff and detour. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

When Marr does delve into himself – romantically remembering childhood liberation on New Town Velocity – he turns in his loveliest riff in years and a song up there with anything in his canon. Johnny Marr: The Messenger – review 2013-02-21T22:35:01Z

His Southern cassata — a riff on a Sicilian marzipan confection — ingeniously substitutes pecans for almonds and cream cheese for ricotta. Cookbook Review: Dorie Greenpan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi’, Nick Malgieri’s ‘Pastry’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Expect a show that riffs on the history of art and film, be it Marcel Duchamp or Buster Keaton. Datebook: Abstraction and architecture, African American photographers 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

A jagged guitar riff accompanies lyrics about yet another dysfunctional family gathering from the esteemed singer-songwriter: “All I wanted was one perfect Christmas / all I got was some coal and some switches,” Phair sings. 5 Depressing Christmas Songs from 2014 That Will Totally Bum You Out 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Read this royal riff on the subject, courtesy of Sam Sifton -- who also provides a recipe. Chicken adobo a-go-go: it's a rap, and a recipe, Seattle-style 2011-06-27T17:06:14Z

"I think it's great," he starts, before persuading himself, over the course of a 10-minute riff, that it's anything but. Ross Noble: wake up call 2012-11-12T18:30:02Z

“The show’s anecdotal structure — its tendency to construct scenes as self-contained, jazzlike riffs — might not be for everyone, but those scenes are frequently gems in their own right.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Lodge 49’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The song, which features a distinctive organ riff, stayed at number one for six weeks in the UK in the summer of 1967. Madonna is 'most played' artist 2010-04-05T11:44:00Z

The result is a captivatingly sly, 70×70-inch oil-on-canvas work that depicts series stars including Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross in character and part of a riff on the “sipping tea” meme. Johnsons are ‘sipping tea’ for ‘black-ish’ family portrait 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Known for their quiet-loud-louder dynamic with instrumental guitars and defined bass riffs making layers of moody melodies, they enjoy a cult-like status among fans. Mogwai still pushing boundaries 2014-01-20T10:48:27Z

Time and again, Berry stops Richards and makes him play the famous opening riff his way. Remembering Chuck Berry, Who Died at Ninety 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

But instead of reviving Pops Staples’ barbed-wire guitar riff, the arrangement lathered on the keyboards and horns. Mavis Staples rescues her own tribute concert 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Trump was clearly reading from a teleprompter—there was none of his usual riffing or score-settling. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Models, crunched and draped into intensely angular outfits and wearing dresses of painted fabric and broken, gilded frames, sported splattery riffs on 17th-century Dutch Golden Age paintings. Viktor & Rolf’s Couture Dresses Turn into Paintings That Can Hang on the Wall 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

But the climaxes, satisfying and riotous as they may be, are not the final destination; even after the climactic-seeming tutti riffs in “The Shedding of Landscapes” comes a restive percussive section. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

But its songs still look back to Sahara home turf, from their modal riffs and North African rhythms to their lyrics. The Playlist: Missy Elliott Reappears With a Boast, and Wire Returns With a Blast 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

With Japanese titanium frames and round lenses, the design riffs on timeless style of Carnegie’s signature specs. Warby Parker Partners with the Smithsonian Design Museum on Class and New Frames 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The story seems to play less like a cartoonish action movie and more like a giddy riff on “Big,” as Billy grows up in a huge way and revels in his newfound powers. The Best and Worst Movie Trailers From Comic-Con 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Their sound – anthemic choruses and stadium-sized riffs – might have mined the guilty pleasures trove, but their love of their influences was refreshingly genuine. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z

The band’s steady repetition of riffs, in patterns of four, five, six or 10 beats, started to gather its own energy. Review: Ufomammut Slowly Glides From Riff to Riff, at Saint Vitus 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

It started as a riff on noodle kugel – a delectable mashup of buttered egg noodles and cheesecake, baked in a casserole with cinnamon and raisins until golden brown. Oops, I created a frankenfood monster: how we made Nutellasagna 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Then he and his band approach the front of the stage to unleash a four-pronged attack, launching volleys of relentless riffs at an enraptured crowd. Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T17:44:00Z

In fact, Bastille’s ambitions may be even bigger, as found bits of movie dialogue get intercut with heavy guitar riffs and arty, electronic-music flourishes. Pop & Rock Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In outline, the movie offers a savvy, updated riff on the Greek myth of Pygmalion, which has inspired myriad stories about men and the women they invent. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

The comics at Comedy in the Dark are not, however, required to riff on the subject of their carbon footprint. The green roots of carbon-neutral comedy 2010-08-08T21:31:00Z

After the downbeat Lost and Found, an incantation of drowning and rebirth over a poignant piano riff, Mason references a Frankie Boyle gag about Margaret Thatcher. Steve Mason – review 2013-04-12T16:42:19Z

Established artists mixed easily with celebrities like Claire Danes, Bergdorf Blondes and art patronesses, about 30 of whom wore striking column dresses by Akris, each one a riff on a similar gown. Scene City: The Whitney Gears Up for Downtown 2010-10-27T21:07:00Z

And maybe a lot of theft goes into stealing riffs, but that doesn’t mean you should steal the music.” ArtsBeat: Look Busy for the Boss: Bruce Springsteen Visits 'Little Steven's Underground Garage' 2011-03-29T18:30:55Z

As many critics pointed out, is essentially a traditional family drama, but one featuring dazzling postmodern riffs on everything from the stock market and the culture of pharmaceutical fixes to student debauchery and high-end cuisine. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

He has been praised and dissed for riffing wild on venerable works, like Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” and Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” with what usually registers more as hellbent madness than discernible method. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adams was influenced by Minimalism, and individual players in “songbirdsongs” often have a small riff, or cell — a birdcall, a rustle of leaves — that they repeat throughout a movement. Music Review: John Luther Adams ?songbirdsongs? by Le Train Bleu - Review 2011-11-27T22:40:08Z

One early riff: “I would always get asked, ‘Are you mixed with something?’ because I’m light-skinned. Why Larry Wilmore is the perfect comic fit for this year’s correspondents’ dinner 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

In another series, Pescador layers commercial imagery, abstract scribbling and found objects, re-photographing the results to create images that are whimsical, often decorative riffs on our cacophonous consumer landscape. Paul Pescador's layered images riff on consumer overload 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

And Another Thing Pavilion, Until Sunday Essentially, this is a comedy riff on the old dysfunctional double-act setup, set in a studio where everything is fake, including the presenters' personas. And Another Thing ? review 2011-07-12T18:00:01Z

I riffed on Bon Appetit’s version, which uses both melted chocolate and cocoa powder, though I knew City Bakery’s famously contained no cocoa. The secret code of America's most iconic hot chocolate recipe, somewhat cracked 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

He paused, turning over the topic in his head like the kernel of a stand-up riff. Chris Rock is just being his biting, brazen self in 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

With all these innovative desserts, traditional favorites and playful riffs on classics, it shouldn’t be hard to find one to suit your purpose. Make holidays happier with bakery sweets (yes, it’s OK) 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Then a frazzled, convulsing wannabe-guitar synthesizer riff enters and it's all over. Music Monday: Joker, Guilty Simpson, Lil B feat. Elliott Smith 2010-04-12T19:43:00Z

Among the works created by Banksy is a carousel that riffs on Britain's horsemeat scandal. Banksy's 'Dismaland' theme park installation a singular blend of dystopia and hype 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

But overall this is a lively, provocative riff off post-9/11 paranoia, by way of Denmark. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z

He came up with the riff during a rehearsal, and I played against it. How we made: Bob Young and Francis Rossi on Caroline 2013-04-02T06:00:06Z

Watching the film, I literally ran off the page writing down all of the obvious riffs on other movies. Critic's Notebook: In Tron Franchise, Cyberpresent Looks a Lot Like the Past 2011-01-14T17:29:26Z

The event is a White House riff on the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals, where President Obama appeared this year in a keynote conversation. South by South Lawn: LACMA's Michael Govan to talk with Turrell and Adjaye for White House festival 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

While “Brideshead Revisited” is certainly no Waugh adaptation, Myjer and Haring have taken a literary classic and riffed on it freely, in a warm, vulnerable way. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Get It Right is based around one of the giddiest keyboard riffs you'll ever hear. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z

The album opens with its title track, a would-be anthem involving a simple guitar riff, an analog synthesizer line and a series of generalizations. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z

But what makes this “Ubu Roi” more than a clever riff on a period piece is its sense of the raw, ravening anger in the boy’s satirical vision. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

There is a familiarity to working with Keanu, and the physicality of that and the instinctive way we riff on the dialogue and that stuff kicked in on its own. Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The most powerful riff is reserved for the title track, a pounding, angry attack on the chaos in Mali and elsewhere in Africa, mixed with a love song to the continent. Rokia Traoré: Beautiful Africa – review 2013-04-04T21:00:03Z

There was a Jazz Age charm to DSquared2 — not least because the models were all dark-skinned, as if this show really were a riff on some downtown bar scene back in the 1940s. Happy Hybrids: High Tech Meets Heritage 2013-01-16T18:46:42Z

But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot. Review: Con Men in Tap Shoes Lay Down ‘The Sting’ 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fain was the soloist, and he blazed through some of Mr. Glass’s flashiest riffs with impressive authority. Review: Philip Glass, Easy to Mimic but Hard to Match 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Barely veiled by the somber setting, a marriage of Neolithic skeletons and contemporary fabrics by way of riffs on medieval armor, is a dully rote telling of this ambiguous story. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

The songs are tightly wound, packing more riffs than you’d expect into their three minutes each, and the attitude is scrappy and resilient. Playlist: New CDs From the Morning Benders and David Byrne 2010-04-10T04:22:00Z

The song, played by a full band with horns and electric guitar, was a riff on Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

A long and skinny contemporary tree house in Portugal made of wood and slate riffs on the primitive hut. Check out ten stylish architectural cabins 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Some provided riffs on Johnny Carson's classic "There's only one fruitcake in the world" bit, while one blogger described it as tasting of air freshener. If you've never had fresh panettone — you've never really had panettone 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

There are a multitude of ingredients to personalize your noodle bowl: Perhaps you're riffing to accommodate available ingredients. How to build a better noodle soup, one bowl at a time 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Gentle wisps of melody shared by the two men slowly unfolded over a drone before morphing into a flurry of imaginatively ornamented, virtuosic riffs. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The riffs he dictated to his editor were terse and funny, with judgment slyly imparted through insinuation and association. In ‘The Earth Dies Streaming,’ Film Criticism That Transcends Raves and Pans 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

And a number of contemporary figures, from the video artist and composer Christian Marclay to the filmmaker Rosa Barba, will present new works that riff on these swaying, jangling sculptures. When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

On “Clear Hearts, Full Eyes,” his first solo record without the beery, exultant riffs of the Hold Steady, Mr. Finn’s interest in a relationship with a higher power becomes more overt. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady on ?Clear Hearts, Full Eyes? 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

The rock group Steely Dan borrowed a riff from “Song for My Father” for their 1974 hit “Rikki, Don’t Lose That Number,” a song that remains in heavy rotation on classic rock and oldies stations. Horace Silver, pioneering jazz pianist, dies at 85 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, he would play a riff for hours, until he had it just right. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

The 1975 hit “Kashmir” takes us to “distant and unsettling lands,” he writes, “with one having to closely follow the path of Jimmy Page’s ever-circling, talismanic riff to stay safe from surrounding danger.” Every note of Jimmy Page — before, during and after Led Zeppelin 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Matt Ev on Facebook said: "The sludgy breakdown riff in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is one of the greatest things ever to happen in music." Black Sabbath: a beginner's guide 2013-06-21T12:10:10Z

And Rob – yes, both are named Rob – filters relationship, emotion, and meaning through lyrics, hooks, and peerless guitar riffs. Romancing the music: "High Fidelity" and "Cherish the Day" find affection in their art 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her breakthrough play, “The Shipment,” was an inspired riff on black identity, not perhaps a natural subject for a Korean-American writer. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

Hopkins’s character is a routine riff on the aloof tycoon. ‘Zero Contact’ Review: A Token of the Times 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

A classic features boiled potatoes, a zippy green chutney and spices; this riff proves that grilled cheese sandwiches are not just for cozying up to warm tomato soup. How to summer-ize grilled cheese: Go Indian 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Saint Motel, from Los Angeles, reanimated power pop with lean guitar riffs, the long-breathed melodies that A/J Jackson sang in his smiley tenor, and a willingness to veer in noisy directions. Music Review: The Circus Tumbles In, to the Sound of the ?70s 2011-01-05T23:16:37Z

"Listen up, youngsters," he said after demonstrating how another Animals song inspired his "Badlands" riff, "this is how successful theft is accomplished." Springsteen delivers SXSW keynote 2012-03-15T20:59:00Z

Sondheim gave transcendent musical voice to monomaniacal rage, with a shivery riff on the Dies Irae of the Catholic mass. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“We used to start our gigs with the opening riffs from ‘How High the Moon,’ ” said another Paul, the one with the Beatles. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

And as the players and their tastes mature, many great games may come to feel less like escapist fantasies and more like creative riffs on reality. Rockstar, Blizzard and Quantic Dream Lead the Pack 2010-08-06T16:00:00Z

That night in April, Trump was riffing for his audience, and Ruddy was at the next table, facing the lobster station. Chris Ruddy and Newsmax went all-in on Trump. Now they might pay a price for it. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

These little riffs, addressed in close-up, directly to the camera, hearken back to “The Late Late Show” and suggest what might have been. Craig Ferguson’s History Show, “Join or Die” 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The “Upstairs Downstairs” riffs are matched by the familiar tropes of reality shows, including all those moments where the characters privately talk trash directly to the camera. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Equal parts country twang and hip-hop bass, “Old Town Road” lent itself well to cowboy memes and line-dance riffs. From TikTok smash to Billboard record-breaker: How ‘Old Town Road’ gamed the system and won the summer 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

“Brave Red, Smart Frog” is subtitled “A New Book of Old Tales,” and the stories in it include riffs on “Snow White” and “Red Riding Hood.” Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The location, the elevated prices, the daring riffs on traditional Italian cuisine and the recent distinction of a Michelin star all promised innovative dining. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z

The cocktails, meanwhile, taste as if they were mixed in the big city, and dessert features a riff on French diplomat cake layered with tender crepes and moistened with pistachio sauce. Clarity offers dining with vision and flair in Vienna 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

But generations of successive mayors and other civic leaders tinkered, riffed and saw it through. Making Times Square’s Pedestrian Plazas Work 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

There’s the sly riff on critics and their spouses, quoted above. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The cascade of fan-shaped ginkgo leaves in Roberta Matthews Bernstein’s “Shade for Dinosaurs” riffs on that tree’s ­250-million-year-old lineage, not on its frequent use on D.C. streets. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. DeFrancesco is a deeply authoritative musician, a master of rhythmic pocket, and of the custom of stomping bass lines beneath chords and riffs. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z

It seemed fitting that he would pay reparations by riffing on frontier lawlessness and disorder. Revisiting ‘Deadwood,’ a Lawless Prelude to TV’s New Golden Age 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Wonder, wearing a suit and purple shirt, got the sold-out audience cheering with his signature harmonica riffs before the two performed Prince’s hit “1999,” with the crowd clapping and dancing along. Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan Headline Prince Tribute Show 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bartenders continue to riff on these new versions, too. The muddled history of the old-fashioned 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

The riffs keep revolving until you feel as if you’re playing them yourself. | High on Fire: High on Fire, Metal Trio, Blasting the Blender 2010-04-11T22:11:00Z

Guitarist James Williamson hammered out the timeless riffs to “Raw Power” and “Search and Destroy.” Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z

The bloopers mostly featured McKellen riffing on other actors, flubbing his lines and, in one instance, lifting Gandalf’s robe to show off a pair of white briefs. ‘Hobbit’ cast tease trailer, bloopers at Comic-Con 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

How does a luxury retailer find the right mix when an entire industry seems to be riffing on sneakers, track pants and hoodies? Perspective | The end of Barneys, the store that made us lust for fashion 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Laid out in four large unadorned frames, these images, whose title riffs on Eleanor Antin’s “Carving: A Traditional Sculpture,” confront the underlying contradictions in how gender is constructed and understood by mainstream culture. For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Page and Plant didn't hear the song for decades, though Led Zeppelin had incorporated a bass riff from one of Spirit's songs, "Fresh Garbage," in a medley, Anderson said. Origin of 'Stairway to Heaven' questioned at copyright trial 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Marsh riffs on the excesses of American medicine, which continue to amaze him. A Surgeon Not Afraid to Face His Mistakes, In and Out of the Operating Room 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Sally’s boards the bandwagon with “New Bay” chicken thighs that riff on traditional Old Bay seasoning with fenugreek and black mustard seeds in the spice blend. Sally’s Middle Name review: A way with the seasons, if not the service 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

For Mark Fast , fringe was toughened up by being melded with athletic body wraps and straps, a new riff on the designer’s 21st-century attitude toward knits. Special Report: Putting the Fringe on Top 2010-09-21T10:50:00Z

In the middle of an accelerated jazz version of “It’s All Right With Me” Ms. McKay interpolated a flighty semioperatic riff. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

“It causes riffs, it’s broken friendships,” she joked. Golden Globes: Game Night for Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Featuring a soaring female vocal, a gargantuan synth riff and big bass drops in all the right places, it's a sophisticated, hands-aloft banger that should slot nicely alongside the output of his contemporaries. New music: Burns – Limitless 2013-04-15T10:30:50Z

Then the other dancers — their names drawn from a basket to determine their order — riff on it. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z

And riffing on an English translation of his last name and his reputation for diplomacy, curators in the international art world called him Larry the Good. Picasso Museum to Reopen at Last, With New Leader 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

A riff on a game of whodunit, the show features four performers. Weekend Miser: ?The Liar Show? and ?The Rejection Show? 2012-02-02T23:34:50Z

Minoliti riffs off artists she admires and invites others into the party. Your invitation to dreamland awaits at Ad Minoliti's exhibition at Cherry and Martin gallery 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

There's a brilliant moment around the two-minute mark when the beat falls away to leave a scratchy guitar riff that arrives from nowhere and stays for the rest of the song. New music: Pacific! - Narcissus 2010-08-05T14:40:00Z

The, ah, righteous thugs and heroic hos that we celebrate achieved the whole deal; all we can do is riff charming, insignificant stuff that people will never recall. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The patterns riff on the ironwork of a former African-American slave from Charleston, South Carolina. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Others say a well-judged sample can re-contextualise and energise an existing song, in the same way jazz musicians appropriate and riff on each others' work. Crate digging and the resurgence of vinyl 2013-01-22T08:07:57Z

“Lonely Boy,” the band’s latest hit, was knocked out at punk-rock velocity, its T. Rex riff punching through the roof. Concert review: Black Keys at the United Center 2012-03-20T14:36:00Z

“It allows his voice to soar, and he improvises these incredible riffs around transience and loss, all sorts of things.” ‘The Hollow Crown,’ on PBS, Retells Shakespearean History 2013-09-12T16:18:13Z

It was a set full of stomping drumbeats and distorted guitar riffs carrying mostly declarations of woman trouble and other mental distress. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z

There’s an easy but irresistible simplicity to the leadoff track from “Tattoo You,” a bare-bones Stones classic: two verse chords, that chunky little riff, steady but shuffling percussion. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Rubens reveals his obsession with Leonardo da Vinci's lost Battle of Anghiari as he replicates and riffs off its explosion of staring eyes and whirling weapons in his depiction of a sea monster.• Titian doesn't actually need sexing up – the week in art 2012-07-06T11:17:18Z

Her current exhibition, at London's Hayward Project Space, riffs on the relationship between matter, space and the friction between the two. Artist of the week 94: Sem? Bekirovic 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z

For “Pictures,” Wyard is taking more artistic license, imaginatively riffing on the short, discrete movements in Mussorgsky’s work. Family-friendly ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ to feature visual treats 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine he thought asking the former White House Press Secretary to riff off of his eight-month-old lie about the crowds at the inauguration was funny. Review: Colbert Aside, Inclusive Winners Made for a Refreshing, Sharp Emmys 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

There’s a bouncing-octave piano riff, a solidly thumping beat and eventually the sounds of a swooping, hovering string section, as Ware promises that freedom will feel good: “Keep on moving up that mountaintop,” she urges. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Reacting to thunderous laughter and a few groans, Rock follows his riff with a mischievous chuckle and tiptoes the stage as if to avoid an imaginary physical attack. "This was real and raw": Fans weigh in on Chris Rock's special, from trans jokes to Slap clapback 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

You know, the song had to end at a certain time, and the bass is playing the very same riff all the time. “I Can’t Stop Laughing”: Rita Moreno Remembers Singing with Animal 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

This group’s frayed, four-chord guitar riffs and hoarse yelling nod reverently to the Strokes, the French Kicks and the Walkmen. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:01:49Z

Yet the cheers from the audience were just as enthusiastic after the most mellow bagatelle, music run through with an almost obsessively repetitive lapping bass riff in the piano and jazzy ruminations on the violin. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

This is a simple riff on an old French “comfort food” recipe for endive à la crème, a homey gratin with cream and bits of ham. In Winter, Take the Bitter With the Sweet 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Loud, dumb and occasionally effective, the band closed the first night of Coachella 2015 with gnarly riffs, a rumbling bottom end and Angus Young solos galore. Coachella fest outdoes itself as a rollicking Sim City 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Women in headscarves, sitting on the sidelines, sway demurely to the melodic guitar riffs. Afghan indie band rocks Kabul in post-Taliban era 2010-07-06T06:56:00Z

Pete Davidson gave a stellar riff on Staten Island that will probably get him thrown out of that borough for good. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Takes Aim at Al Franken, an ‘S.N.L.’ Alumnus 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

His riff on his family's predilection for nicknames is a hoot. 'Boy Kings of Texas': a tough, tender tale of growing up in the barrio 2012-08-15T18:54:04Z

The instantaneously ubiquitous logo, a riff by the Human Rights Campaign on its own original design, was posted in response to the two landmark Marriage Equality cases before the U.S. Fighting for equality, one meme at a time 2013-03-29T15:50:00Z

It's enmeshed enough in the fabric of American dining that it's the subject of multiple "Seinfeld" riffs. How ketchup, an invention of imperial China, eventually became a polarizing American staple 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Johanna Mueller’s “Jackalope,” a relief engraving that riffs on the fictitious hybrid proffered on postcards in the American West, embeds a small antelope inside a comparatively mammoth rabbit. Review | In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

There's an electro spin on some of the tracks, showing the boys are capable of concocting more than guitar riffs, and they've gained more swagger since the release of their debut. Review: No slump for Two Door Cinema Club 2012-09-04T17:46:03Z

It was a riff on traditional African styles of dress, the artistry of the Harlem renaissance, the religiosity of church ladies and the politics of hip-hop. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

Both the near-frenzied first movement and the more pensive second movement of this 15-minute work unfold in a series of episodic gestures, full of spiraling piano flights and cyclic violin riffs. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

“Madman’s Eyes” is set to an ominous, Middle Eastern-tinged modal riff and buttressed by a moaning, swooping string orchestra, as Matthews howls, “Don’t sacrifice another child!” Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, her sister Nancy Wilson hammered that unmistakable galloping riff, with two other ace guitarists chugging along in unison like three well-oiled pistons powering Heart’s motoring classic, “Barracuda.” Review: Heart’s comeback roar echoes through Tacoma Dome during all-star Love Alive tour stop 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

And paintings that riff on the strange things that women do to their bodies in the name of beauty. Datebook: A Saudi artist mulls terrorism, vivid abstractions and paintings that pick apart beauty standards 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Although Berry played this and following songs - "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "School Days" -- at slower tempos than the original recordings, he filled them with his classic guitar riffs and sang them with weathered authority. Chuck Berry falls ill during Chicago show; but refuses hospital 2011-01-02T13:00:00Z

The riffs arrived, adamant and incantatory, while subtleties loomed amid the blare, like a particular salvo of tom-toms or shifts in the tone of the guitars. Music Review: Reunited, Loop Performs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-04-18T21:54:41Z

His early attempts were high concept riffs on the idea that he was a wimp trying to act tough. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z

What’s mysterious to me now is why everyone went wild for that Tarantino riff. I've never seen … Top Gun 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

In his recent play “Middletown,” now in its Seattle premiere at ACT Theatre, Will Eno cleverly and sincerely pays homage to Wilder’s classic, borrowing and riffing on some of its signature features. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

The show will include her signature foul-mouthed riffs on popular culture, celebrity wrongdoings and all things gay. ArtsBeat: Kathy Griffin Coming to Broadway 2011-02-10T14:46:28Z

This time, Primus riffs on Willy Wonka to tease its new album, “Primus & the Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble” — some copies of which include golden tickets redeemable for free concerts for life. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

He brings the hammer down in the murderous “Pay in Blood” over a guitar riff that Keith Richards might want to cop, and then re-appropriates Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” for the savage “Early Roman Kings.” Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z

Her work outside the Team took off after a 2010 production of “Three Pianos,” a boozy song cycle riffing on the work of Franz Schubert. Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Whole episodes unfolded with percolating rhythms and riffs. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s distinguished by Jones’s sense of humor, his way with self-deprecating anecdotes and a candor that’s as bracing as the opening riff of the Pistols’s “God Save the Queen.” ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Priestess match their heroes riff for epic riff, and have the official endorsement of follically challenged rock god Rob Halford himself. Lez Zeppelin, Vag Halen and AC/DShe – meet the all-female tribute bands 2013-05-31T05:00:01Z

Burton: Just the tempo was so cool and everything and that little guitar riff thing behind the song. The summer of 1969: When Elvis made his true comeback 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Beatles fans were rewarded by small musical touches, such as the descending guitar riff of “Admiral of Upside Down,” that evoked the band’s later music, especially “Abbey Road.” Review | Dhani Harrison stakes out his own sound 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, we get what mostly feels like fragments, riffs and mood treatments from masterful musicians who no doubt were as confused as to the aesthetic world here as everyone else. 'Spider-Man' stuck in a tangled web 2011-02-07T23:36:14Z

This is string-band music in the digital era, with riffs like loops and allusions to fiddle tunes, dance music and deep gospel. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Other acts to watch include hot young rock band Radkey, who move with the riffed fluidity of Queens of the Stone Age, and the mesmerizing New Orleans-based guitarist Benjamin Booker. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Those kinds of riffs have also sparked controversy among deli purists, who question how real “traditional” food can taste in a restaurant that has been open less time than it takes salmon to spawn. The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak

Keith Richards and Ron Wood, the Stones’ guitarists, played nonstop games of syncopation and suspense amid the band’s well-known riffs, while Mr. Jagger raced all over the stage without missing a note. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

In person, they riff like a pair of show business partners. For those with autism, documentary offers new hope 2011-03-27T18:01:04Z

At the opening of the slow first movement of Mahler’s Ninth, halting motifs and hesitant riffs coalesce into a multitextured, gentle accompaniment for a yearning theme in the strings. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z

But what begins as a riff on “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” morphs into a modern-day “Doll’s House.” Theater Review: ‘Playing With Grown Ups’ by Hannah Patterson at 59E59 2014-05-07T19:39:05Z

When she later heard Vaughan, the Texan cult guitarist who died in a 1990 helicopter crash and was known for his frenetic electric riffs and runs, she was smitten. Guitar Heroine: Joanne Shaw Taylor a rare axe-woman 2012-10-18T14:38:12Z

When Durbin had her first screen kiss – with Robert Stack in First Love, a riff on the Cinderella plot – it filled columns in the American newspapers for weeks. Deanna Durbin obituary 2013-05-01T11:26:11Z

The guitar riff running through “Devil’s Haircut” was actually replayed in the studio, not sampled. You May Not Know These 15 Songs. But You’ve Heard Them. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The Phillips Collection has chosen two different words — riffs and relations — for the title of a new exhibition that traces the influence of modernism on African American artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Close: it means "boys", and they decided to adopt it because "it sounded really ugly and vicious, and a good way to describe these riffs we'd been kicking about." New band of the day - Drenge (No 1,438) 2013-01-24T13:53:00Z

Instead Mr. Schama focuses on an earlier phase just before World War I when the artist visited Morocco, presumably because doing so allows our guide to offer another riff on colonialism. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

He’s beginning to generate his own meta-content — other users riff on his “nice,” and in one post, he talks about people alerting him to copycats who lack his “natural flow.” The Most Soothing Man on TikTok 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Some of the riffs, I think, “Hmm, maybe we supped at the same table.” Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

But like Earth, it’s a stealth band, working on the rack of riff and repetition, moving slowly toward loud, intense, orange-sky beauty. New Music From Earth, Yob and Jeezy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Viewed one frame at a time—measure by measure, riff by riff, lyric by lyric—it’s difficult to point to anything that marks Whitney as a band making music in, or for, 2019. The Chicago Band Whitney and the Fear of Being “Too Indie” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

All the glitter serves as the shiny platter on which this Austin, Tex., theater collective is serving up its flashy and funny but fuzzy-minded riff on the new gilded age. Theater Review: ‘Stop Hitting Yourself,’ a Riff on Excess, at Lincoln Center 2014-01-28T03:00:01Z

This fall’s Matrix exhibition will be Mark Dion’s “The Wadsworth Atheneum’s Great Chain of Being,” a series of photographic details that riff on the museum’s collections. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

The unmistakeable guitar riff of “Rebel Rebel” was up next, and the Wembley crowd began singing the melody back as soon as the band had gone through one refrain. Bowie’s Live Aid magic: An unforgettable show, from the spine-tingling “Heroes” to his audacious “Dancing in the Street” duet 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Senna’s sinister and charming novel, about a married couple who are both biracial, riffs on themes she’s made her own — about what happens when races and cultures mingle in the home, and under the skin. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

For up to three hours at a clip, he practices guitar riffs — pedagogically breaking down his technique for student-fans who inquire in the chat — jams with his band and plays first-person shooter games. Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The syncopation of the guitar riff, he said, reminded him of “ancient Japanese R&B” — which he acknowledged “isn’t a thing” — so the video concept followed suit. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

His is a distinctive voice, spiked by cluster-like harmonies, at once piercing and ethereal, and squiggly rhythmic riffs. Review: The Rare Problem of a New Opera That’s Too Short 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Some of his provocations, like a paranoid riff on vaccinations, seem less than fully formed; and the show loses its comic zest in some of his fogeyish umbrage over sensitivity to transgender people. In Netflix Specials, Dave Chappelle Challenges His Audience 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The publishing company that holds the copyright on the song sued in 2009, arguing that the Men at Work riff copied much of the melody. ArtsBeat Blog: Kookaburra Sitting Pretty in That Old Gum Tree as Court Upholds Copyright Ruling 2011-10-07T16:30:22Z

The riffs don’t stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel. Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

He discovered his talent for reactive riffs and pungent axioms. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

“They’re adorable in a goofy way,” said Mr. Hodgson, who continues to riff on bad films in the troupe Cinematic Titanic. James Nguyen?s ?Birdemic?: A Turkey Flies High as a Cult Hit 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z

And there’s a hilarious riff on their teenage crush on Ali MacGraw, who, Paul says, confessed to being a sex addict in her memoir. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The sound that I very clearly remember the Beatles playing in the Cavern was a Chuck Berry riff. The birth of Beatlemania 2011-02-09T08:26:02Z

What delight there is in "The Lovebirds" exists in watching the two of them riff off one another in a procession of scenes where the danger evolves from severe to outright bizarre. "Lovebirds" is a romance-deficient career misstep for the enjoyable Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

But founding guitarists Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell remain, and their anvil riffs and thick textures anchor the attack. Trouble returns to swing metal 2013-08-06T05:00:00Z

To secure status within the band of convicts portrayed in this long and congested drama, a man must be able to chant, riff and soar in the form that gives the play its title. Review: ‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Two silhouetted bodies trade syncopated riffs in a lively tap showdown. Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Fan fiction takes characters from an established book series, TV show, movie franchise or other cultural cornerstone and riffs on them. ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Reimagined by Its Fans 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hudson agreed, with the understanding that he would riff on, rather than slavishly copy, Bakst’s designs. ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Awakes to Vibrant Ballet Costumes 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Gucci quickly said that the piece was a riff on Mr. Day’s, and few of the critics were placated. Thanks, Internet Outrage! Now Dapper Dan and Gucci Are Buds. 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

On this new album, the riffs are clenched especially tight, but they aren’t inflexible. Review | Eyehategod’s high-gravity metal can connect you to the heavens 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kaysen likes to riff on classic French dishes, and does so with panache. In a Minneapolis Suburb, French Cuisine, Tradition and Charm 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The album begins with the concise refrain, “Clear the way!” bellowed over a signature Morello rhythmic electric-guitar riff. Make America rage again, says hybrid band Prophets of Rage 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

All the staples are there: scorching riffs, waves of overlapping notes that dive bomb into deep growls and signature sonic horse wails. Music Review: Van Halen ageless on new album 2012-02-06T19:40:09Z

You can also riff on an Old-Fashioned with a good aged dark rum — reach for orange bitters, or even allspice dram, and if your rum is a sweeter variety, maybe go lighter on the sugar. How to make a Rye Old-Fashioned, a classic 3-ingredient drink (plus ice) 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In “O, Earth,” Casey Llewellyn’s whimsical, politically impassioned riff on Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” phantasms are present, and at least one of them is angry. Review: ‘O Earth,’ a Riff on ‘Our Town’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

One of the better comic riffs was that racketeering is like any other racket: profits dwindle, employees shirk their duties, and younger protégés don’t know their place. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z

Use whatever dried fruit you have on hand to make these glorious fruitcake cookies, a riff on the holiday classic that is as beloved as it is divisive. 13 holiday classics turned into cookies 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Its title is a riff on Flaubert’s masterpiece about the social education of a young bourgeois man. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

He was looking to accompany a unique rhythm track that Campbell had been riffing on. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

He did so not as an empty riff but as a “gloriously compound blasphemy” meant to poke fun at “stuffy record-collector types and fragile Ian Curtis worshipers.” How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

In the glut of shows and podcasts in which celebrities rub shoulders and riff away in friendly banter, it takes work to engage another person, famous or not. Review | ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ has finally run out of gas — but is that Seinfeld’s fault? 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

And she is very funny: witness the above Mrs Beethoven answer, or her riff about shiny children. TV review: QI Jingle Bells Christmas edition 2012-12-22T08:00:03Z

From the get-go, there’s “Heaven on Their Minds,” whose guitar riff has an evocative directness right up there with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Last season, the duo came up with a riff on blankets that had an emotional tug. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z

In large and small ways, Bogdanovich is self-consciously riffing on screwball comedy in general, the Hawks in specific, with O’Neal stepping into the Cary Grant role and Streisand taking over for Katharine Hepburn. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

She introduces three stories, created using the Story Pirates methodology — kids outline, trained improvisers riff and perform. With These Experiences for Kids, All the Living Room’s a Stage 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

And for another thing, they play with such ferocity that the main problem with Amok, namely that the songs attached to the riffs are pretty sketchy – ceases to matter. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-25T15:06:00Z

Things may get hairy at McCaw Hall on Saturday, when Seattle Opera hosts "The Barber of Seattle" competitions — a riff on its upcoming production of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." See who makes the cut at Seattle Opera's free 'Barber of Seattle' event 2011-01-06T20:13:04Z

Their steadfast riffs leave room for genuinely volatile singing, and for an audience that spread well beyond the This Tent, Ms. Howard was ready to belt. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Alabama Shakes Commands the Big Stage 2012-06-08T20:25:39Z

He’s just wrapped The Space Between, where he tackles a washed-up 70s rocker in the key of Robert Plant who’s also trying to reconnect with his daughter – consider it a riff on the same ballad. Kelsey Grammer: 'People are so swift to judge, to react, to punish' 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

ALBANY, Ga. — On a mild December night, deep in the southwest corner of the Peach State, the opening keyboard riff to Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" plays in the parking lot of a civic center. Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

And the film’s structure, which evokes the shiny, breathless vacuity of “all-access” promotional documentaries like “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” does not crowd the riffing and noodling with too much plot or sentiment. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The “Notes and Discographies” section is where Mr. Marcus kibitzes about new records, reissues and bootlegs, and riffs on videos and concerts and cover versions. Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Their music is full of trapdoors: weird harmony, dynamic shifts, staggered riffs, beats flipped over. Music Review: Chris Thile and His Bluegrass Quintet at Caramoor 2010-07-05T21:56:00Z

What young lad hasn't strummed the air guitar to the classic riffs of those poodle-haired rock bands of the 80's? Collins to star in 'poodle-haired" rock musical 2011-06-02T10:05:19Z

The riffs are very melodic and it's very soulful, very subtle. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z

The words were a riff on the play’s opening line, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Finding Music in Shakespeare, Suffragists and Mitch McConnell 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

He's not quite there yet – his slice-of-life lyrics tend to the over-literal, and once he's hit on a stirring riff, as on the single, Lightning Bolt, he seems to feel the job is done. Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg – review 2012-10-11T20:45:01Z

With its larger-than-life digitally enhanced riffs, consider it the rock 'n' roll song as pep talk. 'Big Hero 6': Fall Out Boy offers 'Immortals' -- can the song live on? 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

For a riff on classic beef Stroganoff, add sautéed mushrooms and maybe a tablespoon of Dijon mustard for a little zippy tang, then mix in some sirloin or ground beef and serve over egg noodles. 9 ways to slather everything in leftover gravy 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Several riff on the basic format of painting -- its physical support, planar surface and presence on the wall. Canvas minus the painting: the label-defying art of Frances Trombly 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Adlon launches into the story of how she acquired the painting “Wine Fine” like a punk docent riffing in her own museum. ‘Better Things’ Is Pamela Adlon’s Personal Gallery 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a song with synths that shudder like lasers, and a central looping riff so triumphant and brimming that it sounds like someone telling you that you’re never going to die. The Music of “Hustlers” and the Soaring, Stupid National Mood Circa 2008 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Perth Theater’s “Oh Yes We Are!” included a riff on “The 12 Days of Christmas” with lines like “fiiiiiive toilet rolls.” Silly Season: How British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

I liked the sound of the dish so much, I riffed on it in my own stove-top version. The herb you need to take a second look at 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The riff is not an obviously danceable one. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The music is by Matt Conner, who wrote Signature Theatre’s Edgar Allan Poe musical, “Nevermore,” and the Washington Irving riff “The Hollow,” with a book by longtime Signature performer Stephen Gregory Smith. Monsters take the stage in a new Gothic musical and a delayed play 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

In Brooklyn, his improvisation in C-sharp minor was gently jazzy, with passages of jumpy riffs alternating with delicate filigree. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mumford played the opening guitar riff for "The Cave," and the crowd erupted in cheers as thousands of hands shot in the air. ArtsBeat: Mumford & Sons Begin U.S. Tour in Hoboken 2012-08-02T09:21:07Z

As a musician, Thundercat is always dazzling, unleashing perfect-pitch wails that sound like tears from heaven splashing on an open-collared white leisure suit; his bass riffs are as chunky and rumbling as King Hippo. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the show is most satisfying when Broderick riffs with ideas as well as rhymes. Abandoman 2010-08-16T14:49:00Z

There are hooks and riffs and clever turns of phrase; there are bold declarations, and much quieter ones. An indie rock Johnny and June: Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield team up for vulnerable, truth-telling “Wild Stab” 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

One of the dizzying pleasures of this labyrinthine movie is that it’s a delirious riff on “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s aching 1958 drama about a male detective’s obsession with a mystery woman. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

Indeed, “B-Sides” feels like a reliquary for Smith: The box’s cover is a linoleum floor tile he designed, the book cover a riff on his typewriter art. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

These riffs on classics by Mary Shelley and Anton Chekhov, part of the Performance Space 122's Coil Festival of experimental theater, are both by Brooklyn troupes with their own defiantly scrawled signatures. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z

Introducing a technique that Mr. Lang uses throughout, the phrase “Look, daughter” becomes an almost obsessive, cyclic riff, with the word “look” insistently repeated. Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z

The guitarist, Juliana Almeida, started the riff for the song “Imagine Sisyphus,” and Ms. Mooney jumped into it instantly, yelling about working too hard for too little, feeling depersonalized and defeated. Replica and La Misma, Hard-Core Bands at Acheron 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hodgson instructed students not to riff more than once every three seconds, so that the audience could absorb each joke. Joel Hodgson on ‘Mystery Science Theater’ and Riffs 2012-06-01T18:59:48Z

Before Ms. Cooper’s “How to Medical,” other TikTok users riffed on a Trump ramble about the power of “germs.” Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They’re Hers. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The combined comic riffs of Wayne Sleep and Luke Heydon are at times so surreal, they seem like characters out of Lewis Carroll. Cinderella 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z

A shorter structure, with one or two sleazy riffs left out, would have worked better. Prom 4: Orchestra of the RAM & The Juilliard School – review 2012-07-17T10:22:17Z

Advertisement Advertisement When it comes to themes, however, no one is more attached to his sartorial riffs than Jean Paul Gaultier. New and Old at Armani Privé and Maison Margiela 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Moss’s homiletic riff is rooted in the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus, too, used antithesis to urge listeners to build a new and better world. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

A recurring riff, “Random Things I’ve Noticed in My Life,” includes observations on the honesty of the name Milk Duds and the absurdity of the term meteorologist. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Shields’ way of making this transfer is to seize whatever glint in the stream catches his eye and riff on it. ‘How Literature Saved My Life’: big questions on truth, fiction and the information stream 2013-02-07T21:51:39Z

It was August 1964, and the rabid-dog riffs of You Really Got Me came crackling through my tiny earpiece, blowing my world apart like a dirty bomb. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z

Acting gurus have been mocked for generations, but improv class is fresher territory, though the stand-up comic Todd Barry once finished a digressive bit by jokingly advertising his Upright Citizens Brigade class on riffing. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z

He would riff on it during his raps, sometimes simply shouting it out, to humorous effect. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

And yet those adverts, in which Bacon hams it up and riffs on the Six Degrees joke, are a long way from his early ambitions. Kevin Bacon: ‘I thought I'd be sent to the TV graveyard’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

The second one, set at twice the clip, was “Lester Leaps In,” a riff tune based on “I Got Rhythm” changes, and written by its namesake, Lester Young. Music Review | Houston Person: Cruising or Fired Up, an Unchanging Language 2010-03-05T22:08:00Z

A taut guitar riff, loosely borrowed from “Gimme Shelter,” amps up the tension. Hugs, flags, tears, kids: Inside the heart-tugging world of today’s super-viral campaign ads 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Gavras, who directed the “No Church in the Wild” video, has long riffed on the idea of social upheaval and fierce state repression in his work. Riot porn from Kanye and Jay-Z 2012-05-30T20:33:00Z

Constitutionally unable to bear such uncertainty, Coldplay turned the melancholy synth refrain into a heroic guitar riff and threw a reassuring arm around those lonely shoulders: "Let's talk!" Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z

Robin Denselow Poly Styrene Ghoulish With a shimmering guitar riff reminiscent of the Passions' classic I'm in Love With a German Film Star, this is transcendentally lovely stuff from the former X-Ray Spex singer. F&M playlist 2011-04-07T22:00:02Z

And in Weston Olencki, a trombone player with an exceptional feel for extended technique and torrential riffing, he found a willing partner for a fixed composition, “contraposition.” A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

This latest incarnation features James Williamson, the erstwhile Stooge who had spent 30-odd years behind a desk, then picked up where he left off, grinding out seemingly thuggish riffs rich with musicality. Yoko Ono's Meltdown – review 2013-06-22T23:05:41Z

It riffs on the software giant’s own video about the program that is awaiting FAA approval, which promises deliveries within 30 minutes via the company’s unmanned drones. Seattle filmmaker parodies Amazon's drone program 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Louis C.K., dressed in a suit and a loose tie, begins his latest Netflix special with a joke about abortion and then segues into more familiar territory as he riffs on the year’s unsettling landscape. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Prison Break’ and ‘Louis C.K.: 2017’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

His contribution is a riff on the famous opening scene: overhead, we see a slowly gliding Imperial Star Destroyer, corrugated. The Screening Room: “Fire in Cardboard City” 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

It opens with an insistent, chiming guitar riff, before the rest of the band steps in to underpin Keene’s vocals — delivered in a voice that sounds cool and assured, while still brimming with unshakable longing. Perspective | The bittersweet brilliance of Tommy Keene 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Yet even in seemingly tranquil episodes, below the surface Carl’s music is restless with riffs that stir up internal intensity and thrust. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was “The Trouble with Never,” a typically full-throttle contraption: grinding riffs, bashing drums, deviously catchy chorus. Music Review: Van Halen at Madison Square Garden 2012-02-29T10:18:40Z

A lot of your work riffs on New York City, though you don’t live here. Harry Bliss’s “City Living” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

An engaging combination of wide eyes and quiet wisdom, the young actor, in making his film debut, neither wilts in the face of Murray's comic riffs nor disrupts the flow. Hallelujah, 'St. Vincent' lets Bill Murray run amok 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Now and then, Mr. Rothenberg sent volleys of jazzy riffs skyward, but more often the group produced mildly dissonant chords, rhythmic shudders and breathy whispers. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

He enlivened the mysteriousness of the slow movement by playing undulant riffs in the accompaniment with hazy sound as the music slipped through unexpected harmonic areas. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2013-02-01T22:33:56Z

Instead, sitting sixth in the circle, I listened as each of my predecessors nimbly tossed off six- and seven-note riffs, like refugees from the Ocarina Philharmonic. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The sound drops low for a while, and the score relaxes into a gentle solo piano riff that sounds like Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie No.1." The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z

With the dynamics of P. J. Harvey, “Transformer” blasts a blues-rock riff, then drops to a single plucked note, then goes on to crash and subside again and again. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z

For Mr. Ray, sculptural invention takes the form of an excessive perfectionism, in which new scanning and casting technologies permit thrillingly off-key riffs on ancient forebears. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

They both wound up in Brooklyn a few years later and bonded over a mutual affinity for hip-hop, especially as a means of riffing on serious issues in a not-always serious way. Das Racist: An ongoing experiment in having serious fun 2011-10-13T20:23:00Z

A comic riff on the lives of the expendable and luckless, “Redshirts” plays off a phenomenon that science-fiction fans have long recognized. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z

Chunks of the Cohens’ riffs about coders in group houses in Silicon Valley might come right out of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Occasionally the male soloist would slowly rise from his chair and sing a brief Persian pop riff. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z

Crystal Castles reached back to the punk-tinged synthesizer riffs and out-of-tune vocals of the 1990s rave era, though it also had more current, consonant tracks. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

“Snakes for the Divine” includes some melodic solos and anthem riffs, but they feel pandering, without the same bullish heart as everything else the band has done. | High on Fire: High on Fire, Metal Trio, Blasting the Blender 2010-04-11T22:11:00Z

The film was a wittier riff on Bogart's previous smasheroo, Casablanca, and it was a hell of a way for a girl to sashay into movies. Lauren Bacall obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Petty’s artistic achievement has been greatest when he contrasts his populist riffs with inward lyrics, mostly about alienation. Tom Petty brings mojo to Safeco Field 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

His first feature, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” was a black-and-white riff on 1930s musicals. Venice Film Festival Commits to Diversification 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Reyes met with Mr. Chomsky to float the idea of a puppet play riffing on his criticisms of artificial intelligence research and the social impact of technology. Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

But the most compelling moments belonged to the choir and soloists, whose ecstatic reading of the Mass elevated Marsalis's riffs to the high heavens. Abyssinian Mass – review 2012-07-17T18:30:01Z

Mischief’s ventures have riffed on cheesy “Mousetrap”-style murder mysteries and J.M. Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

In a riff that explains why he’s always rooted for crooks, he lists instances of malfeasance by the cops—planting evidence, using excessive force, targeting minorities. George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Progressive metal that blends furious riffs with moments of calm, harsh vocals with melodic ones, alternating explosions with restraints. February's best music from across the MAP 2011-02-15T11:40:25Z

The haunted piano-wire of Before I Move Off is nicely offset by a strolling guitar riff and playful vocals. Guardian First Album award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:15:01Z

And don't forget: Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, with long runs and long riffs; Bellevue Strawberry Festival, in the Crossroads neighborhood; and the Shoreline Arts Festival. Plan your whole season with our A-list of summer fun 2010-05-13T16:02:00Z

Ronson creates a dark atmosphere for "Alligator" around simple keyboard and guitar riffs. Paul McCartney tries to make everything new again 2013-10-15T05:00:00Z

That said, thanks to the inclusion of a van, it's likely that this must be a witty riff on the "person falling from an unusually great height onto a van" scene from last year's Devil. Flick Teaser: Craving Craven? Scream 4 more 2011-01-19T13:00:10Z

Despite his immense talent — his whiskeyed voice was bluesy and lullaby tender, yet able to hold on to the hardest rock riffs — Smith never achieved the success of some of his peers. Soulful Seattle singer Shawn Smith dead at 53 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to riff off of that and have something for people to do between Christmas and New Year’s.” Spare Times for Children for Dec. 28-Jan. 3 2012-12-27T23:31:39Z

Music would be created later by the assembled team, sometimes in the form of songs, sometimes as incidental instrumentals or brief, arranged riffs. The play that started without a single written word: '946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The exuberant “Circo Loco” riffs on Daft Punk’s “One More Time” in a concession to pop glimmer. ‘Her Loss’ Is Playtime for Drake and 21 Savage 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

They're feral as a Bikini Kill riff and set loose on the world. Now and then: How "Yellowjackets" purposefully reminds Gen Xers of who we thought we'd be 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Drums kick, guitar riffs churn and Iggy taunts and sneers at the world, terse and unbridled. New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z

Go-go was heavy on percussion with drummers as lead players, accented by guitar riffs, keyboards and horns. Chuck Brown, Pioneer of 'Go-Go' Funk Music, Dies 2012-05-17T00:30:11Z

A little scratchy riff, again ending on an unresolved chord. Old music: REM – Feeling Gravity's Pull 2012-11-15T12:31:00Z

Mainly they build unforgiving walls of riff, and unpleasant ones too. Playlist : New Music From SpaceGhostPurrp, Jana Kramer and 2:54 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z

This is Marclay’s riff on two cracked icons of Philadelphia: the Liberty Bell and Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even,” commonly known as “The Large Glass.” Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

“America, America is killing its youth,” he howled on “Ghost Rider,” over Rev’s distorted, two-note organ riff. Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault. The Excavation Begins With a New Album. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The second round, beginning with a riff on a Hemingway daiquiri and embracing bison tongue and a fantasy in chocolate, proved as mouthwatering as the first. Review | Alma Cocina Latina review: A Venezuelan stunner beckons in Baltimore 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Whole stretches crackle with sputtering rhythms and skittish riffs. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Called “For Freedoms,” a riff on Norman Rockwell’s all-American series “Four Freedoms,” the conceptual art project is a nonpartisan “super PAC” that has raised about $100,000. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

A guitar riff would stutter like a crankshaft, then the beat would kick in, and suddenly everything smelled like motor oil and hormones. Perspective | Chuck Berry helped build rock-and-roll. Then he took it for a ride. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

For all their swagger, the newer tunes retain such traditional elements as circular riffs and call-and-response vocals. Review | Mdou Moctar lets his fingers do the talking during Black Cat show 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

His images riff on the southern Black tradition of “memory jugs” which commemorate the dead by attaching small, meaningful objects to the vessels’ exterior surfaces. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Reign of Terror is expected to be similar, combining heavy metal riffs, pep rally chants, video game beats and dreamy vocals to create a distorted, messy sound that no teenager’s parents will enjoy. Music Monday: 15 Albums to Look Forward to in Early 2012 2012-01-09T15:30:27Z

Ray was messing around on the piano in the front room at home, inspired by this song, and came up with the two-note riff to You Really Got Me, which I played on guitar. How we made You Really Got Me 2013-06-10T17:59:01Z

Both guitarists were often overshadowed, as much by the lights and projected video as by the sequenced riffs and rhythms. Review | Nearing 40 years together, New Order’s sound is still thrilling 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

It's an excellent voice for a professional curmudgeon whose job is to riff on modern life in two-minute televised bursts. In defense of Andy Rooney 2011-09-28T13:29:00Z

The sound arrived in most of “Midnight Rambler” and parts of “Sympathy for the Devil”: dull-toned, loud, heavy, resonant, forceful riffing. Music Review: The Rolling Stones at Barclays Center 2012-12-09T10:03:19Z

It's not songwriting but it is the same to me as playing on the piano for hours or guitar and coming up with riffs that you want to turn into songs. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

Or are you worried she’ll go off book and just start riffing? Wanda Sykes to Watch Over Orphans 2010-08-11T17:16:00Z

And “A Day Off” slowly built its crescendo, with great solos by Mr. Ellman and Mr. Threadgill, until it was rocking: not a riff, not a tune, but a wholeness, a bumping, polytonal processional. Henry Threadgill and Zooid at the Village Vanguard 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The bloodshed was less gross on the small screen, and the best jokes — loose, absurdist, improvised-sounding riffs — landed better in a quiet, half-distracted room than they might have in a crowded theater. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Baldwin, who won best supporting actor in a comedy for his portrayal of Mr. Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” riffed off Mr. Trump’s lack of an Emmy, as noted in Mr. Colbert’s opening monologue. President Trump, Emmy Punching Bag 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

It begins with a piano riff and builds into a triumphant orchestral sweep. Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Replacing its oozing synths with a snaking guitar riff, the track rides nearly like an indie-rock song that eventually glitches out and finds a way home again. Blackpink’s Genre-Clashing Return, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

There were clusters of buttons on shoulders that aped epaulets and that were also used on cuffs as a witty riff on the bands of braid that signify military rank. 2010-01-20T00:05:00Z

Early jazz from New Orleans framed soloists’ interjections with a raucous polyphonic texture; big bands, in the thirties, provided a thickness of intricate arrangement or urgent riffs. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

This intriguing but inchoate new work by Animals Performance Group riffs on a Chase Bank ad campaign with its title, “Chase: What Matters Most?,” and the workers’ shirts are emblazoned with Chase logos. Review: ‘Chase: What Matters Most?’: Banking After the Apocalypse 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The book, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal, is Black’s attempt to riff on another children’s book — about Trump’s Democratic rival. Michael Ian Black says his Trump kids’ book was inspired by Hillary Clinton 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Here Mime’s home is a trailer park campsite in front of a stunning scenic riff on Mt. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z

Softly rustling riffs and scratchy-sounding strings hover over an eerily subdued yet ever-present sustained low bass tone. The Berlin Philharmonic Tests a Musical Path Out of Lockdown 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

He stood spraying profanities like confetti, riffing on whatever was in his head. The afternoon Lenny Bruce and I spent cutting out newspaper pin-ups 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Strokes’ songs are as tightly wound as Vampire Weekend’s repertory; there’s a reason for each vocal line and guitar countermelody, each rhythm-guitar chord and bass riff. Jack White and Vampire Weekend at Governors Ball 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Although he is amiable and warm, he is also reticent and does not riff. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

And it riffs on the best impulses of humankind rather than the worst. Striking it Rich with ‘Logan Lucky’ 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

As Zalamanda notes, "riffs that get recycled might be the ones that are the most significant." Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z

Paul McCartney is riffing on song ideas, and the cameras catch the exact moment he pulls a chorus out of the air that will become the Beatles’ next single. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

A man presumed dead is back in action, but not for long as the revival of Kurt Vonnegut’s play, a riff on “The Odyssey” updated for the Vietnam War era, finishes its run. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

It's a thought that clouds the mind during This Is PiL's opening title track, a lumbering riff over which Lydon belches, screams, does funny voices and belligerently repeats variations on the title. Public Image Ltd: This Is Pil – review 2012-05-24T14:29:01Z

I think I mentioned the yoga, but there also is a food truck and a series of kind-of-ironic riffs on stuff like “Beverly Hills 90210” and “The Godfather.” Movie Review: Daryl Wein’s ‘Lola Versus’ With Greta Gerwig 2012-06-07T22:39:20Z

Some journalists offered ideas for other controversial sequels, riffing on the idea of characters acting against type: Celebrities and Writers React to 'Go Set a Watchman' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

An evening of hip-hop improv that asks you to lock up your phones and unlock an extremely embarrassing moment, which the cast then riffs on, runs out of rhymes. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is in this production’s knowing riffs on the Hitchcock sensibility that theatergoers looking for substance amid the inanity can find it, if they squint. Review: ‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

A bit on last-minute Christmas shopping, a riff on plastic Christmas trees? Free Conan: It’s time for the late-night host to break out of the studio and into something new 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

I don’t know what he’s singing about but it’s not really that important, that record has so much sex and sludge and amazing riffs in it all at the same time. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

Both songs open with a rolling triplet beat with a similar riff over a circular four-chord progression. A British Volkswagen Ad Sounds Like Beach House 2012-06-07T22:20:38Z

Though he was taunted in the opening sketch, new hire Michael Longfellow made a strong showing in this Weekend Update segment in which he riffed on having different political views from his family in Arizona. ‘S.N.L.’ Season Premiere Weighs in on Its Own Trump Sketch 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

Coming up, says Tien: Parker House rolls veined with scallions and shallots, a riff on Chinese scallion pancakes. At Emilie’s, chef Kevin Tien wants to throw a dinner party every night 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

He was nicknamed Jay-Z, a riff on jazzy and Brooklyn's J/Z subway, when he was a kid, tapping out raps on his mother's kitchen table. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

This inconvenience has in no way prevented Mr. Slimane from continuing to riff on the image of a person who sometimes seems to have dressed herself at the little boy’s department of the Leather Man. Celine’s New Wave Man 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Thrilling percussion-led riffs send the music soaring, only to subside, giving way to brooding conversations between bass and cello. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Not to his adoring public, some of whom likely strummed out some air guitar riffs in parasocial celebration. As Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit, "believe all women" loses 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

One judge praised a riff by Camryn Hedge, 10, and her squirrel, Primrose: “I like the running gag of the nuts. There’s a naïveté to it.” What Do 525 Ventriloquists Do at a Convention? Ask Their Dummies 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Thompson is in charge of the libations, which include a Chinese riff on an Old-Fashioned, infused with an herbal syrup, and a Negroni flavored with roasted five-spice. Queen’s English heralds a taste of Hong Kong in Columbia Heights 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

But Jackson’s supporters held the protesters at bay and riffed on the chants with one of their own: “Every day, KBJ” they shouted back. Black women are leaning into joy throughout Jackson’s hearings: ‘We need to celebrate this’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Whole stretches of the score are driven by pulsing rhythmic figures and repetitive riffs that envelop Tim and Hawk in scary bliss, or, more menacingly, tap into the hysteria gripping the government. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

I'm afraid this was the high point in a farrago of leaden jokes, ill-observed "observational" riffing and a yawningly familiar cast of teen idlers, old fools and Shameless-inspired lowlife. Rewind TV: Dragons' Den; Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words; My Life as a Turkey: Natural World Special 2011-08-06T23:05:53Z

I heard that guitar, what a great riff! “He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s about Hollywood, obviously; no film since The Artist has lavished so much airtime on the mechanics of the movie biz, nor riffed so lovingly on its folklore. Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Greatest Story Ever Told was Bergman’s first large-scale US production but it was 1973’s The Exorcist – riffing off a lifetime playing wracked men of God – which catapulted von Sydow to international acclaim. Max von Sydow, star of The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal, dies aged 90 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Carey’s odd duck of a book is less a proper novel than a riff on the entwined themes of fatherhood and creative spark. P.O.V.: You’re Geppetto, Missing Your Wooden Son From Inside the Belly of a Fish 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

We also like novels of class lines and family history, one set in Los Angeles and the other a riff on “Mrs. Dalloway” set in modern-day Philadelphia. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

This Atlanta-born rapper’s moniker riffs on the word “jittery,” which his grandmother used to describe him as a child. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Jimi Hendrix Experience  Things turn full circle in this legendary impromptu performance, as the man who inspired the birth of the riff grabs ahold of it himself. Jack Bruce: The Man Who Turned on the “Sunshine” Turns 70 2013-05-14T18:46:56Z

Jr. is accompanied by Sean Hayes on piano in a wonderfully silly episode that even allows them to riff and perform Billy Joel's "My Life." Robert Downey Jr. reconnects with his filmmaker dad in Netflix's poignant documentary "Sr." 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The designer, who was one of the first to riff on visible underwear, lost no opportunity to open a peep show window on what lay beneath. Fashion Review: Gaultier?s Couture Elegance ? With Eyeliner 2012-01-25T18:18:41Z

“Hamlet. A Version” is a riff on Shakespeare with no tiresome sentinels on the battlements, spying the ghost of the recently dead king. Review: To Be or Not to Be? Oh, Who Cares? A Different ‘Hamlet’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wiley’s work often features African-Americans in the regal poses of emperors and kings, his own distinctive riff on historic portraiture. Obama Portraitists Merged the Everyday and the Extraordinary 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Booka Shade generally writes dance tracks rather than pop songs: four-bar modules of beat, riff and sometimes chords, repeating some elements to segue into new ones. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z

To be sure, “Blind” holds promise at the start — Mr. Wright’s riff on the original joins the two characters just as angry citizens of Thebes are discovering their secret, and the tension is palpable. Theater Review | 'Blind': Oedipus Has iPhone (and Rage) 2010-03-09T08:16:00Z

Similarly, you may feel that our Hedwig is improvising as she riffs on subjects that now include the history of the Belasco, social media and Anderson Cooper. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z

It was intentional mismatching and deconstruction at the award-winning South Korean designer Juun J.’s fall display that riffed on the military. Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

This is a super intellect, but it occurred to me that while I was riffing as Pinky and he was laughing and the people online were laughing and all that stuff. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

A quick comic riff on the Scottish Play is a better fit. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The movie is often described as Mr. Meyer’s riff on “Our Town” — for instance, it employed an onscreen narrator named “The Man From Small Town U.S.A.” Kitten Natividad, Movie Star in Russ Meyer’s Bawdy World, Dies at 74 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The parts that riff directly off the Victoria Memorial read as biting satire. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Others riff on traditional conventions to playfully absurdist effect, including goblets with mismatched fancy handles. Review: In ‘No Two Alike,’ George Ohr’s Pottery Plays on Convention 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Thus, for the Dead Leaders Club, riffing on the notion of sacrificing an animal might indeed lead abruptly to just such an act. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

What starts off as a smart riff on “Rent” — poor bohemian girl falls for musician who can’t finish his song — soon becomes vague and merely pretty. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

And his work is useful to painters: female ones especially started riffing on Color Field in the late 1990s, and there’s a renewed appreciation for color. The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Playing slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, the comics take a little Romantic poets’ tour and riff off each other’s impressions. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Mean Girls’ 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Their verbal riffing is amusing in spite of Mr. Chou’s heavy accent and slow delivery, and they also demonstrate a lively physical rapport, aided by Mr. Gondry’s stop-and-start editing and his knack for hand-to-hand action. | 'The Green Hornet': Have Cool Car and Mask (and Sidekick), Will Travel for Justice 2011-01-13T22:53:25Z

The verbal humor is more a matter of riffing than of delivering neatly defined jokes, but the timing of the cast — notably including Jamie Foxx, as well as the others already mentioned — is impeccable. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z

Blondes, a duo, started with quiet, almost subliminal dance beats and added layer upon layer of riffs and rhythms until a seated theater audience was up and dancing. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

Her version of the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" offers sampled news snippets and keyboards that resemble experimental electronic compositions, as well as guitarist Adrian Belew adding the occasional jolting riff. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

The screen before us splits into nine sections across which images flit, dissolve and riff off one another. Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe 2010-09-29T20:30:00Z

The nine-part suite is about 30 minutes long, each number a riff on a familiar section of the original. Visions of Sugar Rum Cherries Tap Dance in Her Head 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

“NewsCycle is the very first cycling class focused on completely exhausting you mentally and physically,” he riffed. Perspective | If President Trump is making your news diet too heavy on chaos, here’s how to slim down 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

No surprise, the legend is recalled with one of his hallmark desserts, an elegant riff on a Kit Kat bar that went on to spawn copies around the country. At Masseria, a young gun salutes his mentors with a fancy feast 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Much of “A Speck of Dust” continues in the same vein as the Barbie riff, with explicit imagery and anecdotes designed to expose the absurdity of American gender politics. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

But just below the surface the music teems with inner details: flourishes of offbeat counterpoint for the voices, squiggling riffs for the instruments. Review: In Time for the Holidays, Radiant Praetorius Carols 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Surely its inconvenience is far better than a riff with your in-laws. Perspective | Miss Manners: Rescind dog’s dinner party invitation 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

At the end of one Maron’s riffs, he turns to the audience and says “Am I right?” Marc Maron and the Comedy of Doubt 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Then came a startlingly flinty riff, set at a mean saunter: Mr. Frisell’s bracketing framework for the Blind Willie Johnson tune “It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine.” Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z

In his first post, Stew riffed on the food, breezes and sounds of Kenya. ArtsBeat: Stew in Africa: Artists at Play (and Work) 2011-08-02T14:10:01Z

At the very least, it has to have copious amounts of dead air to accommodate all that riffing, and a decent print to accommodate today’s giant HD television screens. Cheesy Movie Lovers, Rejoice: ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Returns 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I was on tour and I went into a closet to record it. I wrote one line with this riff in it and it ended up being the first line of the song,” said Greene. "It Was Meant to Happen": Alecia Moore and Dallas Green Team Up for You+Me 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

This is not like the rapper Vanilla Ice using the opening riff from “Under Pressure,” by Queen and David Bowie, in his hit “Ice Ice Baby,” adding just a single note. Why the “Blurred Lines” Verdict Should Be Thrown Out 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

His literary newsletters delighted his fans with humorous jabs at “big wine” and the critics who rewarded higher alcohol with higher point scores, including a lengthy riff on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” called, “The Vinferno.” Reflecting the hardships of the business, an iconoclastic critic of ‘Big Wine’ sells his indie vineyard 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Her riffs on Madonna and “The Hite Report” offer the kind of acid one-liners English critics can reel out in their sleep, whereas what we need her to do is explain the world to us. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Soon there were several brewers experimenting with their own barrel-aged riffs. In Chicago, a Tasting Tour of Barrel-Aged Beer 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

At times their jangly riffs verge on powerpop, nothing to be ashamed of when it's done right. New band of the day - Drowners (No 1,415) 2012-12-13T16:23:18Z

A late riff about the difference between sexism and racism has the scope of C.K.’s most ambitious jokes, but seems underdeveloped and unsophisticated by his standards. Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

For this performance, the BSO played with reverence and assurance, thundering through the drum riffs and industrial hissing of cymbals to revel in the warmer sonorities and melodic passages. Review | New music? For Baltimore, yes, please. 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

The group knows its way around a heavy-metal riff but doesn’t chase after fusion labyrinths or prog-rock fantasias, beyond an occasional chord progression, like the one in “Pilgrims”, a highlight of the first half. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z

Finally, it’s the sameness of the songs on “13,” even as they seek variety through modular structure and serial riffs, that deflates the record and the listener. Black Sabbath’s New Album, ‘13’ 2013-06-07T16:18:21Z

In most rock songs the landmarks are standard ones: the beat, the riffs, the lyric. Music Review: Knocking, Twitching, Buzzing, Rasping 2011-06-09T21:45:27Z

“In their sense of noise the Velvets set up a frequency response in ‘Sister Ray’ that was metal if not in riff then in texture.” Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z

Prolong any table talk with one of the bar’s specialty drinks, maybe a pleasant riff on a Sazerac, made here with cognac and Creole bitters. Alfie’s nails the look of Thailand, if not the country’s most complex flavors 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Soft rolled timpani and drum riffs provided rumbling aural support, almost never marking the passage of time with pulsing beats. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ferguson riffed, invoking the name of a legendary Los Angeles coffee shop. Television: ?House of Lies,? Comedy About Consultants With Don Cheadle 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

Damon Runyon's 1933 short story "What, No Butler?" is an obvious riff on the cliché and PG Wodehouse's 1957 comic novel "Something Fishy" was published in the US as "The Butler Did It". Why do we think the butler did it? 2010-12-09T12:57:00Z

Meanwhile, in the spaces between Dovaleh’s riffs, the retired judge recalls his late wife and his brief childhood friendship with the comedian. Review | David Grossman’s new novel presents a stand-up comic in crisis 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Most memorable of all at an early dinner was a riff on poutine: french fries scattered with bits of rabbit and goat cheese curds that Adkins gets from Peachy Family Dairy in Pennsylvania. Quirk works and chard rules at Sally’s Middle Name 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Plus, it makes for a nice Chicago homage — Richards' riff mimics the version that the Staple Singers recorded in 1961. What's the ideal Rolling Stones set list? 2013-05-23T22:14:00Z

They riffed on things that even we weren’t reading into the lines we had written, they made it so much more fun. Animation: Five awards-contending directors take us behind the lines 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

When Barr trots out a stale gag about gender, riffing on the question “What is a woman?” she gets a predictable roar. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

What was the last electric-guitar riff to become a cultural touchstone — or even a meme? Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z

More often — as in the case of the “My Dinner With Andre” parody — the series would riff on something more obscure, particularly by the standards of network television. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Community’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The first movement is a haunting series of cyclic riffs, swirling runs and fidgety flights that skirt major and minor keys. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

Some sections turned beguiling and innocent, with dancing riffs and delicate orchestral writing. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House’s sound thrives on repetition: lulling synthesizer drones, flowing guitar riffs and clipped phrases from the lead singer Victoria Legrand. Beach House at Webster Hall: The Art of a Set List 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

"My government was a stranger thing than anyone knew," Nixon observes in one of the many deadpan asides that make "Crooked" a droll riff on 20th century politics. In Austin Grossman's supernatural novel, 'Crooked,' Richard Nixon meets H.P. Lovecraft 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Some of the variations poke fun at the waltz by exaggerating little rhythmic riffs or ornamental turns of phrase; others spin the all-purpose theme into mystical flights. Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z

This phantasmagorical riff of reclamation, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, is the first offering in a Signature Theater season devoted to Ms. Parks. Suzan-Lori Parks, Defying Genres 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Prince, the wry appropriation artist, riffs on the tagline of another popular commercial of the era, for American Express: “Art and MTV – hey, don’t stay home without them,” he says. ArtsBeat: In Nod to Past, MTV Revives 'Art Breaks' 2012-03-30T13:00:18Z

My parents tell me I threw myself around the room with the abandon of a Toddler Rotten for the next three minutes, but I don't remember being impressed by Lydon's sneer or Jones's riffing. My 10 favourite Beastie Boys tracks 2013-05-04T09:00:00Z

Dave Cochran, the diminutive bassist, continues to look vaguely bored as he fingers out earthquake riffs. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z

It's as bleak as a blues lyric, with a hard-as-nails riff to match. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

The riff on the “Match Game” “challenges your improv skills, your wit, and your impersonation skills,” one contestant explains. Review | ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ is just one gem in drag history’s crown. ‘Legendary Children’ looks at the performers and activists who paved the way. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Yes, Sinha scores cheap points at the expense of that party's flimsy ideology, including a routine that – riffing on Griffin's Holocaust denial – suggests alternative reasons for the sudden disappearance of six million Jewish people. Paul Sinha ? review 2011-02-25T12:30:32Z

It’s also a reverie, a riff on “Mrs. Dalloway” and a love story. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Their most recent acquisition is Roy Lichtenstein’s tabletop sculpture “Brushstroke Head II,” a Pop Art riff on the kind of gestures seen in the Pritchards’ nearby drawing of a woman by Willem de Kooning. They Built a Home, and With It, a Collection 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

He started in performance art, making collaborative live pieces that collaged audio and riffed on pop culture. Dre Skull is the new sound of dancehall 2013-01-19T06:00:00Z

It is hard to escape, however, the sneaking suspicion that Miéville is riffing on the nature of fantasy itself and the complex relationship between the pusher of fantasy and their adoring, addicted audience. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

It's officially been 30 years since The Princess Bride opened in theaters and the Internet is celebrating appropriately — by riffing on the movie's most quotable lines, of course. It's Inconceivable to the Internet That The Princess Bride Came Out 30 Years Ago 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yeah, you start off initially riffing, and kind of being real funny. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z

What this comforting riff on a classic BBQ plate lacks in smoked meat, it makes up with in flavor, texture, and spice. What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s amazing: House of Cards, that venomous riff on the evils of American politics, suddenly scans as not just retro, but naive. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

“You know what I get asked every day? ‘Is rock-and-roll dead?’ ” he mused, as he turned the bridge of “The Pretender” into a Chuck Berry riff. Review | At the Anthem’s opening night, a rock-and-roll clinic from Foo Fighters 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The pushy, up-and-down, Eastern-tinged guitar line that opens the song, and the squirming guitar riff behind the chorus, turn this track from jaunty British Invasion pop into something far more urgent. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Those unacquainted with the play’s literary arcana can sit back and watch the cast riff jazzily on Ms. Scelsa’s punch-drunk dialogue. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Caprice” is all runs and riffs and fitful chords. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

Indeed, the subtitle is Klein’s riff on a phrase in one such headline: “Chance Witness Reveals.” Trying to Contain William Klein in One Show Isn’t Easy 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

But it’s also a clever riff on the family sitcom, as the establishment’s proprietor is the patriarch of a decidedly oddball family; most surprisingly, it treats that family with genuine affection, peccadilloes and all. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Contestants from as far away as Iran and New Zealand were allowed two minutes each and riffed on topics such as Obamacare, the recent bombing in Syria, the border wall with Mexico and China. 'Tremendous' Trump impersonator wins contest to host fake news show 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by a community garden, the venue — its name a riff on tohu-bohu, or hurly-burly — is a permanent year-round circus showcase. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The last song on “Fast Forward,” “Ode to Joy,” riffs on his hero, Beethoven, in the chorus. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Most of his compelling drinks are riffs on popular standards. Review | Hanumanh serves Laotian dishes and drinks so exciting they make a critic long to be a regular 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

But with so many stars turning their backs on him, he developed a daily riff against them — and the broader culture of celebrity in America. Trump Scorns the Pop Culture World He Once Cultivated 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

People were just emulating riffs, thinking they were clever because they were doing a 9/8 time change, noodling around on a load of classic Moogs or whatever. Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

The band’s debut album, released that same year, was sprinkled with environmental sounds, jagged guitar riffs. and other sonic detritus. Rita Lee, Brazil’s Queen of Rock, Is Dead at 75 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

While a pianist plays jazzy riffs on Edvard Grieg tunes, narrators introduce scenes and paper over gaps, like the elided fourth act. The Immediate Family Adapts 'Peer Gynt' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

There's no funk or blues riffing: this is stately, spooky, almost funereal. Herbie Hancock – review 2012-11-13T13:35:01Z

The songs’ structures are meat and potatoes: opening guitar riff, verse, chorus, bridge. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

He remixes melancholy vocals into promises of redemptions, and he’s more than adept at the step-by-step buildup from beat to pulsing bass riff to whooshing, triumphal chordal fanfares. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z

Good Times' famous riff has been sampled countless times, most famously in The Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight. 10 essential Nile Rodgers songs: a beginner's guide 2013-05-03T16:38:00Z

There is even a brand, Silpat, whose name is a riff on silicone. From breast implants to ice cube trays: How silicone took over our kitchens 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peele’s passenger-seat riff on being ashamed that he’s half white leads into a sketch about wanting to infiltrate that whitest of institutions, the a cappella group. In ‘Key & Peele’ Season Premiere, a Shift in Tone and Volume 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

The three-man Aussie sketch troupe responded admirably, riffing the moment into the dialogue. Edinburgh comedy notebook: Is this amateur night? 2011-08-10T15:18:19Z

The aesthetic visions, broadly speaking, riff on ideas related to leisure pastimes, popular culture, and forms of self-expression, including beauty regimes. Diaspora: ‘Flow’ at IDB Cultural Center; Kazakh music at the Kennedy Center

Once the dialogue started, she would not offer Mr. Trump a chance to riff as he had in his rallies, and she peppered him with rapid, well-informed follow-ups. Savannah Guthrie Is Feeling Lucky 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

Dubstep is dense and bass loving; trap is hollow, with sparse bass lines, nasal synthesizer riffs and spatters of snare drum. Critic’s Notebook: Electric Zoo Festival Cut Short by Two Deaths 2013-09-01T22:23:22Z

A lot of producers nowadays are building their tunes around a strong synth riff, as opposed to a distinctive bassline being the integral part of the song. Mobile disco: how phones make music inescapable 2010-08-12T21:30:00Z

Yet the songs also tend to metamorphose as they go, starting out perky and pointillistic and ending up, perhaps, in a brass-section chorale or a brawny rock guitar riff. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z

There’s double recycling for “Don’t Stop the Party”: It’s based on T J R’s “Funky Vodka,” a house-music success using the piano riff from Toots and the Maytals’ reggae classic “Funky Kingston.” New Music: Albums by Pitbull, Keyshia Cole and Kurt Rosenwinkel 2012-11-19T22:50:42Z

How did you take something that everybody thinks that they have, this is the perfect mac and cheese recipe, and then start to riff on that? "Oprah, you need to try this": Chef Kenny Gilbert on fusion food and his famous fried chicken 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

The tip-off for the tone is, no surprise, the title, which is so transparently ripe for innuendo riffing that it's almost embarrassing. Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart buddy up in the cliched 'Get Hard' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

There was much laughter as the writers riffed off one another, talking in the animated and overlapping shorthand of funny people who are accustomed to working together. A Long Day at ?The Office? with Mindy Kaling 2011-09-25T04:30:05Z

A lead member of Odd Future until his reported recent departure, he riffed with Kanye West and Schoolboy Q on his third solo album, “Cherry Bomb,” released in April. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the first movement, “Fragmented Time,” the violin plays a near-continuous line of buzzing, fitful notes, riffs and chords. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z

The plot allowed the "Mystery Science Theater" crew to riff away on forgettable films like "Teenage Cave Man" and "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." Movie riffs making comeback from theaters to clubs 2012-08-16T18:59:14Z

Devine was glad The Slap took up only a little of the set and enjoyed Rock's riffs on America's biggest addiction: attention. "This was real and raw": Fans weigh in on Chris Rock's special, from trans jokes to Slap clapback 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

His example: “Black & Blue,” the song on which Jenkins’s film title riffs. Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Without the allure of its hosts — not to mention fearless riffing from Rogen and, later, Ice Cube – we might not even call it watchable. The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

His new songs relied on brutally stark synthesizer riffs and drumbeats, closer to industrial dance music than to current hip-hop, and they were delivered on Sunday through a sound system with bone-rattling bass. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

His style is deeply wedded to the traditional produce of Emilia-Romagna but with a distinctly progressive riff and sensibility — far from the rusticity of a conventional osteria. The Jewel of Modena: Osteria Francescana 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z

A swinging riff repeats again and again, punctuated each time by two bold chords. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Other options could include mayonnaise-dressed lobster or crab salad, as kind of riff on a Yankee lobster roll. Riffing On One of the World’s Great Sandwiches 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

And while Mr. Chappelle shows up at clubs and spends hours onstage riffing, gathering ideas through free association, Mr. Rock’s process is much more focused and linear, like his comedy. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The movie's ensemble easily riffs off of one another as they come to learn how they best fit together, an onscreen chemistry that has already won them the Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award. "Nudity representation matters": From horny elders to BTS Army, "Joy Ride" rewrites who gets seen 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

When I heard “Toxic,” that sounded like a Crimson riff. Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Precisely what Bruner-Yang hoped patrons would do: mingle with one another in the chef’s riff on tachinomiya, the standing bars popular in Japan. Review | At Spoken English, step right up and mingle 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

But in a heartfelt performance that brought to mind a virtuosic jazz artist riffing out the essence of a signature melody, Ms. Greene demonstrated that she still unconditionally holds the patent on Audrey. Review: In ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a Ravenous Plant Is Reborn at City Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Twilight's just the latest text to riff on these themes. Leave Twilight fans alone! 2010-07-17T12:59:00Z

While purporting to contemplate the modern phenomenon that is fan fiction, “To Tell My Story” is of course itself a fan fiction, riffing off Shakespearean characters and events. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The lyrics are a mix of English and Korean, the style riffs on funk and hip-hop, and the music video was filmed on a New York City-inspired set. A K-Pop Star Didn’t High-Five Black Fans. Was It Racism? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Laurie also joined Bright on the guitar for "Whining Boy" and, after the Canadian riffed, he quipped: "I could do that stuff, I just choose not to." Hugh Laurie, Dr John, Trombone Shorty in New Orleans tribute 2012-07-10T13:38:34Z

A riff on classic Country Captain, the grilled fish, splayed across a puddle of grits, gets a kick from a tomato gravy laced with curry. Postcard From Tom: Asheville’s more than just the foothills of Southern cuisine

Disappointed to see Chandler hailed as a martyr, J. D. delivers a cynical riff about the emptiness of life: “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The first begins with manic bursts of arpeggios that sweep up the keyboard and cascade down in crystalline riffs, finally breaking into a restless melodic line that unfurls amid rustling figurations and teeming chords. Review: A Teenage Virtuoso Prevails in a Liszt Endurance Test 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The eclectic, audacious score — for vocal soloists, chamber orchestra, rock band — combines angular modernism, ’60s-style rock, echoes of Weill, hints of Edwardian ballads, riffs on Bach chorales and more. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the book's entertaining riffs on language — musing on the difference between a sobriquet and a nickname, or the reason why a supermarket misspells its name "Piomeer" — are more significant than they first appear. 'A Drop of the Hard Stuff': A Great American Crime Novel 2011-05-10T19:55:00Z

Metaverse avatars and A.I. programs are intrinsically derivative: They are all but guaranteed to be riffs on already existing artists and their works. A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Many of the looks are topped off with a cap, some done in a print, appropriately named “Hats Off,” riffed from a rendering of Queen Elizabeth by Cecil Beaton. | L'Wren Scott 2012-06-13T17:44:37Z

A riff on duck a l’orange is shy on its promised citrus note; if preserved kumquats were in the mix, my fork didn’t find them. Review | Requin, worthy of its premier spot at the District Wharf 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

His occasional whistling of a Mozart riff proves a vital clue to what’s going on. Review: ‘Three’ Asks, Any Mozart Aficionados in the House? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The riffs are laughable, and I don't mean that as praise. 'Horrible Bosses 2' has horribly funny moments, but too few 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

It’s funnier than it sounds; in fact, it’s uproarious, dense with quotable quips and pieces of personality, with shiny riffs buzzing like static off a blanket. Review: Courtney Barnett's 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit' Is One of the Best Albums of the Year 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Single-note riffs, made of notes as fat and furrowed as truck tires, get pushed through old amps and a flagon of echo. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z

The version of Afro Blue is a classic, maintaining a clarity and solemnity over the formal dance of its instrumental riff. Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010-05-20T21:01:00Z

He laid down one of the most memorable opening riffs of all time on the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby.” Hal Blaine, drummer who played on thousands of hits, dies 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Bass and drums staked out sinewy, deliberate, unswerving riffs. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

When he needs an equal or rival to think twice about coming for him, he riffs like a jazz great. In this exclusive clip from "The Morning Show," Billy Crudup's network CEO loses his grip 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

Yet his ode to Mr. King will appear alongside a film called “The New Black Yoga,” a funny riff on learning yoga in a foreign country. Rashid Johnson?s Show ?Rumble,? a Nod to Don King 2012-01-05T19:29:14Z

The giant diptych places the artist’s alter ego, a cross-dressing figure called Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, at the center of unsettling riffs on European colonization narratives. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Flitting from frothy pop-culture riffs about the Carpenters to grim gags involving drinking the blood of dopey but innocent hippies, Dark Shadows is Burton's oddest film since Big Fish. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-10-13T23:05:39Z

Caviar is deployed only once, in a riff on chips and dip. Pineapple and Pearls review: Dining so fine, we’re seeing 4 stars from the start 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

A second went by, then another, and the echoing guitar riff rose in volume. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lang and Mr. Ax even took turns at the piano, playing boogie-woogie riffs. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

At this stage, they riff off each other like fashion’s version of Bogart and Bacall, alternately needling, praising and encouraging each other. An Insider’s Account of Manolo Blahnik 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Wavering masses of sound are jarred with squiggly instrumental riffs. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Put it this way: he's very into his riffs. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z

Stewart tried to riff on the announcement along with Wilmore, with awkward results. 'Daily Show's' Larry Wilmore has problems with black Captain America 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Live, as on record, the quintet have high production values and big arrangements, and choruses come wrapped in pounding riffs. Bring Me the Horizon – review 2013-04-03T17:45:54Z

With the instrumentation’s newfound clarity, swelling shoegazey riffs provide a backdrop for his gossamer vocals on songs like album opener “Malison.” Hibou turns anxiety into music on his new album, ‘Something Familiar’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Irons was born on the Isle of Wight, educated at Sherborne, then, sick of the ramrod types he has ended up riffing on since, thought he would join the circus. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Done For Good has a clattering urgency with its riffs and drums and lyric about betrayal, which as Richard Hell once pointed out, takes two. New band of the day – Skaters (No 1,418) 2012-12-18T16:55:00Z

Media reports say that the court case is likely to be based on allegations that the famous Stairway to Heaven opening guitar riff loosely resembles guitar work on an instrumental called Taurus. Led Zeppelin face copyright fight 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the middle ground there are more assertive bursts of intervals, chords and riffs; in the foreground are fleeting melodic bits, often played on solo strings and reinforced by short blasts from the brass. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

The Black Keys, meanwhile, take one Muddy Waters riff, soak in T-Rex solution for 40 years and crack open in Akron, Ohio. Readers recommend: songs about gold – results 2012-07-26T15:03:00Z

The pair riffs on Cage’s reputation as an “exaggerated, screaming psychopath” whose dream “is to appear in every film ever released” and in whose action movies “all the dialogue is either whispered or screamed.” Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

The ensemble delivered many of the elements you might expect from a consort of electric guitars, like growling chords, squealing feedback and flamboyant riffs, alongside the rhythmic discipline honed in more conventional contemporary classical music. Review: Dither Delivers an Electric-Guitar Master Class 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

The Egyptian-born, L.A.-based artist riffed on a traditional Middle Eastern pigeon tower used in Egyptian villages. Desert X aims to be the Coachella of the art world. Here's a sneak peek 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Released in 1956, it opens with a nimble, bendy guitar riff — a prelude to the one that would be perfected a year later, on “Johnny B. Goode” — that serves as an intrusion and an enticement. Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Minutes later, some edgier, stuttering exhalations precede a thundering percussion riff. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

After pausing for jokes at one point — he riffed that the crowd was the blackest he’d seen during the tour, even after a stop in Atlanta — he proceeded to the song’s second half. Review | Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples show how fame doesn’t always lead to happiness 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Instead of traditional pineapple upside-down cake, try this playful riff on the standard with yogurt company siggi’s Icelandic yogurt pear upside-down cake. Pear upside-down cake for Christmas dessert: Try this recipe 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Chappelle only doubled down after that, responding to being assaulted on stage by riffing that his attacker was "a trans man." Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Without a show, someone like Nicholas Raefksi would have little luck drawing attention to his witty riffs on high school archetypes. Men’s Wear Hustles to Stay in the Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

"Precious" has the feel of an old western song, except it's driven by a humming tremolo guitar riff and relentless maracas. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

When I asked Dorie if I could include her iconic cake in our forthcoming "Simply Genius" cookbook, she generously handed it over, and three of her favorite riffs on it, too. The Dorie Greenspan cake we all should know 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

The single “Bittersweet Me,” meanwhile, trades on Buck’s familiar, jangly riffs. A road album without borders: R.E.M.’s “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” turns 20 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

It is more an experiment than an actual film, a riffing tribute to our culture's infatuation with the Spider-Man character that flaunts Oscar-worthy animation and meta humor which is sometimes witty and sometimes obnoxiously ironic. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a beautiful, bold, overstuffed melodrama 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Stargate exchanges guitar for a keyboard riff that’s far too close to “The Way You Make Me Feel,” and their dance beat treats the rising angst of Jackson’s vocal as a distraction. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

It’s a riff off a British show, right? “Wire” actor on his famous catchphrase: “I still say it” 2013-09-05T14:40:00Z

Elsewhere on the EP there are gunshots and swear words, rock guitar riffs and melodies that sound as much like emo as they do "soul". New band of the day ? No 1,205: Angel 2012-02-10T09:00:00Z

It did, and as I listened and sipped a pint of Guinness, I riffed ruminatively around the experience. A Telecaster Master at the Living Room 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Klausen describes the images via text, revealing their subtleties and symbolism, sumptuous visual riffs on sacred geometry, alchemy and classical philosophy. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

Or even Stephen Sondheim’s bracing title song of “Company,” with its insistent refrains of “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby baby” over a rhythmic riff that evokes a telephone busy signal. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

Indeed, the riffs and rhythms of the pop source infect every aspect of the orchestral work. An unexpected Prom date with Beyonc? and her Single Ladies 2010-09-02T11:51:00Z

The guitars add heft, distortion and some unison riffing; the tempos don’t rush. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

On “Relentless Mind,” traces of Minimalist ideas percolate, as melodic patterns expand and contract over swinging riffs. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

The series is a comic riff on the King Arthur legends, and in this book Sir Gawain the True gets a lesson in courtesy and friendship. 'Bigger Than a Bread Box' among tasty new novels for kids 2011-11-26T03:03:45Z

Viewed from a distance, her works look like flawlessly executed oil paintings, riffing on Italian Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age tradition. Ingenious artist Katherine Ace shows work at Seattle's Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2010-09-22T23:13:00Z

The continual, anguished collapsing seemed cartoony against the score’s antic qualities, its riffs on Franz Liszt with saxophone and harpsichord. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z

"This recipe is a riff on a delightful iced tea that gets served in the summer at both Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant and Stumptown Coffee in Portland, Oregon," said recipe developer hardlikearmour. 34 best nonalcoholic cocktails for flavor-filled, booze-free sipping 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The vamp might be wacked out like the You Really Got Me riff; or Brubeck latterly took to introducing Take Five subliminally with a faraway impressionistic intro. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

This brand of arch, inside-baseball riffing is a scourge on modern family films, present in almost every animated movie with an all-star cast. ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Review: #ReleaseTheLassieCut 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

And yes, this somehow manages to work, embedded in elegant, ballet-infused spatial patterns and earthy folk dancing riffs. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s ‘Cassations’ at the 92nd Street Y 2012-10-09T21:57:26Z

From the start, sections of the orchestra, especially the strings, play undulating, lapping motifs that murmur and bustle, as if rhythmic riffs and whole themes were trying to coalesce into forms more concrete. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony Plays Mahler and Samuel Carl Adams 2012-09-30T21:54:38Z

Even in these half-a-note riffs, the reader glimpses prime Ditko, what Mr. Faceplant calls “the psychotropic infinities of other dimensions” and “the barren and otherworldly wastelands of his planets and moons.” Steve Ditko's Thugs and Mystics 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Yet by the looks of the trailer, Kick-Ass 2 will have to tread carefully to avoid aping the films it riffs on too closely. Will Kick-Ass 2 stay offbeat as our self-made superheroes polish their act? 2013-03-14T11:54:38Z

One way for a star actor to expand his range is to play a riff on his basic character in a strategically different context. Crazy Cops in Toronto: McConaughey and Harrelson Go Splendidly Sicko 2011-09-14T14:25:00Z

That was the mission statement that opened Television’s debut album, with a trilling riff and a warped Bo Diddley beat: new and old, terse and encompassing, absolutely committed. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The show's heart often plays like "heart" -- much more so than NBC's "Parks and Recreation," a more earnest and authentically warm series that has more to do with observable reality than pop culture riffing. Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z

In the opening movement of “Foreign Bodies,” the orchestra dug into a martial riff with impressive vigor. Review: The New York Philharmonic Gets Audacious, With Ease 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Instead of using Pernod in his delicious riff on oysters Rockefeller, the chef relies on absinthe — sprayed via an atomizer over the baked bivalves at the table. Here’s proof you should dip into Richmond’s diverse restaurant scene 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Anne Nichols’s boisterous, unapologetically broad riff on interfaith marriage shattered Broadway records at the time, spawning radio and film spinoffs — as well as a knockoff similar enough to warrant legal action. The Smart Set Sneered, but the Play Won the Day 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Gleeson works harder than he has to, to deliver something more than just another riff on a Trump impression; while never completely convincing, he does impart the right mix of ignorance, arrogance and malevolence. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

A Bette Davis/Joan Crawford riff also seems a tired camp concession to gay fans. 2010-01-22T01:28:00Z

Lucian's story was meant as a riff on travelers' tall tales, but the British Library said some considered it one of the world's first works of science fiction. Exhibit finds sci-fi themes in unexpected places 2011-05-19T16:46:04Z

Take, for instance, the bravura poem “38,” a riff on the 38 Dakota men hanged in December 1862, just days before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

A popular insult is to call something “stock”—caustic shorthand for lame and boring, the riff equivalent of clip art. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

This particular Reading Sunday also has a defining sound – a blues rock riff, played like blues rock still matters. Reading festival 2012: the smell of Sunday 2012-08-27T15:03:44Z

There’s some enticing talent behind this contemporary riff on the classic fairy tale, in which the heroine is a young woman taken to a sleep-disorder clinic after dozing for, ahem, several centuries. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z

Pull up a cocktail shaker or a blender and try some of these riffs on the classic cocktail. 17 best margarita recipes because it's 5 o'clock somewhere 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, "Lucy" is an eccentric, idiosyncratic riff founded on the oft-expressed notion that human beings use only 10% of their brain capacity. 'Lucy' is an action-packed waste of brain power 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Then they riffed on that by pretending to roast people by actually saying nice things. Snubs, surprises and a Satanic shout-out? Key Globes moments 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The actors, who are all great on their feet, build on those extra jokes or just riff on the ideas that are in the scene. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Meriwether Answers Your 'New Girl' Questions 2013-02-05T16:00:20Z

Quickly after the last riff, she was smiling, gregarious, normative. Music Review: Salome and Landmine Marathon at Union Pool 2010-07-14T21:46:00Z

The difficult orchestra part erupts with obsessive accompaniment riffs, swirling inner voices and astringent sustained harmonies. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z

The music is suddenly exuberant and crazed, with spiraling riffs and cyclic instrumental figures, and manic bursts of syllables and sputtering from the chorus. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z

The riff architecture created by Hanneman and King was key to the band’s music, with the two playing rhythm-lead lines at opposite ends of the stage with blinding aggression. Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 2013-05-02T23:22:00Z

Onstage, Lee felt more daring than on recordings, adding a riff here and a sustained high note there. Review | Shaed adds color but needs more depth at its D.C. homecoming show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Beginning and ending with calmly lyrical riffs of guitar music, a series of horrific scenes are enacted on a bare stage by actors in monochrome costumes. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z

The Bon Marché display, too, incorporated mirrors that started on the floor: the shoes went on infinitely in a wall of reflections, a riff on the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles. Thom Browne’s Shoes: High Fashion and High Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

His signature sculptural image — a no-frills, no-content wood or metal box — had not only been adapted by other artists, but also riffs on it became a fixture of international architecture and design. The Many Moods and Pleasures of Judd’s Objects 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The seven-minute sketch riffs on their 1997 film Good Burger, the tale of two delightfully inept fast food workers that is now a cult classic in the nostalgia canon. Kenan and Kel Reunite at Good Burger on 'The Tonight Show' 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

When you hear the riff, something deadly is on the way. ‘(Don’t Fear) the Reaper’ Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Autopsy took a large slab of doom with its death; its songs lurch from lumbering Sabbath-esque elephant riffs to ranting breakneck rushes of head trauma and back again, an oozing cancerous stepchild of prog. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

Most are precisely what Maltzan is riffing on at One Santa Fe: depressingly expedient stick-built apartment buildings, five or six stories of modest rental units above a concrete parking podium. Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

He came up with a keyboard riff and by the end of the day they had recorded Aeroplane's first single, Caramellas. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z

The two starting jamming and after a while, they called in a few musician friends and continued to riff. For Ravid Kahalani, every show is a world tour

More successful are the pounding Transform and ABC City, a picture of inner-city desolation rendered cheerful by a child's-play keyboard riff and bright, buzzing guitars. Holograms: Holograms – review 2012-08-02T20:15:01Z

Schumer kicked things off with a bang, riffing: “I’m probably like 160 lbs. right now, and I can catch a d**k whenever I want. It’s not a problem.” Amy Schumer slays the Glamour Awards with hilarious NSFW speech: “I’m 160lbs and I can catch a d**k any time I want” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It was hard to anticipate what “SNL” would do for its cold open just weeks into a new administration, with nothing as reliably chaotic as a Trump news conference to riff on. ‘SNL’ skewers Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout and GameStop, reminding us that things are still very bad 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

What comes through immediately is that the chords, riffs, fragments and themes have been chosen with precision. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

And he gives us a heady sampling of his own work, including a rainbow mural made for the occasion, which riffs on, updates, and queers Native art forms and traditions. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Onstage, Andrew W.K. is an idiosyncratic musician who is perched behind the piano, playing a headbanging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde riffs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Crowd members distributed protest signs that riffed on art history. “Dear Ivanka”: New York City’s Artists Appeal to Ivanka Trump, Peer to Peer 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Arnwine plays rugged drum patterns against those riffs, adding little accents to the groove, smashing her cymbals nearly all the way through. Review: Pinkwash, Songs in the Key of Catharsis 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Each installment of this monthly event screens a movie while subjecting it to the riffing talents of a guest panel of comedians. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Then it was just about riffing on the idea in shades of silver, navy, café au lait and gray. Special Report: Transparent Choices 2010-09-26T16:42:00Z

Fairly or not, it’s easiest to describe Patrick deWitt, so far, as a novelist who riffs on things. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

One tune began with a gospel invocation on piano, coalesced around a staccato riff, and shifted into 12/8 polyrhythm before smoothing into a slower gear. Marc Cary Brings His Jazz Specialty to Ginny’s Supper Club 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The opening riff from "Sixteen Saltines" came out of simply trying to test the reverb. In first solo album, Jack White taps a blue vein 2012-05-03T14:01:11Z

In “Skin Game” in the main space, the maverick performance artist and erstwhile sculptor Michael Mahalchick riffs on appropriation and popular culture. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Ten Years Later,” with its adults now playing adults, is less emotionally rooted and its parody more scattershot, including a riff on ’90s stalker flicks like “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.” Nostalgia Goes Niche in ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Coates’s illuminating “Incarnations” translates this balanced partnership into performance, riffing on the structure of a classroom lecture. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The celebration aims to be a nontraditional take on love, with poets and playwrights reimagining and riffing on traditional sonnets and other love poems. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Using up to 14 projected images at a time, the group operates like an optical jazz band, riffing and scatting to create ephemeral "films" scored by live or recorded music. Single Wing Turquoise Bird flashes back to its '60s light shows 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Yet the word is that “THREE PIANOS,” a loose and lively riff on “Winterreise” at the New York Theater Workshop, may be just the cure for seasonal affective disorder. The Week Ahead: Dec. 19 ? 25 2010-12-16T15:14:51Z

Either way, their first new single in five years is a corker, all dry-as-a-bone guitar riffs, stop-start drums and Casablancas's mumbled croon sounding reassuringly familiar. New music: The Strokes ? Under Cover of Darkness 2011-02-10T12:01:00Z

Though lyrically it trolls familiar dark territory — he declares himself the “Mephistopheles of Los Angeles” — musically it leans toward crunchy, spare blues rock riffs and away from industrial-sounding overproduction. A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kitamura then hands the soloist’s baton to Michael Mayo, whose riffing engages more directly with the scat singing of bebop and later a cappella trends. The Sumptuous, Sour Music of Cory Smythe 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

This is, in essence, a riff on the ramifications of an actor being required, as a condition of employment, to kiss another actor eight times a week, or more. When is a 'Stage Kiss' not just a kiss? >> Video: Scenes from the play 2011-05-10T02:37:52Z

Many of Drooker’s images riff on life in New York, and we recently sat down with the artist to talk about autumn in the city. Eric Drooker’s “Central Park Row” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Vexx Berserktown II festival, Santa Ana, Calif., Aug. 16: Vexx, from Olympia, Wash., plays sturdy and elegant songs with trebly and powerful riffs, a partial echo of early West Coast punk. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Delicate scraping sounds, rumbling drum riffs, sudden thwacks and conch blasts became like a sporadic musical commentary on the stories. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

On Friday, in what amounted to a back-to-basics reboot, that meant riffs relentless as a diesel engine, low and gnarly and precise. Music Review: Revisiting and Recharging an Album With a Fleshed-Out Crew 2011-03-27T22:14:47Z

"That little bluesy riff has been sitting in my mind for a while," said the singer, who appears at Jazz Alley Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 11-14, in a phone interview. Karrin Allyson brings heartbreak to Jazz Alley 2011-08-03T01:39:31Z

She warns against consumerism, comparisons and artificial peer pressure; she gradually stacks up electric guitar riffs and then breaks them down to a little percussion and a lone, undaunted voice. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

“I know way more folks getting bills right now/than I knew last year,” he sang at the beginning of his set, riffing on Drake’s “Over.” Music: Kem and Jos? James Perform in New York 2010-08-10T22:28:00Z

So Mr. Lagree riffed on traditional Pilates moves and developed a workout that made him, in his words, “a sensation overnight.” Sebastien Lagree’s Megaformer Machines Put the Sweat in Pilates 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Josh Bailey, 14 years free of alcohol, riffs for 20 minutes, mixing scripture with stories of his past. Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

It was stirring and devastating, full of impressive vocal riffs sung heartily, all delivered as if he might not ever get another chance. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

Then comes a guitar riff so heavy and hazy it’s almost not a riff at all; it actually sounds like some futuristic noise that might appear on a video game. Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z

Over the years, Heatter used the airy, lemon-scented confection as a foundation for various cheesecake riffs. Remembering Maida Heatter, a Charmingly Shameless Self-Promoter Who Became a Legend of Desserts 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

A regal Equipal chair in leather and stainless steel is a modern riff on the emblematic wood-and-leather chair from Mexican history. Mexican designer Alexander Andersson discovers furniture designs by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The dramatic concept was both startling intricate and familiar, a Postmodern mélange of the French Revolution and Beaumarchais’ Figaro trilogy, with riffs on many popular operas. Critic's Pick: 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Hwang riffs here on the electoral absurdity that ushered into the nation’s highest office a candidate who did not receive the majority of the votes. Review | Ever wondered how China sees America? ‘Soft Power’ offers amusing ideas. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ellis was riffing on Charlie Sheen, but it could have been Lohan. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z

Though the practical application of a course on movie riffing seems negligible, Mr. Hodgson has perhaps hit upon something in the age of social media. Joel Hodgson on ‘Mystery Science Theater’ and Riffs 2012-06-01T18:59:48Z

Mr. Strong, a pianist, was being managed by Mr. Gordy when, in a recording studio in Detroit, he began fiddling with a riff that was an imitation of one of his favorite artists. Barrett Strong, Whose ‘Money’ Helped Launch Motown, Dies at 81 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, West leans on lumpy metaphor, as in “Closed on Sunday,” with its extended riff on the fast food chain Chick-fil-A. Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

In the hotel room, it’s clear that Horovitz and Diamond are relishing the chance to spend time together, riffing on the old days. Inside the Beastie Boys’ wild, moving memoir 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Greeting the folks individually in the first row, he riffed rapid-fire about their occupations. Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an experience, this record, written in big riffs and celestial choirs and digital static. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

In 2015, he tweeted an image of a Coke bottle next to the phrase “open diabetes,” a riff on the ad slogan “open happiness.” Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Cedric the Entertainer, on hand to present an award, took that riff further: "Steven Spielberg, I want you to meet my nephew Jimmy," he said from the stage. The Carpetbagger: Zinging Spielberg and Hooper, Praising Bigelow and Lee 2013-02-04T18:05:08Z

Madea got the opportunity to riff about pain and heartache, forgiveness, and God and faith. Madea Honored the Strong Black Women I Grew Up With, but It’s Time to Move On 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Within the kaleidoscopic mélange of Art Deco sleekness and 1970s glam, tuxedoed waiters stride across the marble floor to deliver steak tartare, French toast dessert and other jazzy riffs on Continental classics. In Paris, the Bastille Neighborhood Recaptures Its Cool 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

My children go on riffs borrowing from it. Patinkin: Alert the media ? I'm talking as if I belong in a movie 2011-07-05T18:37:03Z

Facebook and Twitter, among others, are portals not dissimilar to the sad, empty cinema where Joel, Servo and Crow watched bad movies, their riffs providing a sense of community. Joel Hodgson on ‘Mystery Science Theater’ and Riffs 2012-06-01T18:59:48Z

When not riffing on the affectations of contemporary foodie culture, she has sport with the posturing of self-help gurus. ‘Season to Taste,’ by Natalie Young 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas I wrote the guitar riff first and I was trying to think what the song could be about. The stories of the Christmas hits 2010-12-26T00:55:51Z

An eerie tour through an aging woman’s psyche as it loosens its grip on reality, the book reads as a noir, a riff on the tropes of detective fiction. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Among the most initially inviting songs is “Valentine’s Day,” with its insinuating guitar riff and ascending chorus. Album review: David Bowie, 'The Next Day' 2013-03-07T17:26:00Z

Well they riff off each other, and things turn very quickly in the sentences that lead them onto some kind of bone of contention or something that they regret. Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

A drone and a hissing sound filled the hall as Floyd went into a simple riff. Pink Floyd: 'They don't dig creative complacency' – a classic feature 2013-03-06T15:27:41Z

The screeching guitar riffs, jagged rhythms and wailing intensity of Superstar’s rock score; the bouncy, hyperbolic, Latin-pop lyricism of Evita — next to them, almost any Broadway score today sounds like kids’ stuff. Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita: One Sings, the Other Doesn't 2012-04-10T12:00:32Z

Mr. Cosby used a riff from “I Started Out as a Child,” his 1964 album, about playing street football as a youngster in Philadelphia. Critic's Notebook: Bill Cosby Appreciation and Screenings at Paley Center for Media 2012-01-10T15:41:59Z

But Modelinia.com’s cool new T-shirts are emblazoned with model-related catchphrases that riff on well-known idioms and logos. T Magazine: The Medium Size Is the Message 2011-02-18T18:30:02Z

The famous lines written by Emma Lazarus on the base of the Statue of Liberty are riffs on Matthew 11:28. This can’t become our new normal: Hate acts reported across the country in wake of Trump’s victory 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The music unfolds in charged, fitful stretches: clashing chords, orchestra blasts, riffs that start up and get stuck in place. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

The occasionally angular guitar riffs and falsetto vocals are borrowed from Blur, while the attitude and vocal mannerisms come via Oasis. Viva Brother: Famous First Words - review 2011-07-28T14:30:00Z

Among his appetizers is a riff on steak tartare that replaces ground raw beef with minced roasted beets beneath a layer of citrusy papaya salad. Oval Room review: Under a new chef, it tastes as vibrant as ever 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The dense mix holds repetitive, inexorably building drumbeats; the sustained tones of an Indian tamboura; rippling keyboards and guitars that erupt from low, buzzing riffs to screaming leads. Katy Perry Dances Till the World Ends and M.I.A. Starts a New Wave 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Another writer, Kevin Kelton, recalled one of his earliest skits, in which Mr. Murphy, playing his recurring character Mister Robinson — a riff on Mister Rogers — finds a baby outside his apartment door. William G. Clotworthy, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Censor, Dies at 95 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Bad Cinderella,” a revisionist riff on the classic fairy tale, will close on June 4, bringing to an end, at least for the time being, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 43-year-long streak of shows on Broadway. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Had a Not Good Run on Broadway. It Will Close June 4. 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Say that’s why the text struck me as an actual test, not a casual riff on deal breakers. My compulsion to please: Polyamory, hunger and the neediness of denying what you want 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a missed opportunity—and perhaps a showdown or comeuppance deferred that his riffs on superheroes are based entirely in the nostalgia of comics, proceeding as if superhero movies, his nemeses, didn’t exist. “Glass,” Reviewed: M. Night Shyamalan’s Unsatisfying Obsession with Superheroes 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

On Cream’s first American hit, Baker provides a unique anchor to Jack Bruce’s iconic riff: Baker’s “backward” drum beat focuses on the first and third beats instead of the familiar, R&B-indebted backbeat. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

The program opened with a quasi-improvised, 50-minute piece called “Rituals,” in which the ensemble riffed on Stravinsky themes, including from “The Rite of Spring.” The Man Who Gives Form to the Sprawling Salzburg Festival 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

But even when Mr. Cornell’s voice is sparring with guitar riffs, as in songs like “Spoonman” or “Jesus Christ Pose,” he’s not just shouting or barking; he’s tracing larger shapes. Chris Cornell: A Spectacular Voice of Grunge, With a Glint of Tragedy 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Taking the podium and reading off of his phone, the artist launched into a staccato, spoken-word riff that lasted more than 10 minutes and incorporated seemingly free-associated words and phrases touching on L.A., Hammer Museum gala: Where Aloe Blacc, Paul McCarthy, Julia Roberts cross paths 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The dish nods to the deep-fried tradition of Anacostia carryouts while simultaneously elevating the neighborhood’s dining options with a riff on a steakhouse classic. At Capitol Hill Crab Cakes, the name may confuse you, but the food sure won’t 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Derek Miller, below left, wallops the riffs he’s assembled with guitars, electronics and drum machines and other gadgets, usually cranked up and maxed out. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z

Female comics riff on marriage, motherhood, etc., in this new unscripted series. TV This Week May 10 - 16: 'Bessie' on HBO 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The score makes extensive use of time-freezing vamps and riffs that flirt with early rock ’n’ roll, as well as recurrent motifs that are guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Drop the needle on the album, and you'll hear horns and a spunky guitar riff. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

As Rizvi walked off, Nakazawa beelined to a Van Gogh, and, speaking through an interpreter, began to riff on the connections between his career and the fine art spread before him throughout the gallery. Daisuke Nakazawa is opening a sushi restaurant in a Trump hotel. And he’s not apologizing. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

And whatever its failings, it has a sort of horrible life to it – the vigour of its central character propelling it constantly forward, its jokes and riffs crackling and sparking. A Bright Moon for Fools by Jasper Gibson – review 2013-07-05T09:01:01Z

At some points solo riffs were passed back and forth between the players like friendly provocations. Review: Roam the Spectrum With Tyshawn Sorey 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

While receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, Murphy riffed on the award, which Cosby won in 2009. Eddie Murphy's First Onstage Joke in 28 Years Was About Bill Cosby 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“I might ask a quick, specific question, or we might just riff for a few hours,” Dotan said. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

A beauty pageant — complete with a bilingual master of ceremony — allowed Gaultier to present his work in multiple vignettes, from riffs on the tuxedo to wildly printed sportswear inspired by bicycle racing jerseys. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator

“This is one of my little riffs,” he said. Adam Gopnik on the Days of Great French Dining 2011-11-02T04:30:11Z

He was as good at listening as he was good at riffing. A last ‘Late Late Show’ from fearlessly funny Craig Ferguson 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

During downtime, Daisy May cracked up the crew with a hypochondriacal riff about an unprintable physical sensation in her bowels. Drama Meets Tedium and a British Sitcom is Born 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

But beet salad with thick, strained brown-butter yogurt, pears and hazelnuts can save a table’s mood and did, an almost sweet-and-sour riff on a dish that usually hits only sweet notes. Restaurants: The National Bar and Dining Rooms 2011-05-11T05:15:26Z

Maybe you watched “Yellow Submarine” as a kid and occasionally find yourself humming the opening riff of “Day Tripper.” You know the Beatles. Here are 16 other important names in the epic ‘Get Back’ series. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The first single, “Be Mine!,” was built on a cello riff that raced like a heartbeat; it narrated the ecstatic tragedy of watching the person you love fall in love with someone else. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Reaching high but not getting nowhere,” he sings on “Getting Nowhere,” his trademark propulsive riffing replaced with understated strumming. The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

On much of Live Skull’s recent material, singer-guitarist Mark C sets off the band’s trademark squall with tidy riffs played on electronic keyboards, which he also employed occasionally at this gig. Review | At Rhizome, Live Skull and Thalia Zedek provide echoes of ’80s post-punk 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

A video that riffs on zombies and urban tedium. Datebook: Zombies of Beijing, Chicano landscapes, fountain sculptures 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Skillful improvisers, they repeatedly built the music into a frenzy, riffing off a mesmerizing cascade of ever-changing rhythmic patterns. Concert of Afghan traditional music at UW beautiful, mesmerizing 2012-04-25T20:12:05Z

Mr. Bowie’s hit “The Jean Genie” pilfered a riff from Muddy Waters’s “I’m a Man.” Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z

Then the deafening blast of a factory whistle breaks in, and the orchestra starts the prologue, a subdued, murmuring minor-mode riff over which the hushed chorus sings: “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.” Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

“I’m looking forward to your space kiss,” Fisher riffs. “Don’t be a slave like I was”: Carrie Fisher advises Daisey Ridley on how to survive “Star Wars” as a feminist 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lesh plays bass as he always has: not as a riffing foundation for a rhythm section, but as a low, ambling, compatible counterpoint to the rest of the band. Music Review: Phil Lesh and Friends at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-04-16T21:17:15Z

This idea is perhaps most explicit in the first work he completed for the show, a triptych of large canvases that riff on the color and illustration style of Delft porcelain. As Far as Luc Tuymans Is Concerned, Nothing Is Original 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

When the TV series Stranger Things wanted to riff on old Stephen King movies, it naturally sent its crew of perky pre-teens to sojourn through role-playing game scenarios. The new Dungeons & Dragons movie should opt for a Stranger Things spin 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Both are modelled on Hendrix riffs, respectively "The Wind Cries Mary" and "If 6 Was 9". The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

No, because he’d been gunning that groovy riff since he was in the Matthews band, at the Count’s suggestion. Johnny Otis, the Greek Godfather of R&B, Dies at 90 2012-01-19T22:30:12Z

But Armatrading quickly forged her own style, juxtaposing layers of crisp riffs and rhythms while wielding a voice that can dive into a hearty contralto or leap upward to radiate fragility and tenderness. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Later, fellow local boys made good Modest Mouse lightened the mood, as their wirey riffs, bouncy rhythms and lushly squalling strings collided in an expansive 90-minute set to close the main stage. Sasquatch! Music Festival 2018 recap: Artists of all ages made beloved fest feel vital 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

The cast members do a fine job of defining their assorted roles with distinguishing tics and punctuation marks, riffing a bit like the amiable jazz musicians with whom they share the stage. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Most surprising, perhaps, is her short riff on imperfection: Beyoncé, poet 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

In their earliest days, Run-DMC, like a lot of hip-hop artists, would rap over the meaty opening riff of Aerosmith’s original “Walk This Way.” Review | How the crossover hit ‘Walk This Way’ became a major pop cultural moment 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Come What May,” he said, grew out of a riff he would always play anytime he tried a new guitar. Pair of songwriting aces: Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle to play in Seattle 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

There are a lot of songs where, say, the bass riff of “Day Tripper” is used, kind of a nod of appreciation. If Zeppelin did steal “Stairway”: “It would be like finding out the Beatles didn’t write ‘Sgt. Pepper’” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, the instrument engages the vocal lines, shifting from moments of folkloric melody to passages of disorienting sonorities, or to stretches that become obsessed with a strange repeated riff. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Some people near me actually sat up and smiled when the piano and woodwinds played riffs and trills that evoked bird song. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z

A mix of "funky riffs, acid jazz melodies and instantly catchy dance floor songs" is what they are about and Fort Knox is the epitome of their unique sound. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

Then he began a riff on the antihero and his phone went out again. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

He also is among musicians interacting with fans online at http://www.thepublicrecord.com, where he invites people to send him guitar riffs, synthesizer tones or other clips, and he'll videotape himself mixing them in on his turntables. Beastie Boys DJ Mix Master Mike to perform in Vail 2010-12-07T22:20:00Z

This soup is a riff on a recipe I got at a Parisian dinner party from a friend’s sister. A beautiful soup to start the holiday meal, with a surprise in every bowl 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But instead of offering tame new songs in familiar styles, Alabama Shakes is pursuing some molten essence of soul: raw confessions, tensile riffs, extreme tempos and volcanic buildups. Review: Alabama Shakes Lifts Soul to a Different Plane 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Every riff and solo played by rock guitarists over the last 60 years contains DNA that can be traced right back to Chuck Berry.” Chuck Berry Honored With 'Music's Nobel Prize' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Its title riffs on the colloquial name for Aframomum melegueta, a gingerlike West African spice heavily exported to the West for its fabled magical powers and homeopathic healing properties. Top-Notch African Design Comes to New York’s R & Company 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

He grabbed his steel guitar, went off into another room and “started just bum bum bum bum, riffing on it, with Mavis’s face as my third eye.” How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It is also smartly augmented by examples of the kind of pre-Columbian ceramics that Velarde riffs on — small effigy urns and spouted vessels with human or animal attributes and geometric patterning. 'Plunder Me, Baby': One artist's wild, defiant stand against the oppression of indigenous people 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lewis was a ferociously swinging blues-rocker who wailed, chattered, churned, stuttered, rippled and roared over the B-3 keys with carefully calibrated riffs. Family reviving the sounds of Seattle rocker Dave Lewis 2013-12-04T19:38:41Z

He riffs on this idea for a bit. Wyatt Cenac takes his ‘Live in Brooklyn,’ and life in Brooklyn, on the road

She riffed on the travails of industry dating: “You do not want to muddy the waters at work.” Octavia Spencer Cracks a Few Hollywood Equations 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Powerful guitar riffs and Vincent's nonchalant and hypnotic voice led the Gallic media to dub Kid Bombardos "The French Strokes," a comparison the singer says is "flattering but simplistic." "Baby rockers" land the right punches on debut album 2011-09-23T11:30:34Z

Hemingway is the primary figure wandering through Greene’s new book, which like the previous one takes a riff on the author as its title: “A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris.” Raise a glass to 1920s Paris and the Americans who imbibed there 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The Beatles' raw working-class candour, mixed with Lennon's riff, went into the nation's teenage bloodstream like a drug. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

Mabe Fratti, from Guatemala, brings maximal emotion to the Minimalist structures she builds from her vocals and the gutsy riffs she plays on cello. 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Trevor Noah did a comic riff on it last week, calling the group the “vegan ISIS.” Perspective | Here’s the best thing the media can do when reporting on ‘antifa’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

They also spoke about their love for the famous sleuths and reminisced about their friendship of more than a decade, riffing off each other effortlessly. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Step Brothers’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

But if I’m on stage, virtually every single night, and I’m riffing about it, and there’s a new thing then that becomes part of the set because that’s sort of what I do. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

In gold jewelry and luxe-looking riffs on traditional businesslike silhouettes like the suit, cardigan and turtleneck sweater, her hair loose and makeup modest, Paltrow has effectively split the difference between demure propriety and power glam. Perspective | At trial, Gwyneth Paltrow is dressing for where she’d rather be 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

A federal court jury in Los Angeles two years ago found Led Zeppelin did not copy the famous riff from the song “Taurus” by the band Spirit. Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Goes Back to Trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Otherwise the book is perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation. ‘Love in the Time of Contagion’ Observes Mutations in Domestic Life 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Their improvisational touch underscored an inside-out mastery of the material; they know these riffs well enough to make it sound as if they’re still learning how to play them. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Yet organs, synthesizers and electric pianos are crucial to the sextet’s sound, as the jaunty synth-pop riff slipped into the opening “In Chains” demonstrated. Review | The War on Drugs: Layers, textures and an up-to-date take on psychedelic rock 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Greenman does know a lot about music; the riffs in the book manage to encompass the blues, gospel, rockabilly, jazz, country, hip-hop, punk, funk, soul and pop. Review: ‘Emotional Rescue’ Ruminates on Life and Music 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

Or chocolate torte with ice cream that riffs on the flavors of an Irish coffee. Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, she riffs on the epithets when they appear: “Dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses”; “The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed.” Review | The first English translation of ‘The Odyssey’ by a woman was worth the wait 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

“To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

A riff on both the “Best American” book series and a satire of one thing we all have in common, terrible emails. Cocktails, crafts, rap, Bob Ross, yoga and cats: Great stocking stuffer books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The new album will be built around guitar riffs from jam sessions and previously shelved songs. ArtsBeat: Aerosmith Plans New Album and Tour 2012-03-29T15:53:54Z

Apatow would lean forward, whisper in her ear and she’d remember another name to thank, before going into a spontaneous riff about that person. Amy Schumer's Trainwreck gets big laughs at hometown premiere 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Other key aspects of the song, like its bass line and signature opening guitar riff, were absent. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Niro could have hammed it up and riffed on Robin Williams performance from The Fisher King. Based on his acting choices of the last decade or so, that is just what I’d have predicted. Being Flynn: Robert De Niro Has Not Given Up After All 2012-03-01T17:31:17Z

Mr. Williams, usually an unstoppable riff machine, mostly laid off the jokes, and the discussion was notably raw and real. Arts & Leisure Preview: The Comic Who Explores Comedy?s Darkest Side 2011-01-06T19:37:09Z

Franz himself, even in his memories, is mostly a passive figure, riffing on nineteenth-century archaeologists or Proust’s debt to “A Thousand and One Nights.” A French Novelist Confronts Orientalism 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Malofiy said Wolfe's work formed the basis for the riff that made the song a hit that is still widely played. Origin of 'Stairway to Heaven' questioned at copyright trial 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Feel free to use this as a template for making your own riffs on air-fried salmon at home. How to use your air fryer to make tender, perfectly-cooked salmon 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

Machado seems to anticipate—and even riff on—our skepticism of her tricks. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Thank you,” he wrote, “for being the groovy, smoke-filled jazz riffing village club I dreamed of as a boy.” Still Life: Comedy Cellar, Where Past and Present Meet 2012-07-31T15:53:48Z

Their rhymes were clever, hilarious and sometimes just plain idiotic – forming a lethal combination with Rubin’s stockpile of rock guitar riffs. Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47 2012-05-04T19:35:00Z

The Aerosmith template – power riffs served up with glam-rock visual flair – was established 40 years ago, and has never been updated. Aerosmith 2010-06-16T21:20:00Z

But bursts of activity — riffs and arpeggios from the marimba, vibraphone and two pianos — keep jostling the bucolic harmonies. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z

Naomi Punk’s “Television Man” captures the woozy thud of the band’s spectacular live show, while Horse Lords’ “Hidden Cities” pushes, pulls and piles up guitar riffs like loose Jenga blocks. The best music of 2014: Young Thug, Aphex Twin, Charli XCX and more

At first the guitars played mellow, alluring music, all slowly strummed, lingering tones and gently lapping riffs. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Within months of creating this lovely riff of a painting, this troubled man would surrender to his old demon, booze, and in a few years he was dead in a drunken car crash. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z

One day, they took a walk to Prospect Park, riffing “and thinking from an emo kind of place,” she said. Oscar-Nominated Songs With Familiar Composers 2014-02-19T22:59:00Z

He settled in behind the lectern and began to riff. Perspective | The Democrats’ roll call showed America’s beauty and diversity. The Republicans’ roll call . . . did not. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

And with its surging chorus and irresistible saxophone riff, album opener “Run Away With Me” is even more euphoric than Jepsen’s breakout hit. Carly Rae Jepsen Brings a Grownup Note to Giddy Pop 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The "I Kissed a Girl" singer's answer was clearly a deadpan joke -- and thankfully a much funnier one than her attempt to riff off Deflategate. Katy Perry channels Marshawn Lynch at her Super Bowl news conference 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

They sit in the car, listening to the radio, both picking at sores, riffing on their lives. With drugs, there are no good choices, only less awful ones 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Thompson’s guitar contains multitudes, the raunchiest riffs morph into spiraling solos that suggest Scottish bagpipes, Eastern sitars or the backward psychedelic effects of “Revolver”-era Beatles. Album review: Richard Thompson, 'Electric' 2013-02-05T05:34:00Z

From the moment the riff from Jumpin' Jack Flash rings out across the darkening field they seem right at home. Rolling Stones steal Glastonbury from other debutantes – review 2013-06-29T23:56:12Z

I regularly riff on gazpacho, making the classic red version as well as green cucumber and yellow tomato varieties, and I relish a subtly sweet melon or berry soup as well. A soup that’s as easy to make as a salad? (It’s not gazpacho.) 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Asked for the best guitar riff in history, she immediately offered up Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” Rock’s saviors? Ladies of Plush rock harder than most anyone 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Is This the Right Place?,” in “Talking at the Boundaries,” included the following riff in its 20-plus pages: David Antin Dies at 84; Poet Created a New Performance Style 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

There are chunky riffs, played with legs apart. Pearl Jam – review 2012-06-21T10:58:21Z

“Ancestral Duckets” is a sly waltz that roams purposefully through chromatic chord changes and sprouts a multitude of Muldrow’s vocals: harmonizing, scatting, riffing, taking over the melody and then playfully sailing above it. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The “American Revolutions” initiative, launched in 2008, was a kind of conceptual riff on the company’s traditional forte: Shakespeare. Oregon’s theater trail to Washington 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The band presents itself just as simply, with Ms. Cooper churning eighth-note riffs against Mr. Cox’s more expressively varied drumming. Music Review: Banter Is Cheery, but Songs Are Not 2011-04-27T21:53:46Z

The song is brilliantly jazzy with a catchy riff strummed on an electric guitar and it sounds like Wainwright is really enjoying the song. Review: Wainwright goes pop with help of Ronson 2012-05-02T20:21:11Z

The book’s title riffs on the president’s former NBC reality show, but Miller said “it works on so many other levels.” The Washington Post to publish book examining Russian interference in 2016 election 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

It starts with a brusque, seemingly straightforward riff, only to have that riff repeatedly sideswiped by tremolo chords. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The medium presents an opportunity to chat with friends and riff on whatever strikes their fancy, for hours and hours. Aack! A Millennial’s Audio Odyssey Through the ‘Cathy’ Comic Strip 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Herbert has a deep affection for jazz, and some of his first public crossovers with the music were vivid mashes of big-band brass riffing with computer sampling and contemporary dance hooks. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Now in their 60s, their menace remains undiminished: Williamson's riffs brought to the group additional notes and an increased brutality; they remain simple, primal and beautiful. Music picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:21:00Z

They created a series of self-conscious, almost witty, riffs on nudes. Encounters : Shannon Plumb, A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen 2013-08-28T23:14:51Z

For them, a verbal image arrives already tinged with musical colour, a chord change or the kick of a riff making the choice of words seem inevitable. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

Rather than riffs on Billings, the only sustained sonic reference to an 18th-century composer in “Hamilton” is to a European, Johann Sebastian Bach. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Unlike most garage bands, who aped the Yardbirds and Them, the Barbarians basically just did their own brand of bashing, which borrowed heavily from Chuck Berry's school of riffing. The best concert film you've never seen 2010-04-11T18:01:00Z

Both are known for strong vocals, harmonies and hard-charging guitar riffs. Heart, Def Leppard rock hard at White River 2011-09-16T20:27:03Z

Closing the season is Young Jean Lee’s riff on “King Lear” that will involve “Sesame Street.” 15 Summer Theater Festivals (and More) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“I hate Picasso,” Ms. Gadsby says in her new comedy special, which includes a riff on that artist, whom she calls a misogynist. What’s on TV Tuesday: James Corden in Britain and ‘Hannah Gadsby: Nanette’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

"A woman has every right to choose — to choose, to choose, to choose," he riffed. Pearl Jam's "Ten" at 30: A raw, dynamic debut that's both sonically and emotionally exquisite 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

Led Zeppelin is a classic-rock colossus whose molten riffs are part of the foundation of heavy metal. When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Longo’s “Men in the Cities” series shows the artist riffing off of archetypal action scenes by first capturing mostly his friends in spontaneous twisting and dancing-posed photographs before shading them in charcoal. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art

Or you can choose quantity over quality, opening up a spigot of gags and riffs and hoping that the good ones will wash away the bad. Review: ‘Get Hard,’ With Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Interpol largely stuck to the familiar -- be it the slicing riffs of "C'Mere" or the fire-alarm rush of "Say Hello to the Angels." FYF Fest 2014: Interpol, Phoenix bring a dash of professionalism 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Many guests seemed to have taken seriously the invitation's suggestion that they riff creatively on evening wear. On the Runway Blog: A Birthday Party at Bergdorf's 2012-10-19T17:32:03Z

It’s a bit sloppier now, with its leading performers riffing on their characters, as one might in the last punch-drunk days of a run. Summertime, and the Revivals in London are Breezy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The second objection we should have to the Christian teen camp is that the youth lingo and guitar riffs conceal messages that could be damaging to young people. Christian teen camps are wicked, innit 2011-08-10T18:14:02Z

His films are often riffs and arguments carried out by other means. | 'Red State': Kevin Smith?s ?Red State? - Review 2011-09-23T04:03:27Z

Louis says that the man liked teenage boys but “he didn’t like me, I felt a little bad”, which seems like his own riff on a familiar joke. Did Louis CK's Saturday Night Live riff on child abuse go too far? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Not the high-energy riff between my mom and me, but the harmony of two easy riders. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

I went off on a tangent and started riffing, and the whole thing turned into a big joke. At Olympic Music Festival, a cellist with a 'thirst' for comedy 2012-08-09T20:27:03Z

Then when it comes to being able to riff with recipes, I am hoping I can get people to think about what a recipe's doing, and think about ingredients in categories. Sohla El-Waylly wants to make you a culinary "expert in your own home" 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

The former art school student sketched, riffed, and whittled a collection of songs — the ones his wife liked — into his fourth album. Q&A: Jeff Ament feels alive again with Pearl Jam’s return 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Many travelers I spoke to jokingly call it the “Amish Las Vegas,” riffing off the cliché that what happens in Pinecraft stays in Pinecraft. Journeys: Pinecraft, Fla., an Amish Snowbird Magnet 2012-04-13T17:31:02Z

This riff on ‘Everyman’ has archness all over it. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

More pointedly, gentrification is among the themes of Wesley Clark, whose large paintings on wooden panels riff on both maps and games. Review | In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Petty, whose vibrant guitar riffs, distinctive vocals and slick song lyrics graced such hits as “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl,” was found unconscious at his home in Malibu on Oct. Tom Petty died due to accidental drug overdose: coroner 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Together they riffed on the likes of George W. Bush and Neil Diamond. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

The Afrobeat sound, which rose to prominence in Nigeria in the 1970s, combined organ riffs with West African drum patterns and brass instruments. Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen dies aged 79 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Filled with euphoria, guitar riffs and the boys' echoing vocals, this was Take That at their peak, and rightly kept them at No 1 for four weeks. The best No 1 records: Take That – Pray 2012-05-31T20:19:00Z

He kept a foot in Washington as Rorschach Theatre staged his 2007 “Tempest” riff, “Rough Magic,” and then television hunted him down. The killer career of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But the style of “The Sopranos” — dramatic and violent but still comedic, with dream sequences and surreal riffs laced throughout the more grounded, realistic proceedings — still resonates. Pandemic TV hero Lorraine Bracco on why ‘The Sopranos’ was a quarantine hit and that house in Sicily she bought for a buck 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

It swims around his voice, dislocated and presageful; the opening synth riff sounds as if it's falling apart as it plays. John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts – review 2013-03-07T15:29:01Z

Chowdhry's breakthrough came last year with a headlining slot on Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week, in which a motley crew of comedians riff on the week's news. Paul Chowdhry: 'I just want to make people laugh' 2012-12-18T19:00:01Z

The final alphabet riffs on text from classic street signs that blend Monotype and sans-serif accents. Sweden Sans: National Font of the Swedes 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Jazzy riffs and percussive string techniques add an element of unsettled agitation and worry. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

But these blissful moments are no more spiritual that the gnarly stretches in which the organ growls in aggressively dissonant chords or crazed bursts of runs and riffs. Music Review: Jon Gillock Plays Messiaen - Review 2011-11-16T22:40:23Z

They had a knack for finding the killer riffs secreted within obscure songs from the past and, through deft recontextualization and processing, unleashing their incandescent potential. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z

Yes, indeed, and served straight up, with each sneering lyric and snarling riff in place. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z

“Kennedy Center,” he sang, riffing off the Tribe song “The Space Program.” Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Her series riffs on the idea that nature becomes a protagonist when human populations are displaced by war. Review | It’s time we looked at Iran through the same lens as its best photographers 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The set used the new material as a collection of expandable riffs developed through cool, reverb-soaked surf-rock phrases, power chords, scrabbling staccato and interludes of anything goes. Review: Yonatan Gat Shreds Protocol in a Rampant Concert 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Lawyers have delivered closing arguments in the trial of a Los Angeles copyright lawsuit that claims Led Zeppelin's guitarist and singer stole a riff from the band Spirit for their 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven." The Latest: Jury to get 'Stairway to Heaven' suit 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rose studied those traditions, absorbing what he called “the very precise language of drums,” in travels throughout Senegal and expanded the language, creating numerous riffs of his own. Doudou N’diaye Rose, Senegalese Drummer and ‘Human Treasure,’ Dies at 85 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

A claustrophobic riff on chess, Into the Breach asks you to nudge and shunt three robots around an eight-by-eight grid, taking turns to do battle with giant earthworms called Vek. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He wanted to keep improvising, to keep riffing — on the Old Masters, on his dreams, on the mysterious operations of shape and color. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Plus, there were clarinet riffs and 1970s funk beats. Calle 13 on hip-hop swag, Puerto Rico's status and Julian Assange 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Even so, there's no doubting the thrill as the album opens, when, after a brief burst of wah-wah pedal, Slash slips into a riff that corkscrews as tightly as his hair. Slash: Apocalyptic Love – review 2012-06-14T20:15:01Z

If it's the spirit of rock'n'roll you're after, let's celebrate Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, a band for whom riffs are the stock in trade. Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z

For the stunning confection, Marino chose a glamorous palette of gold, black, and rosy pink, with bespoke upholstery that riffs on classic Chanel tweeds. Revamped by Peter Marino, a Chanel Boutique Reopens in Costa Mesa, California 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

His scores pulsed as relentlessly as the bass in a rock band, his noisy riffs repeated themselves to the point of madness. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z

But he may well be best remembered for composing what has become the defining riff of hard rock, the repeating ten note melodic phrase that fortifies “Sunshine Of Your Love.” Jack Bruce: The Man Who Turned on the “Sunshine” Turns 70 2013-05-14T18:46:56Z

Sometimes these are directed away from himself: I loved his riff on Judgment Day, and the pleasure he'll take in seeing "Christians shooting up into the sky". Marc Maron 2010-08-03T21:00:00Z

I always kind of liked the band and enjoyed the infectious riff of their biggest single, “Seventeen.” Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called Mr. Gere’s performance in this frothy Robert Altman riff on the book of Job “relaxed and generous, a show of beleaguered, sincere chivalry.” What’s on TV Sunday 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

It retains the opera’s music — even its aria-and-recitative format — but freely riffs on Da Ponte’s libretto in English and Spanish, with slang-filled lyrics that move the action to a Beverly Hills mansion today. Music Review: Call It ‘The Green Card of Figaro,’ With Thanks to Mozart 2013-06-16T21:49:33Z

Eschewing his usual pop culture punning — McDonald’s, paper dolls, TV game shows — his riff was on Picasso: the artist’s muses, his most famous paintings, his passion for bullfighting. ‘Is It Theater or Is It Real?’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Some 100 people have spent about $13 apiece to eat, drink and listen to comics riffing about whatever crosses their minds, which is often the latest news about the war with Russia. Is There Anything Funny About the War in Ukraine? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

She provides a path for that, too, with riffs on well-known recipes like the Ghana-fied Caesar salad and a goat ragu. The Best Cookbooks of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

But mostly he would riff with his young protégé, who always seemed as if he couldn’t believe he was sitting there with Groucho Marx. The One About When Groucho Marx and Dick Cavett Became Great Friends 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

When she’s ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

After the final chorus the horns cycle through a sequence containing the verse riff, the chorus hook and a short passage of long notes adapted from the chorus melody. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Happily, the risk has yielded the reward of a fresh, hip 90-minute riff that resonates as a starkly surreal dirge and a life-affirming blues. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

Bond, a seasoned stage personality, is at ease riffing off the cuff and ribbing an insider crowd — but feels rather far away peering over the nine-piece orchestra, with a hand shielding the glare. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

A smart riff on a signature look — or a style in need of fresh thinking? Fashion Review: Flowers and Power 2013-06-28T17:58:00Z

The show’s anecdotal structure — its tendency to construct scenes as self-contained, jazzlike riffs — might not be for everyone, but those scenes are frequently gems in their own right. ‘Better Call Saul’ Starts Its Fourth Season, Still Waiting for Saul 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Much like Radiolab and This American Life, each show takes a theme and riffs on it. Catch-up TV Guide: From Silk to Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast 2012-06-08T23:05:13Z

Each dish — some of which are riffs on old favorites — is highly adaptable, and all keep perishables in mind. Five Adaptable Recipes, All From Your Pantry 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The mariachi musical idiom is run through with supple, animated rhythmic riffs. Review: A Mariachi Opera Addresses Roiling Issues of Immigration 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

In reality, “I’m the alpha and omega of this business,” Mr. Quinn, a guild member, riffed. The Carpetbagger: Writers Guild Crowns ‘Her’ and ‘Captain Phillips’ 2014-02-02T18:48:13Z

The band's metal credentials remain undeniable, however, as the strident riffs that underpin show-starter The Parting and the restless physicality of the closing Dead Letters noisily demonstrate. Katatonia: Dead End Kings – review 2012-08-23T20:15:00Z

It riffs on the legacy of Alexander Girard, the industrial and textile designer who collaborated with Eero Saarinen on Miller House and once proposed a color scheme for all the Victorian storefronts on Washington Street. Columbus, Ind., Renews Its Big Design Legacy 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

But faith isn’t a prerequisite to appreciate this gorgeous compendium with mini Bundt cakes that riff on New York black-and-white cookies, a fail-safe challah loaf and even a Moroccan tagine. 10 books to read in December 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Some groups riff on current events, but not as many as you would think. SketchFest: Comedy without borders 2011-01-10T06:00:00Z

Murphy riffs on before he imagines his reaction. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

The music is fitful and dense, with militaristic brass flourishes and driving dotted-note rhythmic riffs. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z

But it suits Bennett, who prefers to riff rather than reveal. In Alan Bennett’s Diaries, Life’s Pleasures Alongside Civic Outrage 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The suit claims the riff was lifted from Spirit's song "Taurus." The Latest: Testimony begins in Led Zeppelin 'Stairway' suit 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Lexington Co-op has taken the popular social media riff “I love you more than Kanye loves Kanye” and placed it on flourless cakes and chocolate chip cookies, The Buffalo News reports. Who loves Kanye West more than Kanye? Drake or New York bakers? 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Afterward, there was an encore, a little piece built from electro-rocklike riffs. Review: Yuja Wang and the London Symphony Get Jazzy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

One answer is offered by Tabor Robak’s found-object sculpture, which riffs on those arcade games in which players use a mechanical claw in an attempt to retrieve such inexpensive treasures as stuffed animals. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ryman is probably known best for his darkly beautiful 1992 novel, “Was,” which is both riff and meditation on “The Wizard of Oz.” Books of The Times: Caitl?n R. Kiernan, Geoff Ryman and Tim Powers Tales - Review 2011-10-23T21:37:18Z

A viral meme was born -- and with it, the inevitable fantastic riffs. What's behind the "worst music video ever"? 2011-03-14T15:15:00Z

He didn’t have to; Robinson, whom he met at a conference, was on board the minute Quijada shared the idea; they began riffing on ideas the next day, including one that became the first song. Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

And, once you’ve learned a few simple rules, the possibilities are vast and easy to riff on. The Key to Easy Summer Baking Is in the Freezer Aisle 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

It's a long list, fueling many cranky riffs on TV's "The Daily Show" and other programs and a stand-up career so successful he lives half the time on a tour bus. Lewis Black talks pollen, politics and his play at ACT Theatre 2012-06-07T20:49:04Z

With the Peas' Fergie doing her best Axl Rose impression, right down to a snaky hip dance, the guitarist with the curls, shades and stove pipe hat played his signature "Sweet Child O' Mine" riff. Black Eyed Peas lead halftime cheers at Super Bowl 2011-02-07T15:39:39Z

And I enjoyed Elliot’s satirical riff on Walter’s career in Hollywood, as the director of a film franchise titled “Truck Stop.” Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

They eat, drink and fuss with their hair as they groove to guitar riffs and guttural vocals. Eccentric French 'Dragons' exhibits commendable humility 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Porter explicitly riffs on Ted Hughes’s famous 1970 collection, “Crow”: The father is a scholar who is writing about the poet. Will ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Take Flight on the Stage? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

It begins with strong, saturated chords before moving on to fragmented versions — some unison, some not — of syncopated soul riffs that are like abstractions of the song. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z

But as the band socked its riffs and Eddie Van Halen filigreed them with virtuoso guitar, the songs were still testimonials to hyperactive teenage hormones and musicians who remember them. Music Review: Van Halen Plays Mini-Gig at Cafe Wha? - Review 2012-01-06T12:21:25Z

“TV, you’ve got what I need,” he sang, riffing on the song “Just a Friend” by Biz Markie, who died this past July. The best and worst noments of the 2021 Emmys 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

It is something to do with the circuitous nature of Baldwin’s sentences, the way he riffs and waffles and meanders at will. Alec Baldwin: 'You naughty English could fold sex into dentistry' 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Together they worked up the riff of Are You Receiving and the founding duo were won over. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z

As Rentheads will know, this number riffs on a famous lyric from “Seasons of Love,” the runaway anthem from “Rent” and now from “Without You.” ‘Without You’ Review: Anthony Rapp’s Seasons of Love, and Loss 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

A song like “four ethers”—which has him riffing over a Berlioz sample—came easily to him. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In a town reputed to be heavy on riffs and light on songs, Cobain’s melodies were strong, his guitar lines artful and his agony real. Remembering Kurt Cobain and Nirvana: the band that defined Seattle 2014-03-30T02:01:27Z

So I started riffing on this idea of ‘rules for a knight.’ Ethan Hawke Explains His Thing for Knights 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Both “Lay My Head Down” and the stop-time stomp “Shame” used the greatest parts of Led Zeppelin: not just the riffs and grooves, but also the sense of space. Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z

Hall launched the two-hour celebration by describing the breadth of Murphy’s comedic gifts: his stand-up, his characters, his fearless riffs on society. Eddie Murphy’s first joke onstage in 28 years: It’s about Bill Cosby 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

When a few riffs of dialogue, midway through the film, speak of a character’s fate in Theresienstadt, one wants to tell the script to get that word out of its mouth. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order and the Cure often dug into one chord with circling, inexorable riffs, building tension within stasis; the singers would offer steady chants or get themselves worked up. Warpaint Plays Celebrate Brooklyn in Park Slope 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Two songs later, the wah-wah guitar of “Lucia” quickly turned into a riff on the Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower” with Taylor adding the chorus to end the set. Hiss Golden Messenger shares his anxieties and shows his gratitude 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Instead of laying down plodding rock-steady lines, his riffs gad about with squirrelly industry, something that hasn't impressed his more single-minded collaborators. Thundercat finds a place for his bass 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z

But “R&J&Z,” a gory riff on the tragedy by the writer-performer Melody Bates at the New Ohio Theater, is a little more homicidal. Review: ‘R&J&Z’ Is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the Zombie Age 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

But even when the Elements are sternly chanting, the orchestra is abuzz with restless instruments and fidgety riffs. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

You glimpse it in the chugging riff of A Baby Got Back on Its Feet and in the needling notes of Low Black Clouds, but only PKR maintains the tension. House of Love: She Paints Words in Red – review 2013-03-21T22:00:02Z

The day before I visited, he and the Edge had adapted a bass line from a song by Haim into a stomping, start-stop guitar riff, and Bono had immediately roughed out some lyrics. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Both guitars start a four-bar riff, the drums tumble in and the recording crunches into the red. New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

“When you could have any newspaper in America riffing in headlines on ‘sex, lies, and videotape’ or ‘Slacker,’ and ‘Do the Right Thing,’ you could feel how those filmmakers are penetrating the culture. A Brief History of American Independent Film: ‘Split Screen’ on FilmStruck 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In 2010, he published “Reality Hunger,” which interspersed his riffs about the fragmentation of modern society and our desire to find real life in art with unattributed quotes taken from other writers and thinkers. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is a crunchy and thrifty riff on James Beard’s famous onion sandwiches. Five 15-minute recipes that add up to a four-star New Year’s Eve 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

One of the most striking pieces in that exhibit was a riff on the Barack Obama "Hope" poster - showing Putin's face and the caption "Hopeless." Russia's artists enter political fray in elections 2012-03-01T11:36:13Z

Strikingly, at Pixar there is also no room for the glut of modern references, the riffs on celebrity and brands, that have dominated its competitors' animated films. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z

They included these riffs on the soundtrack for the film and, as a kid, I listened to them on repeat. Why Robin Williams's true genius lay in his weird and wonderful comedy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

But, even beyond Simone’s lyrics, her integrative technique itself—her use of gospel piano, blues melisma, classical riffs—refutes myths of black deprivation. Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, United in Soul 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the band's version of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys," studded with jazzy Tijuana Brass-style trumpets and accordion riffs. Mexrrissey's Spanish blast of Morrissey rocks an L.A. crowd 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

They tore into the Muddy Waters song “Mannish Boy” with a succession of pummeling, wriggling riffs and stop-time interludes that had the band hanging on every Hendrix impulse. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

As serious as the book is, it’s also full of hysterical riffs by Hart. Exclusive (and serious!) Kevin Hart video about his audiobook, 'I Can't Make This Up' 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

My response is: five in Poland and maybe one in Belarus,” he said, riffing on a famous remark by Marcel Duchamp. A Polish Museum Turns to the Right, and Artists Turn Away 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Two years later, the big comic-book-based hit wasn’t a downbeat meditation on grief and the burdens of unchecked power, but “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a gleefully irreverent riff on superhero tropes. ‘Batman v Superman’ broke records at the box office. But that doesn’t justify its existence. 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

At times, repetitive riffs from Beethoven are turned into musical battering rams. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

About 15 minutes into his speech Thursday evening, Donald Trump riffed on one of his favorite topics: American “inner cities” and how they are utter hellholes. Fear and gloating in Cincinnati 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

There's a wonderful moment when McClorey holds a note, stares at the crowd as if in utter shock, returns to the note and then looks up again as he crashes into a riff. The Strypes – review 2013-02-12T17:38:50Z

Despite lacking much variation, Rock's songs—typically driven by beefy riffs, catchy hooks, hip-hop rhymes and shouted choruses—were tailor-made for the arena setting. Kid Rock's beefy, patriotic riffs fill United Center 2011-02-27T16:32:00Z

The stringless orchestra traded riffs with Serkin in music that might at first be called random, but in fact is faithful to a superhuman musical intelligence. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

Scheherazade will spin the last of her stories when Target Margin’s riff on the 1,001 tales plays its final Arabian night. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The two percussion players responded with rhythmic riffs, chimes and sustained eerie tones. Review: A Mostly Mozart Milestone, and an Immersive Lineup 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

So then we came up with a guitar riff and I sang it in a higher key, and I did the whole thing myself, without the answering vocals from the backing singers. What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But riffing on your own life is one thing. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and her anti-apology 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Everyone will enjoy this homemade riff on a classic Chinese appetizer. Scallions and green onions aren’t the same . . . or are they? 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Tool fans don’t seek out the live shows wanting charisma or charm; they expect their idols to deliver the heaviest riffs to hit rock radio in the 1990s and present them creepily. Review | It’s hard to see the members of Tool when the band plays live, but it sure is thrilling to hear them 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“We kind of riff on their vibe, too.” Buying the Shirt Off Justin Bieber’s Back 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a darkly danceable set evoking the Psychedelic Furs and the melancholic post-punk of early Cure, riding jangly riffs and irresistible elastic rhythms. 6 new albums from Seattle artists you need to hear 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The next week, also on Facebook Live, Victoria Noquez — math professor by day, conjurer by night — performed sociable card tricks and Sudoku variations, with occasional riffs on prime number theory. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

With Gina Milo belting, chirping, scating, riffing and otherwise warbling her head off as The Lady of the Lake, the laughs flood out all night. Drury Lane masters the Pythonesque with knockout 'Spamalot' 2011-01-07T20:18:58Z

As Marty, I was riffing about the types of meat I would grill. The Doctor Is in Too Deep: Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd on ‘The Shrink Next Door’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Related: Did Louis CK's Saturday Night Live riff on child abuse go too far? Saturday Night Live: Trump baiting and Miley hosting – can the show pull it off? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Check out these recent, new and upcoming books, which offer adventure stories, personal recollections, a riff on a famous novel and more. Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

I would sit in my room and practice and go over riffs and stuff, and I would do that until three or four in the morning. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

Take "The Charms of Wikipedia," which riffs on his delight with that phenomenon and its messy, yeasty potential to level the playing field of global knowledge. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z

One day in 1995 while riffing in the character of a snobby French toy store owner, Robin made me laugh so hard and so long that I cried. Nathan Lane on Robin Williams: "[He] Made Me Laugh So Hard and So Long That I Cried" 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Jack Cigarette,” with the filmmaker Jack Smith and the actress Beverly Grant smoking and staring down the camera, had an upbeat looped rock riff, with Mr. Rev declaiming love lyrics. ‘Exposed,’ Musical Accompaniment to Warhol Silents at BAM 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

The piano music activates the orchestra, which takes off in episodes of lush strings, quizzical bursts of winds and brass and fidgety rhythmic riffs. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her recent pieces do not break new ground so much as they riff off of those developments, providing variation and elaboration on the same themes and ideas. Take another look: The alternate world of 'Barbara Kasten: Stages' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Foo Fighters were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year, recognized for their “rock authenticity with infectious hooks, in-your-face guitar riffs, monster drums and boundless energy.” Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters’ Drummer, Dies at 50 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

“APOCALYPSE NOW” Lee nods to “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam-set riff on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” in a number of ways. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Secret Society's rhythm section swing in a throroughly contemporary way: they can play with the metronomic transparency of the Necks or deliver Argue's heaviest riffs with the visceral efficiency of Led Zeppelin. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society; London Sinfonieta/Matthew Herbert 2010-11-21T22:45:00Z

But the melodic bits and rhythmic riffs are strangely, sometimes obsessively repeated. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z

One hears a broad swath of jazz history in her playing: boogie-woogie, swing, big-band riffs, subtle chromaticism in her left-hand chords when the band settles into a more modern trio format. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The music goes through passages of jittery riffs, burnished string chords, elegiac quietude and eruptive restlessness — complete with actual shouts and claps from the players. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Boys Noize — so austere that their video display used only red, black and white — dispensed buzzing, distorted riffs over dry drumbeats, as the chords that topped them jabbed with happy aggression. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z

Now Rachel Kneebone, a British artist, has been invited by the Brooklyn Museum to riff on Rodin. Art Review: Works by Rachel Kneebone at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-04-05T22:06:34Z

This was one of those rare gigs where the audience even bellowed out the bass lines and guitar riffs. The Stone Roses live at Warrington Parr Hall – review 2012-05-24T09:45:09Z

An early riff in the show centered on the apocryphal story of a pizza chain that had apparently come under fire for arranging pepperoni slices in the shape of a swastika. Aziz Ansari’s New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

You might think 20 years of familiarity would be inoculation enough against the widescreen wiles of Wicked Game, but there's a tangible pressure drop when its languid riff echoes round the theatre. Chris Isaak – review 2012-10-09T16:01:21Z

Koenig, who does a lot of musical impressions, said his set will include a Bruce Springsteen riff and an impression of an old man in the future doing the hits of his lifetime. Is Newtown ready to laugh? Comedy benefit hopes so 2013-05-28T14:30:10Z

He tuned the guitar before playing a dirty little riff. Guy Pearce Knows How to Riff 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Easton: The inspiration for my rockabilly riff and solo was the guitar lick from the Beatles’s “I Will.” The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

This “mix but don’t match” was a riff on a familiar theme, but the Viktor & Rolf design duo’s use of texture and shape lived up to the name of this “Monsieur” line. Special Report: Fashion: Mad Men! Romancing the Suit 2011-01-21T18:31:16Z

Mr. Lennon had produced a record by Harry Nilsson and he asked Mr. Lawrence to do a promotional riff for the record. Eddie Lawrence, Comedian, Actor and Pitchman, Is Dead at 95 2014-03-31T00:10:54Z

At its peak, 60 million people watched Mr. Williams riff on his own rhythms while other television sitcoms still worked on a steady metronome of punch line —beat —capper. On TV, a Super-Sized Performer Breaking Out of a Small Box 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a brief verse riffing on the various performances many homeless people must undertake in order to render themselves visible to passers-by. Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

It's not always easy being a Queen, and Damon Albarn and pals' ghostly The Good, the Bad and the Queen laments the "blessed routine" that is the scourge of both riff raff and royalty. Readers recommend: songs about queens 2012-06-07T15:28:41Z

This show, indeed his whole career, is one beautiful long riff on extreme eating and its results. Comedy gold: John Pinette's I Say Nay Nay 2012-12-28T11:13:32Z

The display is a poignant riff on the custom of using flowers to mourn the dead, further charged by the knowledge that the flowers are already in the process of dying. Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Let other designers riff on the English countryside. | Thakoon Wins! 2011-02-15T01:39:50Z

She told some good jokes, but the best parts of this roughly 10-minute set were the riffing and the swagger that make live stand-up the most exciting art in the city. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The band still works with a heat-blasted byproduct of garage rock, hard rock and boogie, with riffs both stark and heavy gauge. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the Dead Weather, Michael Bolton, Zs 2010-05-09T21:44:00Z

We know their riffs, the sonic skills they brought us both on records and on stage. “Hired Gun” film honors the rock gods you never heard of 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

From the coaxing riff of the opening Phase Dance, through a fast account of the romantically wistful James, and on to the timeless synthed-harmonica melody of Are You Going With Me?, Pat Metheny Group 2010-07-14T21:00:00Z

Their stories develop as if in a hothouse, from a compost of recurring riffs and seemingly unrelated microincidents. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Finding a voice as a writer often involves much throat clearing — false starts, rough drafts, crazy riffs and paralyzing stretches of analysis. Review: Waiting to Connect in Levittown in ‘The Babylon Line’ 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Several small wall pieces resemble decrepit riffs on Robert Ryman and Agnes Martin, although one titled “Unshaven Leg,” which affixes shards of mirror and raw canvas to a small board, is more distinctive. Art In Review: MICHAEL MAHALCHICK: ?It? 2012-04-12T19:53:50Z

Williams Columbus Circle also had Huntington Hartford’s art museum, which riffed on the Baker’s Tomb in Rome. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“God knows, we were a dappled bunch that day,” Schulz writes of their storm-punctuated nuptials, riffing on Gerard Manley Hopkins. ‘Lost & Found’ Ponders Profound Grief Alongside Newfound Love 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Many songs follow the same pattern, his deep, relaxed voice matched by sturdy riffs and a swirl of overdubbed instrumental work. Hassan Erraji: Awal Mara 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z

The first dessert I riffed on was a moist olive oil cake, spiking it with cocoa to make it fudgy and intense. Three Hanukkah Desserts That Skip the Fryer 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Sonya Clark, whose usual materials include thread, combs and human hair, also riffs on mid-20th-century art, with pieces based on Josef Albers’s color studies. Galleries: ‘Anything Sacred,’ ‘Float,’ ‘Friends with Benefits,’ ‘Between Us’

In this account, it was a mercurial fantasy, rich with fluttering cello bursts, alternately stentorian and whispered sung passages, skittish piano flights, and sliding riffs for electric guitar. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The music is kaleidoscopic, deploying funk, electronics, hip-hop beats, jazz, chamber-music arrangements and the African fiddle riffs that inspired Sudan Archives’ name, barely keeping up with her ambitions. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Impastor’s” cleverest lines and riffs on religiosity are somewhat overwhelmed when the show gives in to temptation and becomes a zany caper. ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’: A sunnier ‘Louie’ in the form of a stale Hot Pocket 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

I started riffing about the road to Santiago and serendipity, how when you slow down one’s pace to that of an ox then ... Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z

The song kicked in and the crowd went nuts, dancing, reveling in the dirty little old-style riff at the end. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Lynch agrees but can’t resist a riff: “I always say that when I do theater, I live like a monk.” Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch bond backstage at ‘Funny Girl’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

His first Chekhov adaptation, the 2013 riff on “The Seagull” at Woolly Mammoth that he titled “Stupid F---ing Bird,” is being produced across the country. After firing and controversy, Roth and Theater J moving on 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Then the replies were people riffing off of each other,” Ms. Lage said. How Nicknames for the Pandemic Became a Popular Online Trend 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The two-part album series “House of Gold and Bones,” each half of which was accompanied by a related comic book, burns through accelerated riffs and knee-deep sludge in a fable of lost adolescence. Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:19:54Z

In his first post, Stew presented 12 riffs on the food, breezes and sounds of Kenya. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z

The music was an alluring blend of tart, slightly Asian-sounding harmonies, pummeling percussion, volleys of dancing marimba riffs, frenetic bursts of patter, and echoes of Americana. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories,’ at Zankel Hall 2014-04-23T21:25:46Z

The upcoming season includes riffs on escape rooms and intrusive NPR podcasting. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jarrett used a left-hand riff to carry a lean, cagey variant of the blues, and he finished the first set with resonant major chords and a stately potential movie theme. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z

But the show also contained a good number of serious or bitingly satirical pieces that riffed on issues lifted from the news and national conversation. Chicago’s Neo-Futurists courses with punk rock energy in ‘Too Much Light’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

A sinuous, psychedelic guitar riff snakes around the tale of another teen in dire circumstances, this time the desert soldier in “I’d Rather be High.” Album review: David Bowie, 'The Next Day' 2013-03-07T17:26:00Z

Yet sometimes Reiss overindulges his penchant for literary analysis, simply using sleep as an excuse to riff on authors he loves. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Metz, a three-man band from Canada, steamrollered through the festival, blasting brawny punk and metal guitar riffs that generated the festival’s most enthusiastic buzz. Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z

She might begin a piece by braiding Pakistani classical vocals around a riff that’s reminiscent of American minimalism. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

There is also a Scotch-based old fashioned and manhattan, for a different riff on tradition. Bottled Cocktails, Ready to Pour, From William Grant & Sons 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Certain riffs are seared into our collective music memory, and so this week's playlist – a distillation of the deluge that followed our call for te-riff-ic songs inevitably contains some familiar tracks. Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z

When the sisters spoke during the interview, they often looked at each other, riffing off the other’s sentences while identifying where their experiences connect and contrast. Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer as Sisters With a Painful Bond 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Now he has ventured into still newer territory with abstractly shaped aluminum-panel sculptures — embedded with video screens depicting mouths and eyes — that riff on facial-recognition technology. Tony Oursler Maps the Interior Life of the Face 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

There is so much carelessness in the history of this band, but it is very careful with its riffs. Eyehategod Maintains Hopelessness and Rage in Lyrics 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

And Wednesday night, Steel Burkhardt started riffing on the Windy City and flatulence in the first few minutes, making one wonder why a guy in the East Village seemed to be in Chicago. 'Hair' stays true to form at Oriental 2011-03-10T17:45:10Z

Just as important were the explosive riff supplied by James Burton, one of rock’s first superstar guitarists, and the gong of a cowbell at the song’s beginning. Dale Hawkins, Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ?Susie Q? 2010-02-18T07:08:00Z

The dancing piano part deftly showed the similarity between spiky pointillist writing and be-bop riffs. Music Review: ?Launching the Percussion Revolution? at Juilliard 2012-02-01T00:03:35Z

“Fat Ham,” a comedic and contemporary riff on “Hamlet” set in a backyard in the American South, will transfer to Broadway next spring, one year after winning the Pulitzer Prize in drama. ‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

This it does by breaking out the gags, the stunts and the cheekily self-aware riffs like there's absolutely no tomorrow. 22 Jump Street review – supremely watchable silliness 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The alternately lively and plangent “Alcyone” suite was also a revelation, a kind of riff on the style of earlier Lully operas. Music Review: ‘Alcyone’ Emerges From a Tafelmusik Grab Bag 2014-03-19T19:54:02Z

The suit claims “Sorry” uses a vocal riff from her song “Ring the Bell.” Justin Bieber, Skrillex sued for copyright infringement 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

When you first start out in the kitchen, it's easier to riff in cooking than baking. 75 simple and cheap ways to improve your cooking this year 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

They were about the song, whereas the Rolling Stones are about the feel of the riffs. Bee Gees 'on a par with Beatles' 2012-05-21T15:36:29Z

Then came “Gloria,” with yet another iconic rock guitar riff and a chorus that had the whole crowd smiling and shouting along. Review | No bells and whistles, no biggest hits, but U2 is still one of the best big rock bands in the world 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

More than 1.6 million tuned in to watch HBO’s resident firebrand riff on the pope, health care and, what else, Republicans — perfect material for this partisan town. They played here 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Smoothies are so perfect for riffing and transforming. The most common smoothie problems (and how to solve them) 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

But more often “The Dogs of Detroit” proves a shallow riff on an isolated theme. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

A sardonic riff on the difference between postwar and prewar ideas is matched by an angry discussion on the gap between constitutionally guaranteed rights and brutal realities. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Then he played the song’s snaky guitar riff and the drums continued their relentless roll. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z

Perhaps one last thing I might mention is that Molloy’s suspense story riffs explicitly on Stephen King’s “Misery.” Review | ‘Gone Girl’ is far from gone: The blockbuster thriller continues to infect the genre 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The sinewy riff suited Mr. Richards, though Mr. Jagger fudged some of the lyrics. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

In her riff on “Macbeth,” McIntosh dispenses with plot points, instead evoking similar themes — abuse of power and the price of ambition. How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In The Hateful Eight, the word is most often folded into a kind of stylized riffing, potentially offensive if that sort of thing troubles you and nearly invisible—and thus ineffectual—if it doesn’t. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The ad copy is a riff on the brand’s “Body” lingerie line, but since the slogan hovers above the supermodels’ bodies, people say it sends the wrong message. Thousands of People Want Victoria's Secret to Apologize for 'Perfect Body' Ad 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Their runs and riffs propelled the soloists to a peak where violin and cello traded emphatic statements before agreeing on a joyous ending. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a chatty romantic comedy in the modern mode — rude, nude and crude — with some funny, writerly riffs on relationships and how to avoid them. ‘That Awkward Moment’: So, this rom-com tries too hard 2014-01-30T20:31:47Z

The painting 90 Elements, from 2007, similarly riffs on one of the most fundamental systems of classification. Artist of the week 106: Thomas Scheibitz 2010-09-22T15:47:00Z

Behind the microphone, however, Mr. Callahan’s thick, peaty baritone — accompanied by Matt Kinsey’s clean guitar riffs and Neal Morgan’s precise drumbeats — needs no visual embellishment. Movie Review: ‘Apocalypse’ Focuses on the Singer Bill Callahan 2014-05-01T22:41:54Z

One of them riffs wittily on the associations between woman and vessel, vessel and body. Female sculptors, full of humor and verve, prove to be way more than 'All Right' 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Das Racist started as something of a lark, two former college acquaintances riffing on not fitting in. Das Racist: An ongoing experiment in having serious fun 2011-10-13T20:23:00Z

But audiences used to seeing Mr. Trump ad-lib on the campaign trail — riffing on protesters, ranting at mosquitoes — saw a much more on-message candidate, sticking tightly to his script. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Though these musical clouds may seem motionless on the surface, they are built from teeming matrices of overlapping riffs and figures. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

And the concert was also to include Sebastian Currier’s new “Ghost Trio,” which riffs on themes of influence and musical forebears. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

At Memorial Stadium, New York band Lewis Del Mar projected a dark, heavy sound anchored by staccato guitar riffs and booming bass, as lead singer Danny Miller drawled impassioned, throaty vocals. Weather’s mixed, but Bumbershoot crowds don’t seem to mind 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

They were written with profound concision: a handful of chords, a folky melody, a telegram’s worth of lyrics and perhaps an unfancy guitar riff. Music Review: Take a Look at His Life: They Sound a Lot Like Him (Well, Sometimes) 2011-02-11T22:46:52Z

Another gag was singing "They've Leaked Online" about the recent celebrity nude photo hacking riffing on Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves win early at CMA Awards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

But at the same time, I couldn’t help but think Schumer was riffing on one very specific duo: David Letterman and Blake Lively. Amy Schumer skewers David Letterman’s obsession with the “chick who can hang” 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

One riff of White's could reasonably be called one of the most widely celebrated. In first solo album, Jack White taps a blue vein 2012-05-03T14:01:11Z

They could feel every note, every riff, every ripple. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z

This includes freestanding assemblages and wall sculptures, both figurative and abstract, that combine natural and discarded elements to riff on classical architecture, the nature of portraiture and colonization. Datebook: Jimmie Durham's long-awaited U.S. retrospective, masculine and feminine and the nature of translation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

"Saturday Night Live" wasted no time in riffing on Trump's indictment, tackling the subject in the show's April Fools' Day cold open. "Saturday Night Live" riffs on Trump's indictment in cold open 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Every week, on cable and the networks, YouTube and Twitter, boundaries are breached, categories scrambled and stereotypes shattered as hot-button topics are transformed into grist for fresh riffs, gags and flights of goofiness. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Instead of a grand finale, the chords fall away, leaving little more than a pulsing riff and what might as well be electronic crickets: remnants of a subverted song. Playlist: The Grammy Awards Before the Grammys 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

This idea of the power of the collective unconsciousness gets greater play in the current volume, which also riffs on the origins of the comic book industry and its role as maker of new myths. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers and the Return of 'The Unwritten' 2012-01-13T18:40:28Z

With that classic guitar riff and scream-along chorus, "You Shook Me All Night Long" was an undeniably powerful celebration of a memorable escapade.  Coachella 2015: AC/DC delivers dirty deeds in desert set 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Rum and honey take center stage in one of our favorite French 75 riffs. 19 Prosecco cocktails for when you need a lil’ bubbly 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

What is so enthralling about this novel is its syncopated riff of empathy as the perspective jumps around these participants — some peaceful, some violent, some determined, some incredulous. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

They are some of the most famous words in all of English literature, and a riff on them also opens “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” Dev Patel Was Not a Dickens Fan. (Don’t Tell Armando Iannucci.) 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Each issue boasts more than 100 recipes, 50 of which are short riffs on a single dish; this month it’s pesto, including Thai Peanut and Sesame-Seaweed. Ground beef, yes; sumac, no. This editor knows what food magazine readers want. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The piano accompaniments are often thick with cascading arpeggios and rippling repeated-chord riffs. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z

Minnelli riffed repeatedly on her age, and repeated with relish the time someone teased her for her inability to keep a man. Liza Minnelli – review 2013-03-01T23:38:39Z

But this impulse now extends to new plays, too — “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” Zoom installments of the Apple Family Plays, the way that “Pass Over” riffs on “Waiting for Godot.” ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Trust Exercise” thus riffs on the pins-and-needles feeling a reader of fiction sometimes develops: the sense that the created world is realer than you are. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

With “Paperback Writer” on the A-side — an unlikely pop premise, a surging riff, a profusion of vocal harmonies — the single affirmed the Beatles’ mastery while forecasting change. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allman’s rolling piano riff is part gospel, part Mardi Gras mambo, and his lyrics fight their way out of mourning toward gratitude for being alive as Dickey Betts’s slide guitar pushes ahead. Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Look, if you’re in any pain and you pick up a guitar that you love, your pain goes away,” he said as he improvised a riff on a custom-built PRS. U.S. guitar maker PRS resumes hand-building instruments - at a safe distance 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

"Ready for Love" to his throw-down top-4 performance of James Brown's "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World," glides up and down the scale in melismatic riffs, barks, squeals, shouts, croons, pleas. Hey, 'Idol' judges: Give Joshua Ledet his due 2012-05-17T22:34:04Z

Sales grew steadily through the decades and Ms. Johnson’s runway shows, which riffed on playful themes like “The Little Rascals” and ’50s beauty parlors, were whimsical parties amid the seriousness of Fashion Week. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z

Clutch, the hard-touring Maryland band with an endless supply of guitar riffs, is back on the righteous path of heavy rock after an ill-advised foray into bluesy territory. Review: Clutch get heavy again on 'Earth Rocker' 2013-03-18T18:06:08Z

He was matter-of-fact in his delivery, talking to his audience like he was just riffing in his living room with his friends. Bob Saget, a dirty daddy: Appreciating the darker elements of the talented comedian's work 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

These also radiate toward the edges, but concentricity bestows all sorts of associations — with picture frames, television logos, underground film and especially irreverent riffs on Josef Albers’s “Homage to the Square” paintings. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The men talk and riff, occasionally approaching a fully formed joke — Gervais actually gets there, with a line about Hitler's honeymoon — and constantly, effortlessly crack each other up. So these comics drive to a diner and drink coffee 2012-08-04T01:57:04Z

They understand that riffs need to be as simple as possible and as heavy as an iron foundry. The Sword – review 2013-01-10T17:16:20Z

This engrossing performance made clear that, for all its scintillating colors and jazzy riffs, modernist complexities run through the score. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Carey, an Australian residing in New York, riffs on the arithmetic of buying property in Manhattan. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z

Womack played the band – cuing horn riffs and guitar solos – while summarizing the lost decades when he was brought low by health issues and drug addiction before his recent comeback. Concert review: Bobby Womack at Brilliant Corners festival 2012-09-24T04:52:00Z

If “The Walking Dead” is “Lost” with zombies and a high kill rate, “Warm Bodies” is effectively a riff on every teenage romance ever told, from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe on. Movie Review: ‘Warm Bodies,’ Written and Directed by Jonathan Levine 2013-01-31T22:50:15Z

In both, performers dance, somersault and glide above the crowd in dramatic riffs on Jackson's number one hits. Michael Jackson show in Vegas more of a good thing 2013-05-07T20:35:08Z

This has inspired Mr. Ousley and his collaborators, the Harlem Chamber Players, to create an evening-length work riffing on the anthem, race and history: of the cemetery, and of the United States. Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The introduction sets up the familiar groove with its static harmony, pulsing bass and keyboard riff. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

They have riffed on nuns’ habits and the cloaks of friars, the red vestments of cardinals and the simple cassocks of priests. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

For one thing, the often-distorted keyboards of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Taborn — both also play acoustic piano on the album — handle much of the heavy riffing. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

We’re made to climb through an endless series of redundant and self-conscious riffs about his own prose, such as this constipated passage: Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s a phrase that riffs on the pedantry of bureaucratic inspection but also surveillance and state intrusion. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

She and her fellow players would pick their character out of a hat in front of the audience and riff from there. Why Suspects is revolutionising crime drama 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Loose peaked-shoulder suits, often long in proportion, defined much of the aesthetic which riffed on basketball attire and the street. Louis Vuitton stages Virgil Abloh swansong in Paris 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It begins with several of the cellos playing a scratchy, jumpy rhythmic riff; their lines hovering above, other instruments slide around, making spectral sounds. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Instead it felt anticipatory: a prelude to a riff. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z

This doesn't mean that the new album is filled with wailing trumpets and frantic Spanish guitar riffs. Natalia Lafourcade brings her intimate new album to the Regent 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

For our more high-minded readers: this is a riff on the soca anthem "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

The daiquiri riffs being served were free and delicious, but the crowd was proportional. On Bourbon Street, daiquiris are frozen booze bombs. But they can be so much more. 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

With the Seven Spice Sour, he told me, he was trying to do a riff on a sour that didn’t have the darkness — or wallop — of a whiskey base. The Tipsy Diaries: 3 Cocktails That Share an Exquisite Secret 2011-01-06T22:30:13Z

Mr. Woolery also does a one-minute daily riff on the news that is broadcast by 60 radio stations; that commentary is bundled into a “Blunt Force Truth” update on Fridays. And Now, Here’s Your Right-Wing Podcast Host: Chuck Woolery! 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

During "The Colbert Report" on Tuesday, the host riffed on Palin's recently launched channel, which promises all Sarah, all the time. Stephen Colbert hopes to grab Sarah Palin fans with his own site 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Jack Whitehall Secret Census riffs off questions to the public, to occasionally comic effect. Three in a bed 2010-04-20T23:05:00Z

It’s a high-seas adventure involving the crew of a time-travelling schooner, a device that seems to riff on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

But this colorful, restless score drew me in, with its passages of overlapping cyclic riffs, slowly heaving instrumental expanses and episodes of darting fragments, like some mystical dance. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

The piece is like a series of overlapping musical events in the process of disintegration: Brass riffs fragment; melodic lines turn diffuse; piercing sustained harmonies morph into hazy clusters; pulsing rhythms falter and fade. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

The other bands included Endless Boogie, a sort of secret-handshake New York rock band that reduces rock to chains of riffs. Review: Pharoah Sanders at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

I had consciously chosen to do something different, to abandon multiple narrators, freestyle riffs and essayistic interludes for an approach more restrained, seemingly simple – and brief. Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z

The author of “Crazy Rich Asians” brings his romantic froth of privilege and manners to the Hamptons in this madcap riff on “A Room With a View.” New & Noteworthy, From Kevin Kwan to a Call for Integration 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Filled with surprising facts and insights, “Built on Bones” is also burdened by Hassett’s constant pop culture riffing, puns and silly jokes. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

But his route to these riffs is filled with slightly unexpected details from his life. Meet a Looser, More Personal Seinfeld 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

And they riffed off the audience, too, appearing at times to weave our stances and gestures in with theirs. Review: ‘SILENT dialogue,’ From Dia Jian, Dances From Room to Room at the Met 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

A riff on both the biblical Exodus and “Waiting for Godot,” it stars Jon Michael Hill as Moses and Julian Parker as Kitch, bantering young black men with dreams of leaving their beleaguered block. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

He subtly interweaves quotes of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with made-up classical riffs and elements of Stucky's own music, adeptly moving us not only back and forth through history but also through reality and fantasy. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Allowing M.L.B. to use “Play Ball” felt a little desperate to me, even though the song itself was a solid foot-stomper with a crisp Angus riff at its heart. The Brothers Who Built AC/DC 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

On it, the Canadian singer-songwriter bemoans his lovelorn state over simple, crushing piano riffs, sounding like a perfectly sincere contemporary ringer for James Taylor. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Nightmarish fragments and skittering riffs unfolded as Ms. Clayton clawed her way up the ramp and slid down, suffering from flashbacks. Opera Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Performs at a Museum 2014-02-28T00:13:13Z

Billy Joel – Big Shot With a punctuated tempo, a vocal that seems to be impersonating Sly Stallone, and a staccato piano riff, it seemed time to show the Joel some love. Readers recommend: Songs about birds 2010-04-22T23:01:00Z

More recently, Mr. Crystal said he has found himself riffing and writing on themes of aging and his personal life, occasionally trying lines out on talk show appearances and at social gatherings. Billy Crystal on His New Book and His Later Years 2013-09-05T12:00:01Z

Their songs are character studies of unglamorous people, getting by as best they can, while the fuzz-toned riffs signal backbone. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z

For imaginative power, it was hard to beat the blues jam that closed the set: Allen taking a full 18 choruses that featured several riffs, variations on those riffs, then variations on the variations. Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns

And, though he doesn’t grapple with it explicitly, Sloss seems to understand it: rather than risk relaying his friend’s riffs in his own voice, he entreats crowd members to trust her judgment. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Much of your work riffs on street life. Bruce McCall’s “Down the Hatch” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Dinner sings a different song, a ballad of the Big Easy in a French Creole cadence, but with some original riffs. Taste of the Big Easy: bacony, boozy, crispy-fried and good 2014-02-27T22:27:38Z

There's a touch of the Shreks about the Ahlbergs' attitude to fairytales, and their Goldilocks riffs are adorable, anarchic and very funny. Goldilocks by Allan Ahlberg – review 2012-12-14T22:55:08Z

As a group, the actresses and their director were at times a goofy, giggling quintet, cracking wise and riffing on one another’s jokes. Who’s Afraid of Female ‘Ghostbusters’? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

He spins out his lines at a breakneck clip, the riffs come thick and fast, and the gags are sprayed on with a machine gun. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-24T10:21:39Z

Behind her, a tube-amplified guitar slices out riffs, an organ alternates between full chords and long rests, and a heavy, pushing bass keeps the band’s muscles flexed. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

And no, for two of Saturday Night Live’s finest, this is not an extended riff of old characters — Stefon meets Gilly. REVIEW: The Skeleton Twins: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Play Saturday Night Dead 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It’s propulsive, driven on a chugging guitar riff, and it shifts into its chorus deftly on the back of a bright, schizophrenic synth line. Britney Spears’ “Most Personal” Record Lacks Personality 2013-12-05T10:45:38Z

Because of her background in the church – from improvising on the piano while her father preached to riffing vocally in response to an enraptured congregation – Franklin wasn’t bound by the strictures of pop. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z

I'm still trying to figure out what the guitar riff is. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z

He’s a contemporary artist, riffing on the macho bravado of the Panthers, an organization to which his father, now serving a life sentence, once belonged. Review: ‘Party People,’ a Nostalgic Look at 1960s Radicalism 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The band plays in an aggressive style that features lightning-speed metal guitar riffs. As I Lay Dying singer admits seeking wife's murder 2014-02-26T14:10:38Z

This fact prompts Montross to insert a sustained riff about her daughter’s very different life at that age — one filled with Harry Potter, woven ankle bracelets and ice-cream cones. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The nu metal band turned the jam into one heck of a thrasher, with enough crushing guitar riffs to send a tingle down your spine and raise the hair on your arms. Korn remixed Rihanna track and it's amazing 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The play’s themes — a classical riff on no justice, no peace, a reckoning with the human impact on the environment — should reverberate. Review: In ‘Snow in Midsummer,’ It’s Not Just the Forecast That’s Amiss 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

What’s more, the charismatic and sensitive rhymes on his second major-label album, “Vibes,” have the same fleet artfulness of a good bop riff that were exhibited in his debut, “Timez Are Weird These Days.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

His sinewy band, the Lower 911, which will join him on Monday and Tuesday at City Winery, manages to riff on a classic sound without ever going retro. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z

Mr. Alexander was the subject of a riff from Mr. Gingrich last month — maybe as close as you will see to a public giggle fit from the former speaker of the House. Seeking Humor on the Campaign Trail 2012-02-03T23:13:23Z

The stand-out is the most Lizzyesque song, Bound for Glory, with one of those twin lead guitar lines kicking into a riff filled with empty space: it's like 1976 all over again. Black Star Riders: All Hell Breaks Loose – review 2013-05-23T21:20:01Z

There’s a riffing playfulness to her prose as it turns back on itself to interrupt, comment or elaborate. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The best adaptations riff a little, reimagining not just the setting but also the show’s sensibility. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

For there was something menacing — but strangely chic — about riffs on the historic couturier’s haute dogtooth check, used for coats that were laminated with plastic or for dresses where sequins looked like protective coating. Special Report: Fashion: Down and Dirty: Balenciaga and Balmain 2010-09-30T18:09:00Z

The electric guitar riffs were broader and cleaner, the beat heftier, the crescendos smoother in songs like “Falling Out of Love at This Volume,” from the mid-’90s, and “Poison Oak,” from 2005. Music Review: Soul-Baring Offered Amid Glitter 2011-03-09T22:23:04Z

Join the pair as they riff on their creative process and their nonlinear roads to fame, and how their brand of comedy hits a cross-generational cultural nerve. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Whenever he would get discouraged with his writing, that was his riff. What Did Stephen Sondheim Really Think of ‘Rent’? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

It unfolds in sound waves that swell and subside, rich with unsettling slides, piercing dissonances and spiraling riffs that never quite slip into a regular pulse. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The show never allows logic to get in the way of a good riff, or a bad one. The Toothless Satire of “I’m Sorry” and “Friends from College” 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

And it can be the engine to some daring riffs that dig at both sides of the culture war, even though he’s more animated and funnier going after liberals. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

During "Style," Swift strutted to the end of a long runway as the men, wearing red-and-black suits, trailed her on roller-skate shoes -- a clever riff on Madonna's iconic "Material Girl" video. Taylor Swift flexes a fierce new attitude at Rock in Rio USA 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Stripped down, both comedies are in fact rather glum riffs on themes of loss and mortality. ‘Getting On’ season 2: Hilarious medicine, in a weaker dose

New Balance, for example, is rooted in gray, omnipresent every season, suggestive of the urban running shoe, riffing on concrete. The Secret Psychology of Sneaker Colors 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

If a tense, noir surf riff out of a spy film didn’t emphasise the absurd stealth manoeuvres that underpin female beauty standards, the Spanx wedgie drove home the indignity. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, I remember thinking when we were on stage playing: "I guess you haven't actually nicked my riff ... in which case, we're cut from a similar cloth." Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z

And the – cue the dark violin riffs and make sure those frosé glasses are filled to the rim! – tragedy strikes. HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

Warhol straddles a line between the photographic and the cinematic, while also riffing on the reproducibility of photography, asserting with needle and thread a bespoke, handmade element that makes the image-grids unique, intentionally ready-made, objects. Andy Warhol Through the Lens 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

If you want to see what Lewis is riffing on, watch her turn as a Sunshine Cadet in The Golden Girls. Jenny Lewis Evokes Her Child Star Past in 'She's Not Me' Video 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

In Christina Anderson’s riff on “Love’s Labour’s Lost” set in the early 1980s, day laborers tired of surviving from moment to moment vow to devote their lives to building an economic empire. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Beach House, who plays a sold-out show at Neumo's on Monday, are more concerned with aesthetic affect than hooks and riffs. Sub Pop's Beach House brings a 'Teen Dream' to Neumo's 2010-04-08T22:34:00Z

Like all good caricatures, these interviews capture something of the truth, even if with exaggeration, and, as in all good interviews, the subjects speak freely, as if they were riffing unguardedly among friends. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

On Party Store, rough-cut, spartan riffing turns out to be a great fit for the 25-year-old future dreamed up by Cybotron and Derrick May, bringing out the music's harsher qualities but preserving its drive. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

Her comedy doesn’t wander or riff much, and when it does, there’s a purpose, as when she delivers this non-laugh line: “In our society there is no word for male mistress.” Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s got a huge drum sound, heroic riffing and crude, art-brut guitar solos just when your ears expect virtuosity. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

The intro kicks off with professors on campus drinking and littering while a guitar riff blares. Critic?s Notebook: In ?China, IL? on Cartoon Network, Authority Figures Go Wild 2012-02-18T01:27:28Z

“So I went back to the hotel and in an hour came up with the riffs for ‘Little Doll,’ ‘Not Right,’ and ‘Real Cool Time.’ Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Blink and you’ll miss Bruce Springsteen 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The viola and orchestra trade bursts of perpetual-motion riffs and phrases, in music percolating with sputtering rhythms and skittish lines. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

A start-to-finish rush of invigorating riffs and pointed narratives that heightens with repeated exposure. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

And it was the “Rock Lobster” riff, played on five strings in an open tuning. The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

“And the heat goes on,” Kidjo, singing now, declaimed over a bass riff. A Brilliant Return for a Talking Heads Album 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Greenway” uses a riff that sounds like 1990s metal, with a little funk in the drums. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z

The difference is that in “Hark” the riffing has more serious consequences. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“We Disappear,” the group’s latest and seventh record, streamlines both fatalist angst and misty-eyed ardor through head-bobbing guitar riffs. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

We weren’t trying to pitch a show, just were riffing on the name.” Can Angie Tribeca be a Police Squad! for the 21st century? 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The result was a kind of steampunk departure from the music of its forebears, riffing on both early minimalism and folk song in an intense and complex wash of twanging sound. Review | Folk songs, refracted: Soprano and percussion revisit Americana 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s about two people riffing off each other.” The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

In “Again and Again,” modal riffing and a limber six-beat pulse drive promises of devotion and satisfaction: “I see everything in you tonight,” Mr. Matthews sings. Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In a sweeping riff, Bill Burr predicted they would displace human sex partners. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The play “Fat Ham,” a comedic riff on “Hamlet” set at a Southern barbecue, hasn’t even had an in-person production yet because of the coronavirus pandemic. James Ijames on Winning a Pulitzer and Making ‘Hamlet’ a Comedy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

The flute’s skittish riffs and winding lyrical lines sometimes ignite agitated orchestral responses; at other times they are cushioned by subdued, sustained harmonies. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

“The Rake’s Progress” Slyly moving, Stravinsky’s operatic masterpiece riffs on Mozartean Classicism with an energy and tenderness that presses it past pastiche. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

“That iconic guitar riff perfectly accompanies footage of Bond doing just about anything.” Monty Norman, Who Wrote 007’s Memorable Theme, Dies at 94 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The song is full of riffs that are constantly recharging, and the gospel-inspired chorus comes out of nowhere. Grammy Awards: Fun. takes song of the year; Frank Ocean, Adele win 2013-02-11T03:02:00Z

On the spectrum from freewheeling to more structured, he falls in the middle, letting audiences tell their stories, then riffing until he finds the perfect punch line. When Bantering With the Crowd Is the Whole Point 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Blessed are those who struggle,” Ms. Cherry chanted at the end of “Weightless,” hurling the syllables against a riff that pounded harder and harder. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Window Seat would fit perfectly there, Agitation smooths over its prickly jazz piano riff by reprising the "What a day, what a day" lyrical motif from that album's hit On and On. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z

The finale Wouarri begins with a simple insistent bass riff, and builds to a furious, exhilarating climax involving wild chanting, and wailing brass and guitar. Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa: Fangnawa Experience – review 2012-11-22T22:00:01Z

While her bandmates weave riffs and textures drawn from across alternative rock history, Shaw doesn’t raise her voice, but commands attention through timing and phrasing, along with the shuffle-mode flow of her perceptions. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Not just a new companion, but a new everything, seemingly designed to riff on the history in time for the 50th anniversary. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012 2012-12-25T18:15:00Z

Listen for yourself here: Riley's impact on Townshend could hardly be clearer when you hear Baba O'Riley's keyboard riffs and delays. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

They usually sound like a wild rampage of 70s-like guitar riffs and distortions, especially on their new album Freak. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

It started with just the piano riff that one of our producers was playing and I just started singing: “Once I was 7 years old …” It took another 18 months to finish the production. For Lukas Graham, ‘7 Years’ Changed Everything and Nothing 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

An inversion of the “Art History” riffs can be found in a 1973-1974 series on the theme of the artist’s studios. Masters of Surface 2012-07-26T20:00:00Z

Quilt, from Boston, brought four-part vocal harmonies to their lustrous haze; Temples, from England, had crisp British Invasion riffs amid their guitar swirl. Critic’s Notebook: South by Southwest Festival Starts to Feel Corporate 2014-03-16T22:44:49Z

The song, powered by a Keith Richards’ riff and a chanted refrain, comes with a video showing deserted streets and subway stations in London, Los Angeles, Kyoto and other cities. Locked-down Rolling Stones release new track 'Living in a Ghost Town' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Band members also riffed on their mutual love of U2, looking for songs that resonates in arenas and stadiums. Zac Brown Band's new album 'Uncaged' out July 10 2012-04-25T11:16:04Z

The sequence epitomizes the intriguing tonal chiaroscuro in “Pantheon,” a rewarding, if not entirely flawless, riff on Greek mythology by the distinctive Happenstance Theater. Review | Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Tap dominates, but “Nut/Cracked” embraces a larger world of dance, including glimpses of Balanchine’s “Apollo” and “Serenade,” as well as a riff on the “Rose Adagio” from “The Sleeping Beauty.” Dance Review: ‘Nut/Cracked,’ a Holiday Ballet by David Parker 2012-12-21T22:15:45Z

All of the power and rawness of early Zeppelin, plus an insane Page riff and Plant vocals. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z

Rough start aside, the band pulled the audience deeper and deeper into the soaring riffs of its trippy, psychedelic arrangements. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

There are soft spots, but then there are riffs that find an interesting line and take off into flights of extended brilliance. Jonathan Lethem Imagines a World Where Technology Stops Working 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

But the show has more on its mind than celebrity antics or period-perfect riffs on the outlandish trials and tribulations of its lead couple — although it has those, too. ‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

The Uncommons had just a few puzzles on offer — an image from the game Exploding Kittens, a riff on “A Christmas Carol.” In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Richards and Mr. Wood brought whipsaw ups and downs to “Midnight Rambler” and honored the riffs of “Brown Sugar” while knocking them around just enough. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Dive-bombing feedback squeals, Mesa Boogie amplifiers and fuzzed-out riffs that mimic an overtaxed chainsaw round out the drive and drone. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

His “Twenty-Four Word Notes” comically riffs on the proper meanings, uses and misuses of two dozen words. ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z

Yet Mr. Muti and his inspired players did more, highlighting inner textures, obsessively repeated rhythmic riffs and harmonic complexities. Music Review: Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-07T22:03:08Z

On TikTok, a movie may be viciously parodied or recreated in fervid tribute; it may be mocked, riffed on or playfully remixed. Lights, Camera, TikTok 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

On the front, the Doof Warrior flies off a giant stack of amplifiers and speakers on a bungee cable harness while blasting through a series of sludge metal riffs on a double-necked guitar. Mad Max: the story behind the flame-throwing, scene-stealing guitar guy 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Think of "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink," then, less as memoir than extended riff, not a poem but a song cycle, lyrics written in a notebook over 40 years. Elvis Costello's aim is truth in memoir 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

They thunder into the final riff and the crowd goes berserk. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z

Loud, ringing guitars and stomping drums give "No Man's Land" the feel of a fire-and-brimstone sermon, while the glammy "Shades of Grey" is flashy and theatrical, with lightning-bolt metallic riffs adding a hard rock sheen. Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at 25: Why his most personal work was a perfect last record 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

That’s a lie made obvious with the opening riff of “The Letter,” their smoking rendition of the Box Tops’ 1967 hit. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

His latest exhibit riffs on a recurring theme of tango dancers, which he first painted in 1986. Forget Banksy: Meet Blek Le Rat, The Father Of Stencil Graffiti 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Struggle in the Digital Market,” the final movement, was also effective for the bold way Mr. Marsalis juxtaposed raw, wailing brass with spinning melodic twists, often hovering over obsessively repeated syncopated riffs. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

I sent the picture to an architect colleague, Manuel Ladron de Guevara, who is from Córdoba, and we began riffing on other architectural ideas together. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

He also riffs on the kitschy rustic driftwood carvings you'll find in any gift shop along the Oregon coast. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z

The fact is — as many pre-Columbian scholars have pointed out — much contemporary Latin American art functions as a “pre-Columbian remix” in the same way European artists are still riffing on Masaccio and Michelangelo. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Pre-Columbian Remix’ Exhibition, at the Neuberger Museum 2013-05-11T00:37:55Z

“Words under my breath float through the ceiling,” he sings softly to an object of unrequited affection, as an airy synthesizer riff evaporates like smoke. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The key to each episode’s success is the guest’s rapport with Mr. Seinfeld and the degree to which he realizes that it’s not enough to just riff and giggle — that even online chitchat takes work. Watch List: Seinfeld Talks Comedy in ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ 2013-06-12T20:58:16Z

Instead, he riffs on "opinions versus facts, social media where people would rather win than be right, and how sneakily freedoms are crushed." Ricky Gervais' shtick gets tricky in Trump and Brexit era 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

If the show could still use some tightening, especially of its slapstick riffs, I never checked my watch. ‘On the Town' Revival Opens on Broadway 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Leading a quartet, Mr. DeFrancesco stretches out wide beneath the singer’s blustering swagger, often interceding with riffs and jabs of his own. Van Morrison Would Rather Play Jazz Than Talk About It 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

He then riffed on a quote from Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher. With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

When the poet laureate of yearning, Kurt Cobain, numbly riffs "hello hello hello", I often think about what it is he wished for and whether hello might have meant goodbye. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

The trio opened with “We R Power,” the first track of the new recording, which set the tone for the evening, with fervent drum hits and quirky guitar riffs. Posies make Neptune crowd feel young again 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But music director Emily Leather realises Mozart's orchestra eloquently on the piano, aided by some eerie live electronic interventions from composer Harry Blake, who riffs cleverly on the original. Don Giovanni ? review 2011-08-24T17:41:34Z

“That guitar at the beginning of ‘Love and Happiness’ — guitar players all over the world still try to play that riff,” Boo Mitchell said this week, “but nobody plays it like Teenie.” Teenie Hodges, Soul Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 68 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

There were a few sketches that missed the beat, admits Bradley – a riff on the Incas, for example. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z

Both riffed on the moody nihilism of film noir. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The authors, first-rate obsessives, riff on the women who’ve consumed them — bearing out Frank Bidart’s line, “What you love is your fate,” with mischief, feeling and a rare frankness. Deep Cuts: Writers and the Women They Worship 2013-04-17T19:07:02Z

Even in an irony-laced age, our conventions still package sincerity — or the appearance of it, anyway — more successfully than cerebral riffing. The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The orchestra darts about in spare, Neo-Classical passages, with recurring rhythmic riffs and a quizzical quality. ‘The Passenger’ at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

It depends on a Biblical riff that arises from Frederica’s refusal to marry Sir James. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

He did a riff about how we devote a moment of silence to the dearly departed, and why there aren’t variations on that theme. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z

“There’s a riffing playfulness to her prose as it turns back on itself to interrupt, comment or elaborate,” Brandon Taylor writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the most explicit riff on the trend was the infamous Beto O’Rourke sex tweet, which translated his political positions into sexual ones. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s like night Twitter, where movie stars are riffing with rock stars and comedians and civilians, and everyone’s friends with everyone, and perhaps a little too pleased with themselves about it. The “Wet Hot American Summer” Prequel 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

On initial encounter, they seem to be boxy, uninventive riffs on old-style Minimalist abstraction. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was slightly noticeable in a classic Ramos gin fizz, but in the more intensely flavored Scotch-based riff I created, the salinity played better. How to make frothy cocktails without the egg: Use chickpea water. 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

I don't think Kenny G was overly familiar with the Warren G version of "Regulate," but he knew the Doobie Brothers riff really well. Jimmy Kimmel's secret to his musical mash-ups: 'I love a good pun' 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Most of his songs are built around sturdy, deceptively simple but memorable riffs, and the best, such as Imuhar, or the driving and hypnotic Amidinine, sound better with every hearing. Bombino – review 2013-04-26T16:43:18Z

The undeveloped Stockton Island in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Lake Superior is renowned for its “singing sands” on Julian Bay Beach that resound in squeaks and audible riffs when walked on or rubbed. The Long and Shore of It: The Country’s Most Intriguing Islands 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

You sense this in his sculptures, made from rice-sack hemp hand-twisted into cords wrapped around armatures, of freakish animals, crucifixions and sardonic riffs on traditional African masks — or rather on Picasso’s riffs on such masks. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z

The very idea is musical, and it’s easy to imagine Hawke riffing brilliantly in its free-spirited tempi, embodying Baker’s creative fury under pressure in a way that Budreau’s narrow settings don’t allow. Nina Simone and the Clichés of the Musical Bio-Pic 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

He wasn't above putting his own spin on whatever happened to be charting at the time, whether riffing on Sam and Dave in "Ode to Soul Man" or Phil Spector in "Falling in Love Again." Soul great's 'Mythology' rings true 2010-11-26T15:04:00Z

A three-dimensional riff on collage, these hulking amalgamations of household items—chairs, dustpans, shovels—emerge like stylized piles of garbage from the wall. New York’s Pace Gallery shows early Louise Nevelson collages 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

For half of “AM,” Arctic Monkeys are converts to desert rock, suspending tensile guitar riffs and long vocal lines over sparse drumbeats. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z

In “Like a Boss,” Ms. Coolidge plays a lonely beautician, Sydney, a downbeat riff on her “Legally Blonde” bend-and-snap turn. Jennifer Coolidge Loads Up on Vegan Chocolate Bars and Whipped Cream 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

I love to riff on the origin of the universe, black holes, space and time. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Buck’s guitar-playing was as much about arpeggios and ringing overtones as more conventional rock riffing. R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity 2011-09-21T21:46:00Z

The riffs, however, remain grandiose in his solo shows. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

At a news briefing last month, when asked about Twinkies maker Hostess shutting down, he went on a riff about not taking the bait. NJ Gov. Christie: My weight no bar to presidency 2012-12-12T22:51:08Z

Q. In part because of Led Zeppelin’s classic riffs, you guys are right up there with George Clinton and James Brown as sources for samples. Jimmy Page Talks About His Old Band, Its Legacy and Himself 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

They were entertainers part of whose acts riffed on the shtick of entertaining: think Murray’s lounge-lizard rendition of the Star Wars theme on SNL. Why David Letterman and Bill Murray Are Meant for Each Other 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Raeburn acknowledges that “there are real issues,” like “the decline in use of clarinets in brass bands, and movement away from polyphony toward section riffing.” Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Goal: Keep History and Make It 2013-07-05T21:53:36Z

"You hear that riff, the way the guitars start, and that's just classic rock'n'roll that you always want but don't hear enough," he tells me. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

The raunchy riffs and lowbrow gags of “Hot Tub” are vastly preferable to the navel-gazing sanctimony of “The Big Chill,” at least for my taste. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

Antonio's first advance is an hors d'oeuvre—a pert dome of salmon mousse topped with a single caper, a riff on the female breast. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z

Sivan’s breathy vocals dance atop an insistent beat and house-inspired piano riff, while a chorus of deep male voices chant the song’s infectious hook: “I feel the rush, addicted to your touch.” Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The film - like any film adaptation - is a riff on the books. Race, Hollywood and ‘Doctor Strange’: Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton, Annotated 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

But where before the Bad Seeds traded on riffs and brimstone, now aching washes bring a very different element to bear on Cave's fiery essence. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away – review 2013-02-17T00:07:20Z

Waters’s extended riffs on architecture, cuisine, Warhol and more are essentially a rebel’s attempt to buck the acceptance he’s accidentally found. Review | John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The orchestra erupts with big band bursts, rockish riffs and shards of fanfares: a heavy din of momentous pomp. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

Rhymes repeat sound, and the musical characteristics of boogie-woogie include riffs and rhythms that constantly replicate. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Douglas Thorpe's Tender Crazy Love is a duet of destructive desire, while Watson's own Repetition Of Change riffs on the complexities of DNA. This week's new dance 2013-02-02T06:00:19Z

When the opening riff returns, it’s slower and warmer, proceeding through chromatic transformations that are sometimes queasily dissonant, sometimes hopeful. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

During a year in which the horrors of the Anthropocene become more apparent by the day, it’s unfortunate to encounter a novel that riffs on our mistakes while not quite reckoning with them. Review | T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

A poster near its locked front doors this fall riffed on the ancient joke — “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!” — with a plea for “Patience, patience, patience.” Carnegie Hall Stands By Its Chairman, Despite Tax Violations 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

"I'll tell you what I wanted, what I really, really wanted - I wanted this terrible show to stop," said Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph, riffing on the group's biggest hit, "Wannabe." Critics savage Spice Girls stage musical 2012-12-12T11:58:09Z

Her new novel, the sinister and charming “New People,” riffs on the themes she’s made her own — with a twist. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, sensitively accompanied by Ms. Stern-Wolfe, fully brought to life the music’s conversational immediacy with passages of sunny optimism followed by mocking cackles, cunning microtonal slides and colorful riffs. Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

And so it went recently when I set out to make some coconut oil roasted sweet potatoes, a recipe I developed in 2011, and still regularly riff on. Refresh Your Sweet Potatoes With Fried Eggs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

On 99 Problems he not only plays guitar, inserting the riff from Walk This Way, but raps the role of a racist cop. Jay-Z/Justin Timberlake at Wireless – review 2013-07-15T11:29:14Z

Suffice it to say the jarring stop-and-start timing and riffing of a Rush song doesn't work with the heaviest of heavy metal bands, either. Music Review: Anthrax covers 1970s rock on new EP 2013-03-18T16:12:12Z

It’s essentially a riff on gin and tonic, with lower alcohol. Tired of rosé? Here’s what else to drink this summer. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

One night this week, I’ll make a vegetarian riff on tortilla soup, with black beans and tomatoes. Forget bone broth, if that’s possible. And say hello to sweet potato broth. 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

On stage, they are entirely present, playful with and supportive of each other, demonstrably admiring and affectionate, delighted for a bandmate when he plays an especially incendiary riff. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

But from the first ringing guitar riff of "Return," the Eno-Hyde filter channels myriad influences, including the classical minimalism of Steve Reich and the techno minimalism of electronic dance music. 'High Life' elevates the Eno-Hyde rhythm 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

A group show looks at the nature of abstraction at the intersection of painting, photography, video and installation — all of it riffing on the architectonic. Datebook: Abstraction and architecture, African American photographers 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Gail goes with a nifty riff on North Carolina-style barbecue, a salad topped with tender chunks of Vietnamese pork cheek and crispy, dried shrimp. There’s more in Chapel Hill than the Tar Heels, a family finds 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

In both, the orchestra tends to be attractively functional — a carpet of gently bluesy repeating riffs — rather than an expressive character in its own right. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

It slowly pulls you in with a driving bass line and fetching guitar riff before exploding in a flurry of keys and percussion. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

"I don't do vocal gymnastics, I don't riff like crazy and I don't rock out," Bergen explained. 'Madam Secretary' actor Erich Bergen moonlights in cabaret 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

As for me, I love to riff on absinthe as a nod to its wacky and storied history. The folklore-filled history of absinthe 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Her voice is raspily matter-of-fact and her guitar delivers a blunt, distorted riff — grunge with a twang — as bass and drums thump along. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Three electric guitars were going at the same time for most of the concert, often with two synchronized riffs flanking Martsch, who soloed over the top. Concert review: Built to Spill 11/19/10 at the Showbox 2010-11-20T20:57:00Z

Then the main riff begins, a vamp that bounces back and forth from the A major chord to the E minor. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

One by one and in front of the large crowd, they asked often-raw questions of Mooji, who answered or used them as springboards for riffs on faith. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

He noodles intricate riffs on an electric guitar while singing moony platitudes in a breathless voice, as if someone has just struck him in the midsection with a golf club. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The songs were rituals of abandon, inciting themselves further with every repeated riff. Goat, the Band, Brings Its Ritual to Webster Hall 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Love in a Time of Quarantine Save the toddler, save the world is the premise of “Flu,” a South Korean riff on Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” that thumbs its nose at that film’s measured restraint. Movie Review: Young Koreans Try to Survive an Epidemic in ‘Flu’ 2013-09-06T00:51:41Z

It's a genius song, so why not riff on its structure? How the 'Blurred Lines' case could have chilling effect on creativity 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

There are pop-culture one-liners and bigger philosophical talk, along with surreal riffs on dinosaurs, ghosts, history and books that never get read. In ‘Corsicana,’ Will Arbery Puts Art, Family and Down Syndrome Onstage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

And if there are no exact quotations from the symphonies, Mr. Widmann’s overture is run through with Beethovenian riffs, flourishes and humor. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

From there, it was a journey through their many hits, muscled along by brother Nathan's boom-boom drumming and cousin Matthew's loping guitar riffs. Kings of Leon 2010-07-01T20:31:00Z

It’s all about riff and rant, the equivalent of a punch-out in an alley. Album review: Off!, 'Off!' 2012-05-07T19:48:00Z

Has This Hit features two separate but simultaneous guitar parts: a piercing, Edge-style one-note riff and some aching, jazzy chords, each played with greater vigour as the song goes on. New band of the day ? No 916: Zoo Kid 2010-11-24T16:48:00Z

But from the opening riffs of "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," there was a disconnect. Coachella 2015: AC/DC delivers dirty deeds in desert set 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

“This is so many of the things I loved about Seattle riffing in general. … If this record had come out … this is what would’ve been the biggest record in Seattle.” Lost punk record from Duff McKagan, Mother Love Bone drummer surfaces after nearly 40 years 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

On watching Mistress America, I filed it as a riff on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, with Brooke in the role of a 21st-century Holly Golightly. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

His prophetic “The Boy in the Bubble,” with its weighty Sotho-style African accordion riff, envisioned technological advances coupled with constant surveillance; the band lingered, in vocal harmony, over the phrase, “Don’t cry.” Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The work rollicked along with blues-inflected riffs in dancing unisons on three main motifs: fast runs, repeated notes and syncopations. Trio celebrates 40 years of music 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Powell works well with these parameters, building songs out of coil-sprung riffs and soaring refrains. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z

The album is filled with taut punk riffs and its dauntless, alternately wailed and growled vocals are an exhilarating reclamation of feminist power. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

As irresistible Jesus music seems to be flying sky high, carrying us with it, a jazz riff in the background calls out for not following the flock but going your own way. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z

For him the job means history, funk from Africa and America, rapping, singing and showing off a hard-working three-man horn section, whose every riff was delivered with a choreographed swivel. Music Review: Creating an International Sound Without Compromising Their Roots 2011-08-08T22:15:02Z

The central guitar riff in "The Haze" is uptempo and probably a lot of fun to play, the kind of catchy musical idea that takes about three seconds to write and needs no further embellishment. Music Monday: Sax G Whiz, Hausu, BenadriLL 2011-01-03T18:28:08Z

As the music breathes calmly, motifs and figures intrude: a burst of quiet brass, a darting riff in the woodwinds, fidgety melodic fragments. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Designed for the Kunsthalle’s airy exhibition space, the display shows a number of Mr. Wurm’s droll installation pieces, including several riffs on Marcel Duchamp’s urinal artwork, “Fountain.” What's On This Week Around the World 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Presumably a riff on "mono", Pono seems to encompass audio protocol, music hardware, conversion software, and a cloud-based music service – though nothing has been confirmed. Neil Young to take on Apple's iTunes Music Store 2012-09-28T09:16:45Z

In the writers’ room at “@Midnight,” the Comedy Central game show in which he and guest comedians riff on Internet culture, Mr. Hardwick cracked jokes about the just-announced return of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The Cinnabon portraits — whose icing patterns riff on the Conceptual patterns of Sol LeWitt — look as if they could increase the nation’s obesity epidemic all by themselves. A Penitent Reflects on the Wilderness 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z

They answer an ad inviting them to resurrect a decrepit shopping mall, granting abundant opportunities to riff on silly store names and specialties. Movie Review: ?Tim & Eric?s Billion Dollar Movie,? From TV?s Comedians 2012-03-02T17:01:08Z

The Dreadfuls made their names on the fringe with a string of shows riffing on all things Victorian, an obsession that resurfaced in their excellent BBC Radio series The Brothers Faversham. This week's new comedy 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

Noise, riffs and chords become loops that pulse and ricochet all around. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

“Fever”, which curls with a robotic, beeping organ riff, is splashed with sweat, toting a well-defined bridge and ascending with a high-stepping swatch of strings. REVIEW: The Black Keys Go Big on Turn Blue 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

"They're passing with purpose, they're passing with pace," he riffed here, and he seemed unexpectedly happy, bathed in the tangerine glow of late afternoon sun. World Cup 2010: Something comforting about return to the BBC fold 2010-06-23T20:16:00Z

Ms. O’Neill then asked for suggestions for a word that Ms. Duca could riff on to start the show. Even the Teen Vogue Writer Who Took on Trump Gets Stage Fright 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

I am not referring to the central character in Mr. Stone’s contemporary riff on Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy from 1934, though the same questions could certainly apply. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Skinner starts “The Opposite” by himself, with a sputtering, shifty funk beat that’s soon topped by an accumulation of overlapping, stop-start guitar riffs, each one adding a new bit of disorientation. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

He improvises with glee and slides into riffs with ease. From Japan, the Heavy-Metal Kid 2010-10-20T11:24:00Z

What’s missing is the film’s mystery and humor; where “Catfish” was a clever riff on a found-footage thriller, “Catfish: The TV Show” is a standard reality series mixing elements of the dating and rehab-therapy genres. Television Review: ‘Catfish: The TV Show,’ With Nev Schulman, Exposes Deceit 2012-11-11T22:56:58Z

But they have their own sound: some songs have electronic elements, and their curious intros range from quiet blues, to almost jazz-rock, before those enormous riffs crash in again. The Sword – review 2013-01-10T17:16:20Z

Producer Jack Endino correctly calls the guitar riff that starts “Touch Me, I’m Sick,” the band’s first single, “the opening salvo of grunge,” and it certainly launched Sub Pop Records. ‘The Bourne Legacy,’ ‘Ted,’ ‘I’m Now: The Story of Mudhoney’ | New DVDs 2012-12-10T22:17:25Z

In different scenes, three characters from earlier parts of this show and “Breaking Bad” turn up to take a final bow and to help Jimmy riff on the theme of regret and second chances. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 13 Recap: Life 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Thanks to his contentious flute riff, the Men at Work multi-instrumentalist currently receives a small percentage of the song's royalties; but not, he claims, for long. Men at Work flautist may sell house after copyright ruling 2010-07-09T11:30:00Z

The artist creates intricate paper cut-outs based on drawings that riff on the unconscious, placing them in arrangements that reference the original sketch. Datebook: A show about the border, art inspired by L.A., an exhibition with its own marijuana strain 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

That's something of a signature riff for Gates, that mix of intellect and emotion, the casual appreciation of, and disregard for, what we might call the verities. 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me': David Gates' signature riffs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Jon Spencer sings, “I’m gonna break,” and the driver brakes; then a distorted guitar riff starts, commingling with the faint reverberations of a police chopper overhead. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The clothes were simpler, riffing on Raf shapes of the past: tunics and big coats, threadbare sweaters, abbreviated pullover vests. Raf Simons Salutes Robert Mapplethorpe, a Fellow Provocateur 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

It was a bold, thoughtful idea for a concert, with the spirituals flanked by the Copland work and “Let the River Be Unbroken,” George Tsontakis’s 1994 orchestral riff on 19th-century Americana. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

Imagine, someone wrote on Twitter, if the James Brown estate were awarded money whenever an artist riffed on that classic J.B. breakbeat. 'Blurred Lines' verdict a blow to creative expression 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Eventually the music became a web of fractured phrases, riffs and harmonies. Music Review: Best Way to the Concert? Get Yourself a Rowboat 2011-06-22T22:15:30Z

The small pieces are critical riffs, often acidic, on especially influential Americans of the past few decades. Books of The Times: ‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer 2013-05-28T21:18:55Z

Despite its grim relevance, “Pass Over” creates a vivid world of injustice while riffing on earlier ones. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But readers with some knowledge of classic picture books will marvel at the way Henkes riffs on Brown's "Goodnight Moon" and "The Runaway Bunny." These Caldecott winners are not resting 2011-06-11T03:51:13Z

Does Iommi think different bands have different riffs depending on the different metalworking jobs their members worked in? Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z

I actually enjoy them more than I like making new "Good Eats" episodes, because I do get to riff off that old version of me, who said some crazy s**t. "[I] had a really punchy face": Alton Brown on acting with his younger self on "Good Eats: Reloaded" 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Pipeline” begins with a series of plummeting bass notes then continues with a catchy guitar riff over propulsive keyboard, bass and drums. Brian Carman, Surf Rocker, Dies at 69 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

For all their opulent color and riffs on fancy ornamentation, these pieces bespeak a certain humility. Kathy Butterly's rapturous little reckonings in clay at Shoshana Wayne 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

At the same time, the lobbies lost their original marble floor, a riff on Manhattan’s grid, as well as polished marble walls that reflected the luminous ceilings. Isamu Noguchi Artwork in Midtown Building Is in Peril 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Bezar, whose name is a playful riff on both "bazaar" and "bizarre," will be a members-only curated shopping experience aimed at promoting emerging brands alongside established favorites. Founder of Fab.com launches a new design marketplace 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

He mimics what he thinks the shelter’s staff might be thinking in a sardonic riff, “OK, we did our part, now hit the bricks.” “Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Wilson slayed the song’s familiar and still-exhilarating riff on her Gibson SG. Review: Nancy Wilson plays her first live show in two years with Seattle Symphony 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

Rather than recreate the props of “At the Hawk’s Well,” Mr. Starling riffs on its creators and their colleagues in wartime Dublin, Paris and Tokyo. Simon Starling: Modernism Gazing Into the Past 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In it, she riffs on race, religion, sex, disruption and more. Five things we learned from Azealia Banks' Playboy spread 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

But he also retains the frothing enthusiasm of the newborn fanboy, and he tears into convulsive, obscenity-peppered rants that emulate the riffs of his favorite artists. Review: In ‘The Holler Sessions,’ a D.J. as True Believer 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the poems foregrounding verbal technique – concrete poems, a riff on anagrams, and "Pissarro's Orchard" itself – are more than makeweights. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z

The scribbling, shaping, working out, riffing and polishing happened before the first word was printed. Seinfeld's bland new book "Is This Anything?" is $35 dollars' worth of ambivalence and old jokes 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Onstage, Mizmor’s most lumbering riffs didn’t make time feel slow; they made gravity feel like it was pulling down twice as hard. Review | In chaotic times, Mizmor’s heavy metal is a model of composure 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

And while “Seven Psychopaths,” a riff on various macho Hollywood tropes set mostly in Los Angeles, mostly drew positive reviews, it was not a box-office success. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen,’ a Mordant Stage Homecoming in London 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

This is genial but consensual stuff, eclipsed by the riff that follows, about a pheasant that invades his home to savour "the high life at Casa Byrne". Ed Byrne ? review 2011-03-20T17:49:00Z

Legends of Valhalla: Thor is merely a riff on the Kenneth Branagh movie and Moonlight: The Vampires would only pass for Twilight if it was very dark and you'd left your glasses at home. Cannes diary: day six 2012-05-21T15:13:14Z

There is connective tissue, and the riff does make sense, but at first you groan, for her dropping a lugubrious Austrian philosopher into the middle of a scene that derives its power from the quotidian. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

And he excelled in the jazzy, playful second movement, which is like a 1940s American version of Stravinsky’s Neo-Classicism, impishly dispatching riffs and bopping lines while incisively executing the music’s rhythmic gyrations and irregularities. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z

Mostly, George grunts noncommittally, so Van Ness ends up riffing wildly from thought to thought. Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Or maybe congruity was the problem: movement slotted too directly into the leaden rhythms and riffs of songs like “Heart to My Chest” and “Shadow of My Mind.” Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z

There’s also an homage to Olney’s “Beauty and the Beast” production next door as other riffs play off the setting. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

A double portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman in layered profiles riffs on the exquisite, black-and-white tonal range that platinum print photography can produce. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Selfish Giant is better still: a brilliant, Bradford-set riff on Of Mice and Men, played out with kids and spotlighting the scavengers of a broken society. Cannes film festival 2013 diary: day three 2013-05-17T15:37:23Z

And at its heart, it’s an original riff on a well-worn formula that will keep you guessing until the end. Washington, Malek and Leto face off in ‘The Little Things’ 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Recently, customers have been riffing on the frozen Irish Coffee recipe themselves — asking for extra shots of whiskey, vanilla vodka, or coffee liqueur. Skip the Hurricane — frozen Irish Coffee is a New Orleans staple worth sipping 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Instead it's a wildly prismatic riff on existential identity, the patriarchy, internecine attraction/repulsion and more. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

While the show’s premise nods to celebrated acting teachers like Stella Adler and to extreme, emotion-based techniques like the Method, specifics are left aside in favor of merciless riffs on codified approaches to art. Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

The major change was Mr. Noah himself, and much of his material riffed on the transfer of power. Review: Trevor Noah Keeps ‘Daily Show’ DNA in Debut 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

That said, not all of her earlier riffs merit big laughs. Sarah Kendall – review 2013-02-08T17:57:46Z

His own longtime Southern-rock jam band has a gravity to match either of them, with brawling, distorted riffs and lyrics full of bleak insight. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

While she’s riffing, she also cues sound, lighting, set and costume effects. Theater’s Next Act? A Show That’s All in Your Head 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

One of the funnier riffs in the book is an email exchange between brass and subordinates on whether to refer to suicide bombers and the like as "terrorists" or "insurgents." 'Fobbit': spinning the war in Baghdad 2012-10-03T21:00:13Z

Q. In the movie “It Might Get Loud,” you talked about how, back in your studio musician days, musical directors didn’t object when you added a riff onto the melody of a song. Jimmy Page Talks About His Old Band, Its Legacy and Himself 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Interactive Tuned Feedback Pendulum Array is a riff on a Steve Reich "process music" piece, in which pendulums oscillate over speakers to create phased feedback. Aphex Twin – review 2012-10-11T16:29:00Z

Janiszewski arranges little riffs into a sort of minimalist visual music. In the galleries: Where did all the humans go? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Then you can figure out how to swap it in, so it's more like stepping back and trying to analyze what the recipe is doing, so you can riff. Sohla El-Waylly wants to make you a culinary "expert in your own home" 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

The result is a furious noise that sounds at times as if football fans were attempting psychedelic marching tunes on vuvuzelas, with lengthy passages of repeated riffs against drumming and chanting vocals. Various: Rara in Haiti 2010-07-08T21:55:00Z

In addition to supplying trumpet riffs, Ms. Robinson chipped in with vocals. Cynthia Robinson, Sly and the Family Stone Trumpet Player, Dies at 71 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

The Manhattan collection riffs on the cutting silhouettes and linear motifs of Art Deco masterworks in New York, such as the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, all extravagantly realized in glimmering diamonds. Leysen fine jewelry inspired by New York City architecture 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

When I was working on the play, it struck me as a bizarre and interesting idea, and that was one of the things that influenced my modern riff on The Changeling. Bed Trick: how we made a short film inspired by The Changeling 2013-05-16T11:21:14Z

And that woozy electric guitar riff at the start? The Short List: Songs of summer 2013-05-15T23:30:56Z

A cute postmodern riff, mostly on Strauss’s waltz-crazy “Rosenkavalier,” it follows a woman for 10 minutes as she recalls fragments of an old relationship. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

Today, riffs on art deco style fill the pages of design magazines and inspire the interiors of chic restaurants and hotels from San Francisco to Paris. A century after art deco’s birth, designers say we’re due for a revival 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Starting Tuesday, a Los Angeles court will try to decide whether the members of Led Zeppelin themselves ripped off that riff. The Latest: Lawyer says 'Stairway to Heaven' riff not stolen 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Gurung’s collection riffed on the classic American uniform of jeans and white T-shirts, played with hippie tie-dye, and took inspiration from the extravagant evening wear of American couturier Charles James. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

To create the soundtrack, the Bucket Boys improvised at 160 beats per minute, then the others laid down improvisations in response, riffing on the blues song “Sweet Home, Chicago.” ‘It Taunts the Eye’: Footwork’s Fast Moves Loom Over Chicago 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Both movies are cleverly constructed and smart enough to wander away from their jigsaw-puzzle plots in pursuit of odd moods, comic riffs and half-baked subplots. Review: In ‘Focus,’ a Grifter (Will Smith) as Life Coach 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a not very convincing scene that strains to riff on “Grapes,” the fundamentally reasonable William lashes out at the waitress, an ex-Okie, for romanticizing the Dust Bowl migration. Review | ‘Mother Road’ is often a slog despite burnished production at Arena Stage 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Its music riffs on “GoT,” complete with drumbeats and a twinkly harp, and it includes gratuitous nudity and a pointless beheading. Searching for Leonardo da Vinci in ‘Leonardo’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Its internal tool is called Blizzard Diffusion, a riff on Stable Diffusion, one of the popular image generators that enables anyone to turn text into art. A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The music melds Iggy Pop’s primal riffs with the arching melodies and structural convolutions. Review: Iggy Pop and his ‘Post Pop Depression Tour’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

He started off by delivering a comic introduction for himself, imitating the hyperbole of announcers at the Apollo while the 16-member band behind him vamped on a soul riff. ArtsBeat: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Apollo Theater in New York 2012-03-10T09:43:47Z

I started singing the bass riff with my chest voice and then jumping up to my falsetto voice to sing the tune. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

"Dark Web: Cicada 3301" gives the actor the opportunity to riff on a film noir antihero. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

In a statement Thursday, Penguin said the book was "filled with political riffs and a savagely funny set of new rules for preserving sanity in an insane world." Bill Maher's next book gives us the New New 2011-03-31T19:01:08Z

Finally, in one of those hard-to-believe duets, Mr. Glass played an affecting, wandering riff on the piano for the first number in Mr. Merritt’s set. Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z

Canned strings duet with an alien flute riff, while Coyne runs over the same sparse lyrics. The Flaming Lips Play Around with the Ender’s Game Score 2013-11-01T13:00:58Z

The motif of the briefcase is something that's prevalent in a lot of posters for the play and I wanted to riff on that. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

A week later, the show aired an uncomfortable sketch riffing off a panel of actresses at the New York Film Festival discussing Mr. Weinstein. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Jabs at Trump, Michael Flynn and Matt Lauer 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

The third riffed on 666, the Biblical “number of the beast.” We all fall down: a walk through Juventino Aranda’s arresting, disarming ‘Pocket Full of Posies’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, his own “childhood ability to get ahead of myself and reason to apocalyptic ends” he sees reinvented in his son, Darragh, as a “kind of apocalyptic riffing,” the media-age glibness of the young. A Stylistically Daring Novel Considers Fundamental Questions 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Fogerty often seemed challenged to fit all the words in at the accelerated pace, and many of his inspired guitar riffs consequently got short shrift. Perspective: John Fogerty rushes back to '1969' at the Bowl 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Even the official teaser for her Super Bowl performance riffed on the anticipation, featuring a chorus of voices clamoring for new Rihanna music. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The piece begins with weighty blocks of orchestral chords heaving over kinetic rhythmic riffs. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

One could dwell on the ways in which Some Kind of Fairy Tale riffs off fairy tales and offers commentary on them. Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z

Other hits, such as “I Feel Free” and “Sunshine of Your Love,” featured Clapton’s innovative guitar riffs and Mr. Bruce’s hard-edged vocals. Jack Bruce, bassist with 1960s British rock group Cream, dies at 71

After 20 minutes of riffing, writing things down and scratching them out again, they had outlined two menus for their slightly French but mostly Italian restaurant in SoHo. Glugs of Olive Oil, Flurries of Cheese and Two New Menus Every Day 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

There’s a joke about “glamping” and “Gladolf Hitler,” and an extended riff built on Bridget’s inability to pronounce a Southeast Asian colleague’s name. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the much younger members of Modern Baseball aim smaller, with scraggly guitar riffs and rambling Facebook confessional lyrics, but are equally adept at tugging at those high school heartstrings. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Beginning with a midday shot of the New York City skyline followed by a subway train heading to a stop, we hear the spangly opening guitar riff to the strut-with-a-purpose "Stayin' Alive." How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Lady Gaga opened the live broadcast with a splashy rendition of her new single "Applause," appearing in a series of outfits ranging from a riff on a nun's habit, with pearls, to a seashell-and-string bikini. Justin Timberlake wins big at MTV VMAs as 'N Sync reunites 2013-08-26T05:00:57Z

But westerns, like a jazz standard, can withstand all kinds of riffing. Television Review: ?Hell on Wheels? on AMC ? Review 2011-11-03T22:25:01Z

He did several things at once, singing in grunts and high precise wails, working bits of melody and middle-register guitar cries into the music without breaking the flow of the chord riffs. Music Review: The Truths That Only Repetition Reveals 2011-07-13T21:39:49Z

It implies religious music without a religion, except riffs and resonance — the religion of sound — which is a lot, and enough. Music Review: Om Plays Its Rhythmic Drones at the Temple of Dendur 2013-07-21T22:05:27Z

Much of Ansari's older material was riffs on popular culture, his infatuation with R. Kelly, texting women and goofing on his oddball nephew Harris. Aziz Ansari, smooth talker from 'Parks,' brings stand-up to Seattle 2012-06-20T21:54:05Z

As an ardent fan of “Edward Scissorhands,” I was pleased to hear the familiar tingling celesta riffs and wondrously spectral sounds from the opening of the film played in this full orchestral version. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Beautiful sounds pulsated through the speakers and danced around my teenage bedroom: the teasing guitar riff at the beginning of "Blinded by the Light" followed by the song's dense, verbose lyrics. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

With a pace and cinematic language openly inspired by Charlie Chaplin, it’s as much a riff on silent movies as it is a coming-of-age tale with a whiff of political farce. Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words 2010-08-31T22:25:00Z

A panel of comedians riffed on current hot topics—this week, openly gay athletes and how to get horses to participate in psych studies. Coming to a Theater Near You: Radio Shows 2013-05-03T21:11:41Z

The guitarist in the first “Sesame” traveling band was Carlos Alomar, who toured with James Brown and then wrote the riff for David Bowie’s “Fame.” How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Or is this just a new riff on a well-worn money-making model? Twist in the tale: super-spinoffs start to replace film remakes and sequels 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Thank you for Sabotage bass riff and many other great grooves. Reaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys 2012-05-05T01:46:03Z

The song packs multiple contrasts into less than four minutes, including a North African-flavored modal fiddle riff, two rapped sections with different flows, an interlude of choirlike harmonies, a resolute march and plenty of handclaps. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Solomon’s new novel is a reverie, a riff on “Mrs. Dalloway” and a love story. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

It's unaccompanied to begin with, then the orchestra enters with the familiar Barry repertoire of brassy riffs, rampaging toccatas and a rocking lullaby-style tune. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z

Dino D’Santiago, whose music riffs on the traditional funaná style from Cape Verde, said in a phone interview that, until recently, many Portuguese artists had tried to replicate the sound of American or French music. Pongo Turns Her Struggles Into Pop 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Whether the singer is drifting through a chiming Jaco Pastorius riff or a mutant Autechre drone, her voice seems to be making more space within the music and inviting us inside. Perspective | Kelela has a song in her head. Do you hear it, too? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

With Jagger growling out the lyrics, the incessant beat of the drums and the hypnotic guitar riff, the crowd was brought to a frenzy. At last – I get to see the Rolling Stones 2013-07-09T10:51:00Z

A culture war descends into armed conflict, in a way that reads like it must be a riff on Jan. 6 — except that Hawley wrote it the previous October. Noah Hawley Keeps Changing Lanes 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

Admired for her highly decorative, ironically titled riffs on Rococo-era old masters, Yukhnovich is one of several young female painters whose works soared to seven figures at auction last year. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

The opening guitar riff of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Heh-Heh. Huh-Huh. Mike Judge Brings Back ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The way the designer layered his looks, with techno sportswear or malleable cloth, was a subtle new riff on a signature style. Special Report: Fashion: Illuminating Shades of Gray 2011-01-19T19:14:24Z

And every time I hear the guitar riff at the beginning of “No More,” for a brief second I think I’m hearing the intro to the title song from “Rent.” How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Women Talking” and “Tár” are two very different films, but they are riffing on the same provocation: God is a woman. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

The popular conception of metal is that it’s fast and technical, but this New Orleans foursome is indebted to the drum grooves and thick, bluesy guitar riffs of Southern rock. Your week in Seattle music: Rufus Wainwright, Deck the Hall Ball and more 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Dreamy and delicate, brimming with romantic yearning, even the most urgently distorted moments of “Painful,” like the searing riffs of “From a Motel 6,” are rendered tenderly, with a measured restraint. Yo La Tengo’s model career: This is how to survive as an indie rock band 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

And Tom Sachs’s riff on the Nike, scrawled with his signature Sharpie, turns the shoe into an object intended for the artfully curated shelf rather than the streets. 150 Sweet Sneakers Come to The Brooklyn Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The next morning they delivered a catchy 12-bar blues riff with a soaring bridge, about a working stiff whose girlfriend makes all his toil worthwhile. Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Again, the satanic messaging was largely theatrical: occult symbolism, demonic lyrics and horror-movie guitar riffs. Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

He riffed from one to the next, turning the organ into an audible color wheel as he went along. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Then he turned the staid studio into an improv stage, riffing on a borrowed scarf. 10 of Robin Williams' Funniest Moments From Johnny Carson to His USO Tour 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Regulars interested in a change of pace should consult the specials, the prize of which is a riff on oysters Rockefeller, crisp with toasted bread crumbs and rich with bechamel. Review | After 36 years, Filomena still revels in old-time hospitality and titanic portions 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

And with more than half a century of movies, comic books and TV shows to riff on, Batman seems to be the perfect target. The Lego Batman Movie: five things we learned from new trailer 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Which is to say, West heard in King Crimson’s “20th Century Schizoid Man” an intense riff buried in an odd place; Gong songs are filled with such intense strangeness. Remembering Daevid Allen, co-founder of Soft Machine and Gong 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

A special mention to Tom Petty's descending riff on Runnin' Down a Dream, a phrase easily mastered by the non-musician and which I expect this minute is infuriating musical instrument retailers around the world. Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z

There’s usually some angst tucked between the brawny classic-rock riffs on a Black Keys album. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

If “Scream” were just a lark, a feature-length riff on horror tropes, it would be as tiresome and predictable as the movies it’s satirizing. ‘Scream’ at 25: How Meta Can You Get? 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

While writing “Follow Your Arrow,” they riffed on the song’s civil-libertarian theme. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Fela - a singer, composer and saxophonist - pioneered the Afrobeat sound by combining organ riffs with West African drumming and brass instruments. France's president visits Nigerian music legend's nightclub 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

All chunky riffs and polished production, for me the more commercial end of country often tramples on the soulful subtlety. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

Mood, riff, tempo change, breakdown, virtuoso drumming, a blend of influences. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z

“What is this, a live twitter feed?” the artist, née Annie Clark, retorted before launching back into her dark guitar riffs. St. Vincent: A New, Old-Fashioned Rock Star 2011-11-04T18:22:38Z

“I make my transformation, and it feels ni-i-i-i-i-ce,” Karen O vamps atop a chunky Nick Zinner riff and a shuffling Brian Chase beat — still, after all these years, a chemistry experiment that produces singular sparks. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The frenzy and anticipation surrounding his visit allow Mr. Guare to riff on the hopes we pin on the distant lives of awe-inspiring eminences, whether they hail from the Vatican or Hollywood. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z

Thom’s riffs about God and despair echo early Woody Allen movies — adolescent introspection leavened with highbrow literary references. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Yet, within those clouds, riffs and figures unfold in complex rhythmic patterns. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The routine featured many riffs on nominated shows and slayed in the room, even as many of their nuances went over the heads, or provoked annoyance, from those following on TV and social media. Tony Awards: Big winners, surprise losers and what it all means for the theater 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

And he improvised a lot, both with flares of amplifier noise and with city-blues riffs and curls that he shared with Mr. Haynes — a style descending directly from T-Bone Walker and Albert King. Critic?s Notebook: Different Trips From Georgia to New York 2011-03-14T22:39:07Z

Fortunately, things pick up a bit after that, thanks to a few sonic surprises, notably the harmonica riff in “Control” and the Alice-in-Wonderland psychedelia of the title song. Album review: Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People' 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

“American Horror Story” did a tasteless riff on school shootings this week. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 5: Be Patient and Tough 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

In Touzet’s arrangement the riff was played on piano, complemented by a jaunty brass section. Is This the Dirtiest Song of the Sixties? 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

And then somehow, in the late 20th century, nostalgia became a marketing strategy – a way to sell T-shirts and oldies reissues and movies and TV that riffed on the past in comfortable, uplifting ways. Make “Ghostbusters” great again? Reboot culture, male rage and the pathology of nostalgia 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The kind of bourbons that Mr. Erisman and Mr. Arnold riff on are abundant a mile away at Prohibition Bourbon Bar, a Newport den set in a back room of a restaurant. Savoring Bourbon, and Its Storied History, in Northern Kentucky 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

She avoided all country music cliches with a dramatic performance combining stomping riffs and balladry with songs inspired by her visits to China. Womad ? review 2011-07-31T16:03:48Z

Our critic Parul Sehgal praised this funny and sinister novel, which riffs on Senna’s hallmark themes: “what happens when races and cultures mingle in the home — and under the skin.” New in Paperback: ‘Ranger Games,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Well, there’s a wonderful sequence in here where Cave says something like “life is not a story” and goes on a sort of riff about that. Nick Cave mourns: “I just think that he’s living in a new world” 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The essays are deeply researched, beautifully written and intricately shaped; like musical compositions they have different movements, riffs and shifts in key and pitch. 'Genre snobbery conceals a deeper stupidity' 2012-08-27T14:34:29Z

Keef is best known for his riffs but Sympathy for the Devil proves he can turn his hand to solos with the best of 'em. What's the best ever guitar solo? 2012-07-20T11:33:35Z

The show opens with master-blaster electric guitar riffs, and an explosive invasion of acolytes garbed like anarchists protesting the WTO. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z

This is Thiebaud’s ninth cover for the magazine, and it riffs on one of his previous paintings, an image of a turkey that he started in 2009. Wayne Thiebaud’s “Stuffed” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

He and his band members, who previously performed as Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, offer similarly memorable blues riffs and funk bravado on their latest album, “Electric Slave.” Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:22:48Z

Its comparatively clean vocals and terse riffs exasperated some longtime fans, but even they were hard pressed to argue with the title track, a fierce yet contemplative assault of rock authority. Pop & Rock Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Over bionic riffs, her lyrics told rich stories, forming a folk music of her own creation. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The only deviations from the sweater idea were regular mannish suits printed with a splodge of faint flower pattern or suits made from floral organza as a riff on women’s wear. Fiscal Crisis Seems Far Away at Milan’s Men’s Wear Shows 2012-06-24T18:23:58Z

So it’s no surprise that a fresh crop of sangucherías is taking root amid the Chilean capital’s thriving food scene, riffing on traditional preparations and the typically kitschy settings. New Riffs on Santiago’s Old-School Sandwich Shops 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Parts & Labor does a riff on pimento cheese that glams up the Southern classic with garlic scapes and red chili pepper powder. Tom Sietsema reviews Parts & Labor in Baltimore

But seeing this sour riff on everything from to "Cat Ballou" to "Chinatown" to "The Shakiest Gun in the West," with a big suburban preview audience, was instructive. 'Rango' sells its soul for live-action 2011-03-02T22:58:00Z