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Film Interview: “A Quiet Passion” — Terence Davies Pays Homage to Emily Dickinson

April 13, 2017
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Director Terence Davies read four biographies of Emily Dickinson; the details of her life he remembered became the basis for his screenplay.

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Concert Preview: Local Boys Make Cool Jazz — The Levin Brothers Reunite

March 24, 2017
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One of my favorite quotes from Gil Evans is, “Quit playing what you think I want you to play!”

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Concert Preview: Grand Harmonie’s “March Madness”

March 23, 2017
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“We thought, why don’t we hark back to earlier occasions which were equal parts socializing and entertainment?”

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Music Interview: Session Americana and That Little Round Table

February 17, 2017
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Session Americana has matured from a local, informal collective to a polished touring band.

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Music Interview: Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols — A “Lonely Boy”

January 30, 2017
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Having long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.

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Visual Arts Interview: Doug Weathersby — Making Art Out of Work

January 28, 2017
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Among other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.

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Music Preview: Interview with Composer Adam Schoenberg

January 20, 2017
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Adam Schoenberg is also one of the most widely-performed living composers of orchestral music; in fact, he’s among the top-ten in that category.

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Music Interview: Tommy Stinson — The Living Embodiment of Rock-and-Roll?

January 18, 2017
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Anything Could Happen is a 12-song collection that is as good as anything that a fan could have hoped for from Tommy Stinson.

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Music Interview: Kristin Hersh — Making the Best Music of Her Life

December 14, 2016
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“There should never have been the cult of the rock star. That just shouldn’t have happened.”

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Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

December 12, 2016
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Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

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