Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
March 29, 2024Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
March 26, 2024This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
March 15, 2024Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
March 9, 2024A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
February 27, 2024The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Book Review: Chords of Strength by David Archuleta
February 18, 2024It's no surprise that David has musical talent in his DNA. His father is a jazz...
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
February 8, 2024Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
February 7, 2024Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
February 5, 2024For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....