In the music world, 2019 should be remembered for continuing an encouraging trend: the rise and reig | Continue reading
In the music world, 2019 should be remembered for continuing an encouraging trend: the rise and reig | Continue reading
It would be very easy to offer up an “it’s not me, it’s you” sort of review for Tropico 6, the most | Continue reading
The Trial of Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki, published by Drawn & Quarterly, continues the collected w | Continue reading
The latest evidence that 1998’s The Complete Hank Williams is erroneously titled is Pictures from Li | Continue reading
Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian (pronounced | Continue reading
The New York Philharmonic will present a Lunar New Year concert at Lincoln Center on January 28, 202 | Continue reading
Last month was my first time to visit London during the Christmas season. I was so excited to see al | Continue reading
Dave Soldier's newest release bracingly fuses originality and tradition. Zajal is a | Continue reading
In December, I took a break from London assignments to stop by one of the U.K.'s most prestigious ar | Continue reading
Astronomy Fluxx from Looney Labs is the latest edition to the Fluxx line of card games that have eve | Continue reading
The booklet that accompanies a new anthology from the Honeycombs begins by noting that they are “bes | Continue reading
The long awaited second season of Netflix’s Lost in Space is now available for viewing and it was wo | Continue reading
Cellist Jakob Kullberg will be performing pieces for cello, clarinet, and piano by Nordic composers, | Continue reading
Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna from Drawn+Quarterly presents an especially poignant view of the K | Continue reading
If you’re looking for an anthology with enough heft to do double duty as a doorstop, look no further | Continue reading
Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Ritchie (to name a few) get the satire treatment in Reality | Continue reading
Since its 2017 debut in London, Girl from the North Country has maintained a strong presence in the | Continue reading
The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” - William Faulkner It | Continue reading
Leonard Cohen’s excellent You Want It Darker—which appeared in October 2016, less than a month befor | Continue reading
W.S. Gilbert said that when he conceived The Mikado he wished to illustrate | Continue reading
'Tis the time of year when ten best lists start to appear in publications far and wide. So in the sp | Continue reading
Broadcaster Graham Norton is perhaps best known for his hosting duties for a show on BBC Radio Two a | Continue reading
*This review contains spoilers regarding Season One. The Mandalorian –the new hit series on Dis | Continue reading
According to their website, Intersect was “born out of the massive after party for AWS’s annual re:I | Continue reading
At only 29 years old, Dave Meder is already an accomplished pianist, composer, and educator. Before | Continue reading
Bob Dylan, who painted the cover picture for the Band’s 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, also wrote | Continue reading
Until quite recently, hearing anyone mention Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac would invariably re | Continue reading
New Jewish Music, Vol. 2 collects the 2018 winners of Canada's Azrieli Music Prizes. The album's two | Continue reading
This is a joyous time of year for so many people. As I write this, the last Advent candle has been l | Continue reading
Dutch-German cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke knits David Bowie songs together with elaborate monologue | Continue reading
*There are no spoilers in this review. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, directed by J.J. Abrams who | Continue reading
Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts isn’t the first album—or even the second, thir | Continue reading
Over the past decade, I have written about 400 reviews and have never reviewed a “Christian film”, u | Continue reading
Vivified by the recent addition of first violinist Areta Zhulla, the Juilliard String Quartet captur | Continue reading
Hungarian singer and songwriter Rozina Pátkai has two bossa nova-oriented albums behind her. On her | Continue reading
If you haven't seen The Woman in Black at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) in Washington, DC, t | Continue reading
Celebrated actor Sir Ian McKellen turned 80 earlier this year. To mark the occasion, he launched a o | Continue reading
When it comes time to assemble a retrospective box set, record labels undoubtedly start by evaluatin | Continue reading
As I settled into the world of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries I swiftly cycled through many different fe | Continue reading
Some people take pilgrimages to holy shrines, others to art galleries and still others to historical | Continue reading
Horror movies with the hoary themes of demon-summoning and deals with the devil proliferate on our s | Continue reading
On December 13 the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing (CCOM) will make its | Continue reading
Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) seems to be, in the English-speaking world anyway, mo | Continue reading
AKA-Also Known As from Endless Games is a brain-tickling, shout-out-loud party game. The core concep | Continue reading
Gunshots and butoh. Drinking songs and a musical saw. Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz, i | Continue reading
The Aspect Chamber Music Series capped off its 2019 New York City season with a concert of Russian m | Continue reading
It was a pleasure to meet freelance games artist Loukia Kyriakidou at MIGS this year. She was able t | Continue reading