Tickets are still available for this Concord Chamber Music Society's Special Artist benefit, featuring Yefim Bronfman. Here's the scoop: Friday, April 7 @ 7:00pm (Pre-concert lecture with Steven Ledbetter begins at 6:00pm) Concord Academy Performing Arts Center 166 Main St. Concord, MA Fantasy, Op. … [Read more...]
MEDIUM PAST ITS MESSAGE
SHILLING FOR HISTORY Go here and click on "When America Was Rocked," airs next Tuesday, April 11 at 9/8 on the History Channel. Taped last summer. … [Read more...]
DUMMY
Velvets, Beefheart DVDs... … [Read more...]
SHARON STONE’S CHINATOWN
This time, DAVID HOUSEMAN plays a law-enforcement psychiatrist whose sleazier than a British MP... And if its spread-eagle teaser is anywhere near as original as its title (BASIC INSTINCT 2) then [snarky riposte]... HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH I'd like to see … [Read more...]
SLAPSTICK YODEL
QUOTE OF THE MONTH, BELLS ON From Frank Kogan's new collection REAL PUNKS DON'T WEAR BLACK (Georgia): "Rock criticism is built on unintelligible cross-references..." NIGHT EDITOR "No peg, no larger social issue (except random murder?), no point, really, we'll pose it as a whopping tale but it's … [Read more...]
SECURITY BABES
IT'S COME TO THIS Donald Fagen's new CD is out, and it may be the only time I ever find my name alongside his on the same disc, so suffer. FREAK ON Found this on Flickr. … [Read more...]
WHO’S THAT GIRL?
She's everywhere, the European laptop blond whose magazine ad smirk sells zillions of language tapes. Why hasn't she turned up plugging milk? Aren't copy writers knocking down her agent's door? Who does she think she is... the ad world's Eva Cassidy? Doesn't she look like she's about to stand up … [Read more...]
BREAKING PLUG…
Tune into WNYC.org's SOUNDCHECK today (3/13) at 2pm for a Rock Hall of Fame chat with Warren Zanes... … [Read more...]
NUKES R US
CLICK THE FALSIE: Congress passes Patriot Act, nation yawns. Harper's: At least 65 dogs in the President's security detail were put up at a five-star hotel in New Delhi; hotel staff were told to address the dogs as "sergeant" or "major." Torture continues, nation yawns. Barron's calls for … [Read more...]
CLASSLESS AND FREE
GLOBS FOR INDUSTRY! One of my favorite critics, Gerald Early, has a NYTimes blog: My daughters do respect [Ali's] stance against the draft, but only in the light that Ali was a more honest and sincere draft dodger than Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and others. He couldn’t duck into … [Read more...]
SHAKE ME UP JUDY!
FOG: IT'S WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST If you missed Bleak House , watch for repeats or rent, you'll believe Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock, but you'll get totally lost in Anna Maxwell Smith's Esther. LIKEWISE Huffman deserves a lot of raves, but the script is inconsistent. Go to see Kevin Zegers, … [Read more...]
FRI
Digg has David Thomson on this year's nominees, and the real stumper is HISTORY OF VIOLENCE... … [Read more...]
GONE FISHIN’ FEB 20-27
So go nuts: "Modern communication isn't about truth, it's about a resonant narrative," says Eric Dezenhall, a former Reagan administration aide and now president of his own crisis management firm. "The myth of PR is that you will educate and inform people. No. The public wants to be told in a story … [Read more...]
CONCERNED WITH DECISIVENESS
GRABS FROM AZ, BUT STILL Album Art , almost after the fact... CLICK THE FALSIE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted that conservatives are lying... That's right, in his testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke had an exchange with Independent Congressman Bernie … [Read more...]
place holder
FEB 21-28 So go nuts. … [Read more...]