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Once again, drummer Ralph Peterson pays fine homage to Art Blakey’s tradition of joyous, hard-edged bashing jazz.
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What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.
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“I really thought that I could sustain a life in music, but perhaps I’d end up in Las Vegas backing Tom Jones or something.”
Read MoreThere will be readers who appreciate Daniel Menaker’s brevity and lack of emotional engagement, but for me, much of “My Mistake” reads like notes for a memoir.
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Few contemporary authors much care to tussle with the proverbial mot juste; Lance Olsen insists on it, and over the course of fifteen novels, five books of nonfiction, and five short story collections, has shown himself a master of prose style.
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What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
Read MoreThe Arts Fuse begins a new regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreWhy did Chester Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Byam Stevens choose such a banal, lazily-written play with no drama, no development, barely any interesting language, and none of the wit, charm or whimsy I’ve come to associate with this stage company?
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“Goyhood” can be larger than life, and its plot is a real doozy, but this isn’t a lightly comic excursion: the religious and social consternations that roil the brothers Belkin are as earnest as they are outlandish.
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Media Commentary: Walter Lippmann and the Need for Reliable News
99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
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