Music Reviews: Live Sets from Little Steven, Plus Mac Leaphart and Michael Lawson

When I met with Steve Van Zandt (aka Little Steven) in 2019, I asked him whether the brand | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Catalyst Quartet – ‘Uncovered: Vol. 1, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’

A new recording from the Catalyst Quartet of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is part of an encourag | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Catalyst Quartet – ‘Uncovered: Vol. 1, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’

A new recording from the Catalyst Quartet of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is part of an encourag | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Film Q&A: ‘Miss Virginia’ and the Real Miss Virginia

Watching this film, I found myself getting emotional over a scene depicting a vote in Congress. That | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Film Q&A: ‘Miss Virginia’ and the Real Miss Virginia

Watching this film, I found myself getting emotional over a scene depicting a vote in Congress. That | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Dice Game Review: ‘Bluffaneer’ from Big G Creative

Bluffaneer from Big G Creative offers high-seas hijinks on the tabletop as players bluff one another | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: A Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth,’ Plus David Huckfelt

Wilco’s terrific Summerteeth—the group’s third album, which first appeared in 1999—expands to more t | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Rising Star Ericka Black: Networking to the Top

“Network, network, network.” That’s what you get told to do to make it in the entertainment business | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Jeremy Beck – ‘By Moonlight’ and Anna Clyne – ‘Mythologies’

Jeremy Beck, By Moonlight The album By Moonlight amounts to a career retrospective for composer Jere | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Remote Learning – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

After the first week of remote learning for the spring 2021 semester, I have mixed feelings abo | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Charlie Doherty’s Top 50 Releases of 2020 (Phantogram, Nils Lofgren, Hum, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and More)

If you're a big fan of music, despite all the madness and darkness of the pandemic and social unrest | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Theater Review: ‘Dog Act’ by Liz Duffy Adams, from The Seeing Place Theater (Live Stream)

Near the end of Liz Duffy Adams' wry post-apocalyptic comedy Dog Act, there's a play within a play. | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse’ by Anahid Nersessian

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, by Anahid Nersessian, and published by the University of Chicago | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Box Sets Celebrate Cat Stevens’s ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ and ‘Tea for the Tillerman’

Folk/pop singer/songwriter Cat Stevens famously walked away from the music business in 1978, but tha | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Concert Review: Steve Sandberg Trio (Livestream – January 30, 2021)

It's easy to forget how many essential classical music forms are rooted in dance. Pianist Steve Sand | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘Metaphysical Africa’ by Michael Muhammad Knight

Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community, published by Penn State Univ | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Movie Review: ‘We Can Be Heroes’ – For More Than One Day!

The new film We Can Be Heroes now streaming on Netflix, is Robert Rodriguez’s latest contr | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Revisiting John Prine’s Early Albums, Plus Arrica Rose and These Fine Moments

In the late 1960s, John Prine was a Chicago mailman who wrote and played songs as a hobby. | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘The Absolute Book’ by Elizabeth Knox

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, published by Penguin/Random House, is one of those books which | Continue reading


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Music Review: Still Corners – ‘The Last Exit’ (2021)

A road trip is one of the top to-do items for American youth. Ever since the automobile was invented | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Soul’ Reminds You That You Have One

Soul, the new animated film streaming on Disney+, is the best antidote for anyone suffering because | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

‘Cheers’ Writer Rob Long on Soft Power and Hollywood

Hollywood writer/producer Rob Long (Cheers, Kevin Can Wait) spoke with Robert Haigh, CEO of Brand Fi | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

CES 2021: NASCAR Robots, Start Your Engines

The phrase “Drivers, start your engines” has long been associated with the Indy 500 and NASCAR. But, | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Season 2

Audiences in the U.S. and Canada finally have a second season of A Discovery of Witches to watch. It | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

CES 2021: Last Gadget Standing

For twenty-one years a staple of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been “Last Gadget Standing. | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Review: Boundary-Stretching Opera and Song Cycles at Prototype Festival

Like so many other cultural events, this year's Prototype Festival was entirely virtual. Undaunted, | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Dire Straits’ Studio Albums, Plus Uncle Walt’s Band & Harry Dean Stanton

You’ll find essential tracks on each of the six albums in Dire Straits’ recently issued clamshell-bo | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Richard Hell – ‘Destiny Street Complete’

Destiny Street by Richard Hell and The Voidoids was first released in 1982 as the follow up to the s | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 – The War of the Dojos

Anyone who has watched the three seasons of Cobra Kai – the follow up to the very successful Karate | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

CES 2021: Online Technology Show Done Right

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), like so many other film, trade, and technology events this past | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Film Review: The Intriguing ‘Go/Don’t Go’

Go/Don’t Go is a deliberately-paced but intriguing indie pic set in what seems to be a post-apocalyp | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Prince’s ‘Sign O’ the Times’ (Super Deluxe Edition) Plus Richard Hell

A new edition of Sign O’ the Times, Prince’s brilliant and remarkably eclectic 1987 double | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: Season One of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’

The remake of All Creatures Great and Small premiered on PBS Masterpiece last Sunday, January 10. Th | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Grievous Angels – ‘The Summer Before The Storm’

Canada's alt-country band Grievous Angels are set to release their eighth album, The Summer Before T | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Pianist Yoonie Han – ‘Hollywood Romance’

Expecting to get romantic in the new year? It would be hard to find a better enhancement than Hollyw | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: ‘Penelope Keith’s Village of the Year’

Last month, I watched Dame Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born, Executive Stress) perform in a Zoom pr | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘Cheshire Crossing’ by Andy Weir with Illustrations by Sarah Andersen

If you ever wondered what would happen when you combine The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wo | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music & Book Reviews: Exploring Joni Mitchell’s Archives, Plus John Lennon’s Solo Years

A remarkable new box set lets you listen in as Joan Anderson, an obscure folksinger from Western Can | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘Reynard the Fox’ Anne Louise Avery

Reynard The Fox, as retold by Anne Louis Avery, and published by the Bodleian Library, is a wonderfu | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: ‘Martin Clunes’ Islands of America’

Usually one of my New Year's resolutions is to travel somewhere new, but I've put road trips and con | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Videogame Review: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’

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


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Coronavirus – Celebrating a New Year’s Eve Unlike Any Other

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


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Review: Gay Marshall – ‘Back on Boogie Street: Songs of Leonard Cohen’

Leonard Cohen tributes and projects were plentiful even before the poet-singer-songwriter's death in | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Letter to You,’ Plus Jimmie Vaughan’s ‘The Pleasure’s All Mine’

On most of the albums in his large catalog, Bruce Springsteen limns fictional characters—e | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Book Review: ‘The Popol Vuh’ – Michael Bazzett

The Popol Vuh, translated from the K'iche' by Michael Bazzett and published by Milkweed Press, is fu | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Music Reviews: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘1969 to 1974,’ Plus Steve Forbert’s ‘Rodgers Revisited’

Like the Bee Gees and a handful of other bands, Fleetwood Mac were lucky enough to have en | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

TV Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 – Father Knows Best

To say that The Mandalorian Season 2 on Disney+ was better than its first season is like saying the | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago

Theatre Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ by the Guildford Shakespeare Company and Jermyn Street Theatre

With Christmas around the corner, it's time to catch a performance of the beloved Charles Dickens ta | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 3 years ago