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Music Review: The Harry Smith B-Sides: Precursor to The Harry Smith C(ensored)-Sides?

The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Folk, Music, Review Tagged: Dust-to-Digital, Jeremy Ray Jewell, The Harry Smith B-Sides

Theater Feature: An Interview with Benny Sato Ambush on Directing the Virtual Reading of Anthony Clarvoe’s “The Living”

“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Anthony Clarvoe, Benny Sato Ambush, Hanife Schulte., The Living

Visual Arts Commentary: America’s Historical Monuments — Under Reconsideration

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Frank Gehry, Mark Favermann

Dance Review/Commentary: “The Grand Union” — The Story of the Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance

This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Marcia B. Siegel, The Grand Union - Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, Wendy Perron, Wesleyan University Press

Podcast Review: “The Joe Rogan Experience” — Taking Responsibility for Random Gab?

As amusing and informative as The Joe Rogan Experience can be, a few podcast interviews doth not an actual education make.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Podcast, Review Tagged: Matt Hanson, The Joe Rogan Experience

Arts Remembrance: Eddie Van Halen

Not since Jimi Hendrix had there been such a game-changer for the electric six-string.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music, Rock, Uncategorized Tagged: Eddie Van Halen, Paul Robicheau, Van Halen

Jazz Commentary: Louis Armstrong as Negotiator

Throughout much of his career, Louis Armstrong negotiated a balance between being a “popular” artist and a jazz artist.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Louis Armstong, Steve Provizer

Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Kaplan, Longing Lasts Longer, Penny Arcade, Tennessee William Theater Festival

Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200

Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Allen Michie, John Keats, Poetry, The Eve of St. Agnes

Jazz Remembrance: Ira Sullivan

In no way was the recognition that Ira Sullivan received commensurate with his skill.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Ira Sullivan, Steve Provizer

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