For Chris Wells. Many were the times during my childhood and adolescence when, due to my consumption and enjoyment of certain particular pieces of popular or, I should more accurately…
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Gravity Radio, a multi-media song cycle by the composer Mikel Rouse, comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival on December 7 and runs there through the 11th. It's…
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Readers of John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra will remember a curious scene near the end where the hero, Julian English, drinks an enormous highball from a flower-vase and plays his…
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To show off my journalistic versatility, and because I was asked, I interviewed Elvis Costello about his new album National Ransom for MSN Entertainment News. The piece, which I think…
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Writing her initial impressions of Olivier Assayas' Carlos from the Cannes Film Festival in May, my friend Manohla Dargis admitted something about the picture, which she largely admired, was bugging…
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(...and pushed, too) My friend Gary Lucas, one of the most dazzlingly inventive guitarists working today, will perform his original solo-guitar score for the 1931 Spanish-language mutation of Dracula this…
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