Music/Book Reviews: The Doors: ‘Soft Parade’ (50th Anniv. Ed.) Plus Jerry Leger, Swans, Specialty Records

Asked to name a favorite Doors album, many fans would pick the group’s eponymous 1967 debut, 1970’s | Continue reading


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Montreal International Games Summit 2019: Ikumi Nakamura Panel – Open Minded Creative Designs

One of the great features of The Montreal International Games Summit is the conferences and expert s | Continue reading


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Music Review: Faun – ‘Maerchen & Mythen’ (Fairytales & Myths)

If I'm perfectly honest I can take or leave most attempts at recreating traditional folk music for m | Continue reading


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Music Videogame Review: ‘Spin Rhythm XD’

The moment I booted up Spin Rhythm XD I knew it was one of the unicorns of Rhythm games. It's simple | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Illenium – The Ascend Tour

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Montreal International Games Summit 2019: The Games

While MIGS, the Montreal International Game Summit, is a conference very focused on networking and d | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Pianist Ching-Yun Hu, Presented by GetClassical in School (NYC, 19 Nov 2019)

GetClassical in School is an ambitious new initiative to bring accomplished professional classical m | Continue reading


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Music/Film Reviews: Tim Buckley – ‘Live at the Electric Theatre Co.’ Plus Chuck Berry, Elliott Murphy, Gene Clark

Nothing in my rather gigantic CD collection means more to me than the music of Tim Buckley. His soar | Continue reading


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One Last Crypt: ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition’

Years ago I was having trouble with the Venice level of Tomb Raider 2. I simply could not figure out | Continue reading


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Music Review: Partch – ‘Harry Partch: Sonata Dementia’

I recently attended a concert that included a piece of music by Harry Partch (1901-1974). Some of th | Continue reading


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Montreal International Game Summit 2019: Interview with Benedykt Szneider of Reikon Games

One of my favorite games of the last few years was a violent, over-the-top yet beautiful action game | Continue reading


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Montreal International Game Summit 2019: The MIGS Experience

Every year in Old Montreal something special happens. Video game developers, students, professionals | Continue reading


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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Palimpsest’ by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom from D+Q

Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom from Drawn+Quarterly shows a corner of human trafficking not oft | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘The Winter Sisters’ by Tim Westover

In his novel The Winter Sisters Tim Westover takes an earthy, magical-realist dive into small-town S | Continue reading


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Game Review: ‘Kozo’ from Winning Moves

Kozo from Winning Moves Games adds a further dimension to the block-stacking genre of games. Adding | Continue reading


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Music Review: Aaron McMullan – ‘Angus After All’

Twelve years is a long time to wait for a musician to release their second album. But, as they, whom | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: Kansas City Symphony, ‘Holst: The Planets’ and Richmond Symphony, ‘Children of Adam’ and ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ Inspired by Walt Whitman

Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets was a formative experience of musical fusion for me. It | Continue reading


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Theater Review (Washington, DC): ‘Amadeus’ at Folger Theatre

When I visited London in January 2019 for an exclusive with Sir Derek Jacobi, I wasn't sure if I wou | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen – ‘Western Stars’ (Songs from the Film), Plus Rampart Records, the Revelers, New Riders of the Purple Sage

Bruce Springsteen’s moving and mesmerizing Western Stars, which I reviewed when it came out less tha | Continue reading


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From a Curator’s Wish List to an Institution’s Evolving Interests: John Glover and Kaufman Music Center’s New Vision for the 21st Century Musician

The administrator, producer, composer, and curator John Glover was recently appointed Director of Ar | Continue reading


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Wizard World Austin: ‘Gotham’ and Dancing with Greg Brady

Austin’s Wizard World Comic-Con brought three days of sci-fi, fantasy, cosplay, and generally uninhi | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: Rolling Stones – ‘Let It Bleed’ (50th Anniv. Ed.), ‘Bridges to Buenos Aires’

The Rolling Stones have often been right in step with their times, but never more so than in the fin | Continue reading


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Austin Film Festival Movie Review: ‘When We Last Spoke’ – Heartbreak, Laughs, and Cloris Leachman

I was a little skeptical when I read the log line for When We Last Spoke, which screened at the Aust | Continue reading


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Interview: Robot Teammate, Whose Hollywood Fringe Winner ‘Pockets’ Comes to NYC Next Month

Los Angeles-based musical comedy collective Robot Teammate announces a triumphant return to New York | Continue reading


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Austin Film Festival: Work in Progress – Story to Structure in Screenwriting

Screenwriters Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and Max Borenstein (Godz | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ – The Reboot This Franchise Needed

Director Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate is a welcome addition to the Terminator franch | Continue reading


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Board Game Review: Precious Cargo from Winning Moves

Precious Cargo from Winning Moves Games works perfectly as an introduction to multi-level strategy f | Continue reading


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Music Review: Bob Dylan—Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969, Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, Plus Kinky Friedman, Moody Little Sister, Steve Goodman

In June of 1966, Bob Dylan was still putting the finishing touches on the “thin, wild mercury sound” | Continue reading


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Austin Film Festival: Making Indie Films Takes a Team

To make a feature film may not take a village, but it does take a team. The Austin Film Festival ses | Continue reading


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AFF Film Review: ‘Cowboys’, I Never Knew You, Till Now

We’re not talking about John Wayne, Buster Crabbe, or Roy Rogers. Cowboys, a documentary which had i | Continue reading


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Music Review: Lucas Debargue – ‘Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas’

Pianist Lucas Debargue's new recording of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti fills four CDs. Yet these 52 | Continue reading


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Hamptons International Film Festival Review: ‘The Song of Names’ Starring Clive Owen, Tim Roth

Directed by François Girard, the acclaimed director of The Red Violin, The Song of Names is a film h | Continue reading


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AFF Film Review: Two on The Noir Side – But Very Different

DC NOIR and Sleeping in Plastic both brought a film noir feel to the 26th Austin Film Festival and W | Continue reading


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Austin Film Festival: Screenwriter Ed Solomon Reveals How ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ Began

On October 24, The Austin Film Festival kicked off its twenty-sixth year of promoting the art and cr | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Live and Bush – The ALT-IMATE Tour

When a band you loved in college embarks on a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of its seminal a | Continue reading


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Videogame Review: ‘The Outer Worlds’

The Outer Worlds, a Fallout-esque space romp by Obsidian and Private Division, is a truly inspiring | Continue reading


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Music Review: Kinky Friedman – ‘Resurrection’

After a 40 year hiatus Kinky Friedman proves with the release of his new album, his second in as man | Continue reading


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Fun and Frustrating: ‘Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD’ and ‘Dark Devotion’

As of late I’ve been finding myself struggling with two games. Not struggling in terms of making sen | Continue reading


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Music Review: ‘Pour Me A Grog – The Funana Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde

If you never thought of the accordion as a radical instrument you need to listen to Pour Me A Grog - | Continue reading


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Washington West Film Festival: In Conversation with Anthony Daniels of ‘Star Wars’

Now in its ninth year, the Washington West Film Festival (WWFF) maintains its firm foothold with art | Continue reading


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Board Game Review: ’13 Dead End Drive’ from Winning Moves

13 Dead End Drive comes back to the gaming table from Winning Moves Games, bringing mayhem and murde | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Pianist Alon Goldstein (NYC, 22 Oct. 2019)

Pianist Alon Goldstein performed an era-spanning program of animated piano music at the Baruch Perfo | Continue reading


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Music Review: Steve Miller Band – ‘Welcome to the Vault,’ Plus Mavericks, Sofia Talvik

What’s left to offer in the retrospective department when you’ve already released Anthology, Best of | Continue reading


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Movie Review: Horror Anthology ‘Holiday Hell’

Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murr | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Blanket Toss Under The Midnight Sun’ by Paul Seesequasis

In Blanket Toss Under The Midnight Sun (Penguin/Random House) Paul Seesequasis has compiled photogra | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Agent Running in the Field’ by John Le Carre

Agent Running in the Field (Penguin/Random House), the latest novel from the master of the spy story | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Momenta Quartet Plays Ligeti, Partch, and a Roberto Sierra World Premiere (Oct 16, 2019)

The Momenta String Quartet gave each of its members an evening to curate during this year's edition | Continue reading


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Tech Review: Mixcder E7 Headphones – Hearing Everything and Nothing

The Mixcder E7 Wireless Active Noise Cancelling Headphones offer options and refinements for your li | Continue reading


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