Green wasn’t my favorite R.E.M. album when it was first released way back in 1988, and to be perfectly honest, it still isn’t. Not by a longshot. But it was definitely a turning point, both in terms of where they were headed creatively, and certainly – pardon the expression, here …
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Concert Review: Primus – Fox Theater, Pomona, CA, 5/19/13
The audience got “Beaver,” which thrilled them to no end.
Read More »DVD Review: Teen Wolf Season Two
This batch continues the story started in season one, and takes things to a new level.
Read More »Book Review: The World’s Rarest Birds by Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swish, and Robert Still
In our ever photographic world, where satellite technology can reproduce an image from anywhere on the planet, and cell phone cameras are as plentiful as pocket change, it is hard to imagine any mundane image not captured by the lens of a camera. In the huge and exhaustive new book The World’s …
Read More »Music Review: Billy Talbot – On the Road to Spearfish
On the Road to Spearfish is meant to take you to a place where time has minimal meaning but where there's something almost mystical about its drawing power.
Read More »Music DVD Review: The Moody Blues – Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970; Live at Montreux 1991
If you're old enough to have attended the Isle of Wight Festival, or any other Moody Blues concert of the time, and you're willing to forgive a really rough and ready sound, by all means spend Tuesday afternoon, or any other, back in an era when live meant live.
Read More »Music Review: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Playlist: The Very Best of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Move over Michael Bolton, Southside Johnny was here first.
Read More »Blu-Ray Review: The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary (Mean Streets/ The Untouchables/ GoodFellas/ Heat/ The Departed
One of the most durable genres in the history of film is the so-called “gangster” flick. They have been with us since (at least) D.W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), and will probably be around forever. Although all of the major studios have produced these types of pictures, …
Read More »Music DVD Review: Judas Priest – Epitaph
On this career-spanning concert DVD, Judas Priest triumphantly display that its innovative brand of heavy metal music has stood the test of time (40 years and counting) and remains vital today.
Read More »Book Review: Skios by Michael Frayne
Having written what may well be the finest and certainly the funniest theatrical farce of the last half of the 20th Century, Noises Off, Michael Frayne has now gone and done the same for the novel. Skios may not have the slamming doors, but even without them it is one …
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