Entertainment

‘Who is she?’

0
Gabby Vermeire still remembers the first meme she posted in 2019. The template: an anime illustration of a bespectacled man gesturing fondly towards a...

Majestical or just majestic?

0
Family units are fascinating things. Some come ready-made, while others must be forged out of sheer will. That’s what Ricky (Julian Dennison) is hoping...

Artist Dana Schutz: Rearranging the world

0
What if, Dana Schutz asked herself, you remove the finite result from an action, the part where death would result from something like eating yourself, and the narrative of your life was freed from that inevitable end? She painted the answer in oil on canvas — slick...

Unearthing what’s beneath

0
When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.  Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...

Al Stewart’s cast of characters

0
In April of this year, Al Stewart was awarded A Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC2 Radio Folk Awards ceremony.  These events are usually bittersweet...

Walk with me to the end

0
Dan Kuester and Kirsten Farnsworth had only been married for two months when Kirsten was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Between aggressive treatments over the...

The original English major

0
Somewhere in the course of our phone conversation, I ask Robert Earl Keen how he planned to use his degree in English literature after...

The comeback kid

0
In September, Gary Numan’s new album, Savage (Songs from a Broken World), entered the U.K. Album Charts at No. 2. This, Numan’s 22nd album,...

Somewhere in the dreams

0
In late January, the dead came to visit Alain Johannes in his dreams. It certainly wasn’t the first time, but this time the guitarist himself...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 says this is World War...

0
The drama surrounding Modern Warfare development studio Infinity...

A melting pot of rock ‘n’ roll

0
It could be argued that Los Lobos is American music’s Statue of Liberty—a genuine melting pot of rock ‘n’ roll, folk, traditional Mexican music...

Home viewing: Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations

0
Both born at the end of the 19th century, Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) and Oliver Norvell Hardy (“Babe” to friends and family), found...