A musician from the 70's looks at the music industry today.
L.E. KalikowNew York,
To cope with internet overload, we allow algorithms to sift through and feed us bits and pieces to match our tastes or cosmetically enhanced anchormen (and anchorwomen) to spoon up headlines to the tune of tone-deaf sponsors. All this through ...
A South-by-Southwest preview of the new Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg comedy
Andrew OsborneTX,
A sneak peek of AMC’s lollapalooza new series “Preacher” screened on 3/14 to a packed house at Austin’s Paramount movie palace during the SXSW film/music/interactive festival in advance of the show’s official 5/22 launch. Reactions were decidedly mixed. On ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
In 1926, German director Fritz Lang stunned international audiences with his masterpiece Metropolis and its depiction of a false utopia that hovered over futuristic slums housing an enslaved underclass whose only function was to keep the ...
Andrew OsborneLos Angeles,
Okay…My wife & I are fortifying ourselves with pizza & onion rings…a vapid model’s being vapid on E! It’s #Oscar2016 time!
#RedCarpet greatest hits…Michelle Williams, Halle Berry, and that backless dress that made straight guys momentarily hot for Hilary ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha” Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago, in conversation with Zarina Zabrisky, will recount the story of their humanitarian and civil rights campaign, zeroing in on the current state of human rights in Russia. They will touch on LGBT ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin left the expected waltz repertory usually on his New Year’s Eve concert last year, opting for a night of Italian arias sung by guest soprano Angela Meade. He saved his waltz time a Goodbye ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
For 20 years public radio maverick Ira Glass has been the snug talking nasal pitched storyteller of “This American Life.” Of the hundreds of stories he has broadcast and produced each one features someone telling their personal and very human ...
Joanna G. Harris
I asked the people next to me at Nohspace on Friday, November 4, which of the two offerings they liked. “Detour Dance,” they replied. Yes, I agreed. It was entertaining, eventful, lively and well performed. But Emspace’s “Whether ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
Erasing Time
Sara Shelton Mann
Yerba Buena Center For the Arts Forum
Fri. Dec. 4, 2015
Ticket info. $30 at door, $25 in advance YBCA members $20, Senior, ...
Literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store
Andrew Osborne
It was sometime after the man in the mushroom cap sang a song about earwigs yet well before Werner Herzog's nihilistic re-imagining of "The Wizard of Oz" that I realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Instead, I was sequestered ...
