Entertainment
With moral authority
For the growing good of the world is
partly dependent on unhistoric acts. —George Eliot, Middlemarch
On Jan. 31, 2003,
Katherine Gun’s life changed.
Gun, a translator
working for...
Endless Scene
Bluegrass music is meant to be heard while sitting on a grassy field at a sunny summer festival. That’s the belief of fair-weather bluegrass...
The Kissaway Trail isn’t breaking barriers but they’re enjoyable
Here’s the deal, snobs: There’s this Danish quintet called The Kissaway Trail that gathered some steam back in 2007 after they released their debut and performed at music festivals and supported bands like The National and Interpol. They’ve got a great sound, tight ...
Untamed adolescence
Once upon a time, there were five beautiful Turkish sisters whose parents died when they were very young. As a result, they were sent...
Blast from the past
When I was a teenager, I sweated out my adolescent angst in a barely listenable garage band like countless other young, hopeful musicians with grandiose visions of rock stardom...
The collective ‘Ahhh!’
The cinema has few theorists as gifted as David Bordwell. Film Art: An Introduction, co-written with Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith, is taught in...
Harry Shearer wants his piece of ‘The Simpsons’ pie
LOS ANGELES — He may provide the voice of greedy...
September Dawn
The swift and cold pre-autumn rain,
Will not, dear life, have come in vain.
The last burst of green life given
In dried beds of aged creeks...
Ending in the Middle Earth
There are many things I don’t understand: quantum mechanics, car commercials, who put the bomp in the bomb bah bomp bah bomp...
