Commentary
A household name in Black America, Lee Williams had little need for the kind of crossover project that can earn a gospel act attention from the secular music media.
The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.
Watts’ relentlessly unembellished drive on dozens of classic songs, from “Satisfaction” and “Shattered” to “Connection,” is what makes them so danceable.
These days, I’m not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.
The results of a Facebook contest for the Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959
Throughout history, theater has been a place where the community has looked honestly at what is killing it.
“If you are more critical or try to highlight some of the worst things that happen in America, then you are un-American or anti-American.”
Stuck in a world where regular shopping was rare and live performances extinct, the right path seemed to be the curls and swirls of mentions and references that led to surprising new or little-known artists and fascinating new levels of famous ones.
Author Appreciation: Historian Stephen B. Oates
No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
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