Live Venues In Long Line Awaiting Aid by Stacy Cowley Reporting for The New York Times, Stacy Cowley details the dire situation faced by performance venues across the nation, largely shuttered since last spring and without reasonable prospects for a … Continue reading Outside Reading —Till It’s Gone edition
I solicited assistance in selecting the track for this week’s edition of this modest celebration of new music, and of course my partner in all things instinctively advocated for the song that draws inspiration from the Italian horror films of … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Nun Gun, “Stealth Empire”
I remember being on airplane watching a parent in the seat in front of mine attempt to keep their kid occupied by dialing up the R-rated DC animation adaptation of the seminal nineteen-eighties graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, presumably … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 4
In the festival introduction to his feature I Was a Simple Man, director Christopher Makoto Yogi inviting the audience to visit Hawai‘i for a couple hours. That struck me as an amusing, diversionary way to introduce what looked to be … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 3
Part of experiencing Sundance only vicariously in previous years was having my curiosity piqued about films being positioned as contender in Academy Awards categories for a ceremony over a year out. It’s blissfully odd to instead actually view and assess … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 2
When Steven Soderbergh picked up the first ever Audience Award for a narrative film at the Sundance Film Festival, in 1989, everything changed. Soderbergh’s film, sex, lies, and videotape, went on to be an arthouse sensation, and Sundance was suddenly … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 1
398. Yaz, You and Me Both (1983) If the old adage about books and their covers can be applied to albums, it’s also fair to remember that, as Rod Stewart once sang, every picture tells a story. In the case … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #398 to #396
An “Angry Mob” On Reddit Is Pushing Up GameStop’s Stock Price And Pissing Off A Bunch Of Wall Street Firms by Amber Jamieson I haven’t been especially attentive to this week’s flashiest business story, the assault on the norms of … Continue reading Outside Reading —The Power to Play edition
A couple weeks ago, singer-songwriter cracked a good joke on Twitter: Because McRae knew her way around a guitar and a microphone, she followed up the next day with a “preemptive cover” of that imagined song, delivering fifty seconds of … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Jensen McRae, “Immune”
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. Bravo, New Orleans. Bravo. Other entries in this series can be found by clicking on the “Art of … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — #SleevesUpNOLA
Coffee for Two 