When I met with Steve Van Zandt (aka Little Steven) in 2019, I asked him whether the brand | Continue reading
A new recording from the Catalyst Quartet of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is part of an encourag | Continue reading
A new recording from the Catalyst Quartet of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is part of an encourag | Continue reading
Watching this film, I found myself getting emotional over a scene depicting a vote in Congress. That | Continue reading
Watching this film, I found myself getting emotional over a scene depicting a vote in Congress. That | Continue reading
Bluffaneer from Big G Creative offers high-seas hijinks on the tabletop as players bluff one another | Continue reading
Wilco’s terrific Summerteeth—the group’s third album, which first appeared in 1999—expands to more t | Continue reading
“Network, network, network.” That’s what you get told to do to make it in the entertainment business | Continue reading
Jeremy Beck, By Moonlight The album By Moonlight amounts to a career retrospective for composer Jere | Continue reading
After the first week of remote learning for the spring 2021 semester, I have mixed feelings abo | Continue reading
If you're a big fan of music, despite all the madness and darkness of the pandemic and social unrest | Continue reading
Near the end of Liz Duffy Adams' wry post-apocalyptic comedy Dog Act, there's a play within a play. | Continue reading
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, by Anahid Nersessian, and published by the University of Chicago | Continue reading
Folk/pop singer/songwriter Cat Stevens famously walked away from the music business in 1978, but tha | Continue reading
It's easy to forget how many essential classical music forms are rooted in dance. Pianist Steve Sand | Continue reading
Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community, published by Penn State Univ | Continue reading
The new film We Can Be Heroes now streaming on Netflix, is Robert Rodriguez’s latest contr | Continue reading
In the late 1960s, John Prine was a Chicago mailman who wrote and played songs as a hobby. | Continue reading
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, published by Penguin/Random House, is one of those books which | Continue reading
A road trip is one of the top to-do items for American youth. Ever since the automobile was invented | Continue reading
Soul, the new animated film streaming on Disney+, is the best antidote for anyone suffering because | Continue reading
Hollywood writer/producer Rob Long (Cheers, Kevin Can Wait) spoke with Robert Haigh, CEO of Brand Fi | Continue reading
The phrase “Drivers, start your engines” has long been associated with the Indy 500 and NASCAR. But, | Continue reading
Audiences in the U.S. and Canada finally have a second season of A Discovery of Witches to watch. It | Continue reading
For twenty-one years a staple of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been “Last Gadget Standing. | Continue reading
Like so many other cultural events, this year's Prototype Festival was entirely virtual. Undaunted, | Continue reading
You’ll find essential tracks on each of the six albums in Dire Straits’ recently issued clamshell-bo | Continue reading
Destiny Street by Richard Hell and The Voidoids was first released in 1982 as the follow up to the s | Continue reading
Anyone who has watched the three seasons of Cobra Kai – the follow up to the very successful Karate | Continue reading
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), like so many other film, trade, and technology events this past | Continue reading
Go/Don’t Go is a deliberately-paced but intriguing indie pic set in what seems to be a post-apocalyp | Continue reading
A new edition of Sign O’ the Times, Prince’s brilliant and remarkably eclectic 1987 double | Continue reading
The remake of All Creatures Great and Small premiered on PBS Masterpiece last Sunday, January 10. Th | Continue reading
Canada's alt-country band Grievous Angels are set to release their eighth album, The Summer Before T | Continue reading
Expecting to get romantic in the new year? It would be hard to find a better enhancement than Hollyw | Continue reading
Last month, I watched Dame Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born, Executive Stress) perform in a Zoom pr | Continue reading
If you ever wondered what would happen when you combine The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wo | Continue reading
A remarkable new box set lets you listen in as Joan Anderson, an obscure folksinger from Western Can | Continue reading
Reynard The Fox, as retold by Anne Louis Avery, and published by the Bodleian Library, is a wonderfu | Continue reading
Usually one of my New Year's resolutions is to travel somewhere new, but I've put road trips and con | Continue reading
It is late, I have a hell of a hangover and Johnny will not stop talking to me. Is this what going i | Continue reading
It was once again New Year’s Eve, but the 2020 version just didn’t feel right to me. I knew many oth | Continue reading
Leonard Cohen tributes and projects were plentiful even before the poet-singer-songwriter's death in | Continue reading
On most of the albums in his large catalog, Bruce Springsteen limns fictional characters—e | Continue reading
The Popol Vuh, translated from the K'iche' by Michael Bazzett and published by Milkweed Press, is fu | Continue reading
Like the Bee Gees and a handful of other bands, Fleetwood Mac were lucky enough to have en | Continue reading
To say that The Mandalorian Season 2 on Disney+ was better than its first season is like saying the | Continue reading
With Christmas around the corner, it's time to catch a performance of the beloved Charles Dickens ta | Continue reading