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The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
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Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
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Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
July 26, 2026The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 21, 2026For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
June 28, 2026Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
June 15, 2026Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
June 5, 2026And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...




