Alex Nackman crafts shimmery, hooky songs; The Handcuffs combine 80's new wave with 00's crunch on their catchy, highly appealing tracks.
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Book Review: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
Always playing, Ashbery writes inexplicable sentences in utterly graceful English.
Read More »Music DVD Review: Fairport Convention: Maidstone 1970
An interesting but minor addition to the historical record of the British folk-pop movement.
Read More »Christina Ricci Goes Prosthetic in New Screen Fable Penelope
This new fairytale movie starring Christina Ricci is a feel-good flick with a twist.
Read More »Music Review: Idina Menzel – I Stand
The Broadway star needs a collaborator who's hungry to succeed, not Glen Ballard.
Read More »Theater Review (Brooklyn, NY): Macbeth with Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart and Rupert Goold's Macbeth has top-notch acting, of course, but also flair and humor and bonechilling thrills.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Play About the Naked Guy
It spoofs Off-Broadway and the gay club scene, yet it's a delicious entertainment for everyone.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – No Girls Allowed Edition
Steve Northeast crafts energetic and emotional hard rock songs loaded with raspy guitars and cataclysmic rhythms.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Conjur Woman – A Folk Opera
A harrowing trip into the heart of darkness courtesy of a bag of charms, a rope, and Shelia Dabney's worldly-dark voice.
Read More »Theater Review (Bronx, NY): Agnes of God
The ghost of America circa 1979 retains its power to haunt.
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