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Note from a reader
Dear readers: I’ve decided to introduce a new feature, featuring some of the e-mail that I get to my website. Let me know what you think. On Saturday I wrote a column for the...
Laura Poitras’ Film “Risk”
It’s not often that a movie becomes more timely the week it’s released, but that is the case for the new Laura Poitras film “Risk.” Poitras also made the Oscar winning film “Citizenfour,” about...
Zidruns: carrying the unbearable
As one of the foreign observers of the Latvian rock scene I’m always delighted when I find something super fresh on a Latvian label. After all, it’s far from both the tail-chasing navel-gazing American...
Austin City Limits: Snapshots from the cheap-ish seats
Since my column last fall on the Austin City Limits Music Festival left quite an impression, I thought it would be good to share some of the pictures that I took of my experience...
Ken Burns Documentary on Jackie Robinson (on PBS)
In honor of Ken Burns Jackie Robinson documentary showing on PBS tonight and tomorrow night, we have some pictures of the SXSW panel “Race in America with Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates” where they...
Super Cool Video From The Church..and some SXSW Pictures!
Above you’ll note some pictures from the SXSW 2015 Music Interview with seminal 80s Australian band The Church. If you are into all things musically swirly and lyrical–with fitting visuals–you’ll want to check out...
A Vinyl Bonus: The Neon Boys
As a bonus of watching the pilot of the new television series Vinyl, the recap over at Vulture brought up the Neon Boys. I now love The Neon Boys! I suspect I heard them...
Life on Mars on GIRLS
If you’ve been watching Lena Dunham‘s show GIRLS, you may have heard a haunting cover of Life on Mars that lingered over the end credits as Shoshanna walked down a lonely street in Japan. This is...
Today’s Column on More Diversity in People *Acting* in Tech Roles
If you missed it, you can read today’s Statesman column “Hanks: More women, minorities needed for tech roles on screen” here.
