Month: June 2014
Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
Read MoreWhat’s not to adore about this super-friendly, hedonistic, 24-hour street party, what summer resident John Waters celebrates as “a gay fishing village,” and what I might label, oxymoronically, a “queer New Orleans.”
Read MoreArtists need cash in order to record, tour, and create. They also need support as they hunt for better ways to connect with their fans. That’s where services like PledgeMusic come in.
Read MoreUntil now, the powerful economic reality spotlighted by The Arts Factor has generally been ignored or dismissed as anecdotal.
Read MoreRebecca’s spirit will persist in every artist who remembers how much she believed in them, every organization that she urged to greater risk-taking and optimism for the future, and every friend brought together by the sorrow of her passing.
Read MoreThe beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story’s essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think — it’s as unsettling as it is charming.
Read MoreEcho’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.
Read MoreIn red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.
Read More“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
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