One Life, by Johnny Clegg, first released 2006, 16 tracks, ASIN B000I5YROM We’re on our way home to find our freedom and I’m on my way home to find you my friend […]
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I know that I speak for all Americans. We’ll do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain while inspecting flooding in Columbus Junction, Iowa, a […]
V.P. audition in print: Review—America: Our Next Chapter by Sen. Chuck Hagel
One of the names floated as a possible vice-presidential candidate—floated, interestingly enough, by both parties—is Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel. Hagel was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and established himself as […]
Tennessee Williams still standing even if his House is wobbly—Review: A House Not Meant to Stand
Tennessee Williams spent the last few years of his life writing, revising, rewriting, and reworking a play that would become his final frustrated howl at the world. And he considered it a […]
ArtSunday: love among the ruffles
By Ann Ivins James Tissot is a forgotten man. He belonged to no movement, popular or controversial; he was neither a pre-Raphaelite nor an Impressionist, though his career spanned both eras. He […]
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We were just having fun making posters. There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in […]
WordsDay: History is dead—long live history
History has returned from the dead. The idyllic future, once considered inevitable by Western leaders in the early 1990s, is dead instead. The dreams of a liberal, all-men-are-created-equal world are dead, too. […]
ArtSunday: "improving" Jane Austen
Periodically, it seems, to those who now have bought back into the concept of history, humans begin to think that their great works of literature are insufficient. This is not necessarily a […]
TunesDay: what is, what was and what almost was – the S&R interview with Don Dixon
I’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy […]
ArtSunday: Godard says everything is cinema – except when it's politics, perhaps…
Jean Luc Godard’s 1968 epic WeekEnd closes with the following end title: END OF CINEMA Leonard Lopate of WNYC has a terrific interview with Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker […]
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