August 6, 2012 Archive

Music

• Music Review: Jimmy Mulidore - Jazz For the Ages

  Multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Mulidore releases Jazz For the New Age.

  Review in Music — by Jack Goodstein — on Aug 06, 2012

• Music Review: Can - The Lost Tapes

  Overlooked tapes from an overlooked band offer a deep look into the creative process.

  Review in Music — by Eric R Schiller — on Aug 06, 2012

• Music Review: The Tokens - It's A Happening World

  The Tokens most unique album returns to the limelight.

  Review in Music — by David Bowling — on Aug 06, 2012

• Music Review: Various Artists - We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash [DVD+CD]

  There's no one person in popular music today who can connect to as diverse a cross section of the population as Cash could.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Aug 06, 2012

Video

• Blu-ray Review: Best Laid Plans (2012)

  The cage fighting adaptation of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men you've been waiting for.

  Review in Video — by Luigi Bastardo — on Aug 06, 2012

• DVD Review: The Gold Rush (1925) - The Criterion Collection

  Criterion lends its magic touch on yet another Charlie Chaplin classic.

  Review in Video — by Luigi Bastardo — on Aug 06, 2012

• Blu-ray Review: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

  An impressive endeavor by the cast and crew.

  Review in Video — by Gordon S. Miller — on Aug 06, 2012

• Blu-ray Review: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

  This version of the story may have the whimsy of Seuss' visuals, but lacks the weight of the tale.

  Review in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Aug 06, 2012

• Blu-ray Review: Blue Like Jazz

  A film with a lot going for it. I only wish I could recommend it as much as the book.

  Review in Video — by David R Perry — on Aug 06, 2012

Books

• Book Review: Writing Movies For Fun and Profit by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon

  A humorous dose of reality about what it's really like for a screenwriter in the Hollywood trenches.

  Review in Books — by Sherry Lipp — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: Medleys from Broadway: Intermediate to Late Intermediate (Dan Coates Popular Piano Library)

  Medleys from Broadway provides smooth and professional-sounding medleys from six well-known and beloved Broadway shows for intermediate pianists.

  Review in Books — by Rhetta Akamatsu — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: Toxic Relationship by Richard Hacker

  "Sex, murder and toxic waste: nowhere else but Texas."

  Review in Books — by Paige Lovitt — on Aug 06, 2012

• Interview: Meet Author Sands Hetherington, Author of Night Buddies, A Lights Out Adventure Series for Kids

  Night Buddies is an astonishing and inventive adventure with unforgettable cast of characters that will make you laugh and win over your heart.

  Interview in Books — by VS Grenier — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: My Brave Haitian Family: Before and After Father’s Execution by Robert Monestime

  A heartbreaking story of living in a beautiful, but very poor country, and under the rule of a cruel and despotic dictator forever changed anybody’s life.

  Review in Books — by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: London: Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden

  This lavish tome celebrates the great capital and also serves as a handsome introduction to the history of British photography.

  Review in Books — by Pat Padua — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: The Turtle Who Imagined by Mary Esparza-Vela

  A timely book that teaches young and old about self-acceptance.

  Review in Books — by Nicole Weaver — on Aug 06, 2012

• Interview: Chris Reynolds, Author of Mind Secrets

  “The title took—and I’m not kidding—weeks of thinking and scribbling notes on pieces of paper and asking my friends and doing more thinking and scribbling…”

  Interview in Books — by April Pohren — on Aug 06, 2012

• Book Review: The Big Book Of Dan: Road Alligators And Other Incongruous Possibilities by Daniel C. Dulik

  A collection of humorous short stories, poems, and essays examining life from Daniel Dulik's unique perspective.

  Review in Books — by Debbie Friend — on Aug 06, 2012

• Interview with S.M. Blooding, Author of The Hands of Tarot

  How did S.M. Blooding come up with the title of her latest book? Find out the explosive answer to this, and much more in this interview.

  Interview in Books — by Tracee Gleichner — on Aug 06, 2012

Politics

• Turning the Tables on Tax Records

  Is Mitt Romney setting the president up?

  Opinion in Politics — by The Obnoxious American — on Aug 06, 2012

Culture

• Theater Review (Seattle): The Dumb Waiter and Celebration by Harold Pinter at ACT Theatre

  Two one-act plays from opposite ends of Harold Pinter's career are given impressive stagings.

  Review in Culture — by Dusty Somers — on Aug 06, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): Marilyn: Forever Blonde by Greg Thompson at the El Portal

  Sunny Thomspon is a terrific Marilyn Monroe.

  Review in Culture — by Robert Machray — on Aug 06, 2012

• Sikh Temple Shooting: Who Are the Sikhs?

  As we await information about the shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, we examine some fundamentals of the Sikh faith.

  News in Culture — by John Lake — on Aug 06, 2012