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Appreciations of art and popular culture (movies, music, books, theater) from long ago to now.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
The Music of Prince and Paisley Park (Warner Bros. Records, 1985 - 1993)
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Like many other pop music fans worldwide, I’ve been listening to the songs of Prince a lot since his sudden death earlier this month. Fro...
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Garth Greenwell,
What Belongs to You
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016)
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What Belongs to You , Garth Greenwell’s powerful and heart-rending debut novel, often seems to inhabit an earlier era. Take out t...
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Five Favorite Films of 2015
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Judging from my five favorite movies of 2015, or the five films that stayed with me the most, this has clearly been a somewhat unusual year...
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Saturday, August 1, 2015
Brad Gooch,
Smash Cut
(HarperCollins, 2015)
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I had to read Brad Gooch’s Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s & the ’80s over a period of about two months in gr...
Monday, June 22, 2015
17th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival (June 17th - 21st, 2015)
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If someone was new to our planet, the annual film festival in Provincetown would be an excellent introduction. Seeing nineteen movies ove...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015
Austin Bunn,
The Brink
(Harper Perennial, 2015)
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The arrival of Austin Bunn’s debut book of short stories, The Brink , is certainly well-timed. We’re living in an era of history that fee...
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