Month: September 2019
At its best, Tiny Beautiful Things delves deep into demanding emotional territory without becoming sappy or maudlin.
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Will Birch’s biography Cruel to Be Kind effortlessly details the six decade career of rocker Nick Lowe.
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Robert Hunter did as much to shape the sound and influence of the Grateful Dead as guitarist Jerry Garcia did.
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Jake Brennan’s unique blend of humor and horror generates very entertaining stories about some of the most shocking crimes committed by various icons of rock, pop, and punk music.
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The latest show from circus troupe The 7 Fingers is both intimate and gasp-inducing.
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David Byrne and the band has clearly made a home out of the Emerson Colonial, working out tweaks in what has evolved into an extremely tight, invigorating show.
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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
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In this remarkable and timely book, David Treuer is determined that Native American history not be seen as a “catalog of pain.”
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This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.
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Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60
You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.
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