Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is an extremely well-made piece of propaganda – I expect U.S. armed service recruiting […]
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Greg Unangst’s The Music Studio is small – the stage area is maybe 12’ square, and the 50-75 […]
Last night I drove to Syracuse to see my beautiful and talented friend Janet Engle in her Redhouse […]
Ava DuVernay’s Selma is an outstanding piece of filmmaking – measured yet passionate, artistically honest and illuminating. There […]
Science fiction was my first literary love. As a pre-teen I devoured Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and others, without […]
On New Years Eve, I attended a party and ended up in the basement with thirteen year-olds. The cellar consensus was that the Beatles are the best pop/rock group ever; of course, this made the conversation more interesting than anything upstairs, and refuted the coincident media firestorm about how young people today (Kayne West fans in particular) have no idea who Paul McCartney might be. And so, for my new teenaged friends, my favorite Beatles tracks.
I just finished listening to Serial’s first season, which I started just a few days ago. The 12 […]
The Internet is replete with examples of two-word music criticism, which reflect a certain quality of thought: “That […]
On a recent December evening, Richard Enders sat by himself in a backstage dressing room at Utica’s Stanley […]
I took a film appreciation class once at a community college. The instructor had us write about our […]
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