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Finding the fun in painting
Other than his perpetually paint-stained clothes, Binghamton, N.Y., native Sam Jablon cut a deceptively ordinary figure during his four years (2005-09) at Naropa University, where he graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in writing, meditation and visual art. A ...
2020 in movies
2020 was the year I watched more but understood less. With a rotating series of crises to consider, rare were the instances where I...
Ghost in the machine
On some level, every work of art is a reflection of the human condition. Who we are and how we relate to others and the world around us is the concern of every artist, but for some, that concern is an obsession...
‘Shrek Forever After’ takes in an estimated $71.3 million
LOS ANGELES — One-hundred-million-dollar mega-openings are now long ago and "far, far away" for Shrek and pals...
The welcome unpredictability of Shakey Graves
"I don’t really wear a lot of suspenders anymore,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, tells me from a small town in British Columbia with “a...
Conscious Alliance, Elephant Revival come together to inaugurate the Buffalo Heart...
When the Link Center Foundation (LCF) decided to close its doors in 2009, many of the board members were left with heavy hearts...
Cannes 2011: Director Lars von Trier retracts Nazi comment, apologizes
CANNES, France — Danish director Lars von Trier, an...
Hip hooray and ballyhoo for 42nd Street
Pedigree. It’s not just a dog food. It’s heritage, tradition and history. It’s the icing on the cherry. It’s the sherry on the Sheri. It’s the ever-so-tenuous thread connecting Bing Crosby to My Chemical Romance. It’s a badge of honor and a goal toward which to ...
Like a prayer to the ethos
Inaiah Lujan, frontman of The Haunted Windchimes from Pueblo, Colorado, needs help finishing a song. He’s got the intro, the verse, the chorus and...
A common theme
Listening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy...
Heavy Rotation — New Releases
“New York Summer,” by Generation Lost — A fun instrumental pop song sets the tone for a laid-back summer from the German trio’s wealth...
When therapy and performance collide
Audience interaction is the bread and butter of any improvisational theater — in comedic shows, even just the mention of the next game of the evening will usually invite an eruption of suggestions from an eager crowd. But for troupes like Playback Theatre West, ...
