Norwegian producer and songwriter Lido (known for his work with Chance the Rapper, Halsey, ASAP Ferg) leaves the crowd in San Francisco absolutely breathless after the first night of the must see 'Everything' Tour, taking place in unique and beautiful spaces across the U.S.
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Book Review: ‘And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer’ by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's 'And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer': "It turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth."
Read More »Concert Review: PUBLIQuartet – ‘The New Baroque’ at the Met Cloisters (NYC, 11/5/2016)
The members of this adventurous quartet proved themselves masters of tonal variation, broad technique, and compositional creativity in a fascinating program that transformed and adapted Bach and Haydn and presented modern works that nod to the Baroque.
Read More »Hamptons FF and DOC NYC Review: ‘Bunker77’ Exec Producer Ed Norton
Surfing has become a profitable, competitive sport. For Bunker Spreckels it was a passion that laughed in the face of death.
Read More »Why a Write-In Vote for President Is Not a Wasted Vote
Your write-in vote is not just one small step calling for change in this election but a giant leap for redefining democracy in America.
Read More »Music Review: Katie Melua’s ‘In Winter’ Is a Captivating Journey
One could view 'In Winter' as a stylish stopgap between Melua's last recording 'Ketevan' and her next album. However, one should embrace it as an inspired seasonal concept album that ties 'The House' as her most ambitious undertaking yet.
Read More »Music Review: Leigh Pilzer – ‘Strunkin’
'Strunkin'' is straight-ahead jazz at its finest, recalling the sophisticated musings from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.
Read More »Hamptons International Film Festival 2016: The Award-Winning ‘Unlocking The Cage’
Are chimpanzees sentient beings deserving of legal personhood?
Read More »Language Matters: Rescuing Dying Languages
Money and genius grants can't revive the hundreds of languages native to the Americas that have died out over the last few centuries.
Read More »Interview: Hannah Kohler, Author of ‘The Outside Lands’
"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."
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