It's a great pleasure to rediscover Lewis Carroll's classic in this modestly priced new Princeton University Press edition, with marvelous illustrations created by Salvador Dalí for a long out-of-print 1969 printing.
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Music Reviews: Indie Roundup – Wide-Ranging Americana from Holly Golightly, Stephen Young & the Union, Andy Hackbarth
These three new albums all fit loosely into the Americana category but are all very, very different. Two are from artists who aren't even (originally) from America.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Impulse Control When You Shop
Don't let marketing buzzwords and scarcity messaging urge you into impulse purchases this holiday season.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Radio Mystery 1949’ by Dennis Richard
The concept of an old-time live radio broadcast turning into a kind of reality show might ring bells for today's audience if it were handled cleverly, but 'Radio Mystery 1949' drops the ball.
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Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Rent’ by Jonathan Larson at the Harbor Lights Theater Company
I wondered if the hit musical from the AIDS-crisis era would seem dated in 2015, but this new talent-loaded Staten Island production shows that 'Rent' has become a perfectly valid period piece.
Read More »Music Review: The Zombies – ‘Still Got That Hunger’
We aren't likely to see their like again. So it's nice The Zombies with us again, at least for those who are tapped in to the music scene enough to find this fine new album, which reflects on the past but is no mere exercise in nostalgia, or catch the band on the road.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pillowman’ by Martin McDonagh
Directed with concise assurance by Greg Cicchino and acted with stark focus by a fine cast, this production of McDonagh's police-state black comedy confronts head-on the story's ferocious flaying of what we like to think of as the benevolent and rational sides of our nature.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Minimalism Can Pay Major Dividends
Slogans are as key as product names for marketing, and the shorter the sweeter, especially in the 140-character Twitter era. Sometimes advertisers hit the nail on the head. Other times they don't.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Getting It Right This Holiday Season
Ad agencies have copy editors who make sure the verbiage in their messages is correct. But when businesses do their own marketing, correct English and even correct spelling often go out the window.
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