Strawbs is on tour with their classic early 1970s lineup.
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Music Review: Swamp Cabbage – Squeal
Rootsy, southern-fried blues doesn't come much more boggy than this.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Three on a Couch by Carl Djerassi
A nervous shrink, a devilish plot, revenge, and a mango fuel the American premiere of Carl Djerassi's dark comedy.
Read More »John McCain: A Man Without Principle
John McCain has gone back on his positions on every issue on which his national reputation had rested.
Read More »Music Review: John Mayall – Live at the Marquee and The Masters
Two re-releases document the influential British bluesman's creative reinvention in 1969.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Standing Clear
The show's creators use subway vignettes to make us look closely at ourselves - and to laugh at what we see.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Stone Coyotes, Bloom, Preston, Sugar Blue
The Stone Coyotes' stark naturalness is what makes them so good.
Read More »Theater/Dance Review (Brooklyn NY): The Judgment of Paris by Austin McCormick and Company XIV
This dazzling new dance-theater piece incorporates elements of pre-ballet Baroque dance.
Read More »So You Think John McCain Can’t Dance?
"Straight-talker" McCain is as cynical and conniving a political animal as any of them, and better at it than most.
Read More »Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects.
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