Entertainment
Enhancing the excitability of the whole machine
Friedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will,...
School is in session
In School of Rock The Musical, wannabe-rock legend Dewey Finn poses as a substitute teacher in order to make some extra cash. When describing...
Tales of the road
James McMurtry spends hundreds of hours in the van each year, traveling America’s highways to the 100-plus shows he and his band annually perform.
The...
When I paint my masterpiece
Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke, in one of his best performances) is having a crisis of faith. The parish pastor of New York’s 250-year-old First...
The right stuff
On May 14, 2018, Tom Wolfe — one of America’s most exuberant writers — died at the age of 88. Among his litany of...
You can’t turn your back on the blues
Faces/Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood once said the blues is “part of the makeup of modern music. You can’t turn your back on the...
No spectators
Strolling across the property where artist Android Jones lives, it seems fitting that a man whose art is often experienced projected against domes would...
The ones with the thin, bright faces
Everyone knows of Neverland and Peter Pan, but far fewer people know Scottish playwright James Matthew Barrie’s other magical worlds and characters.
Produced by...
It’s Not Too Late
Walking around the lake this afternoon,
something about the cottonwood leaves, strewn
along the shore, and how the colors glowed,
and the reflections in the water slowed
me...
Jazz sextet, tap dancer, vocalist and choir? It must be Ellington!
Duke Ellington, jazz legend, pianist and band leader, spent the last decade of his life creating and presenting “sacred concerts.” Described by one critic...
Lost Highway Wondering
There is a line in the sun
As the crack in an egg
I am wandering the interstate
Walking on tired legs
With dreams as diesel gasoline
A glow...
Over the hill, onto the mountain top
Dennis Glowniak, aka D Rider to KGNU listeners, has 57 seconds before he goes live when Sean Makau, the station’s promotions director, walks in...
