Too bad for you if you don’t know Cindy Zimmerman. Her taxonomy would go Artist, Philosopher Queen, Creator of Worlds (also of our Hurdy Gurdy logo), Communal Glue. She makes beauty and truth out of images and words and symbols … Continued
If Richard Attenborough perfected the human crowd scene in all its facets (milling about, panic, violence, triumph) with the movie Ghandi, then Kornel Mundruczo has done the same for dogs in White God. I’m talking about real humans and real … Continued
A hotel without room service generally constitutes camping for me. But in preparing to travel to Connecticut for a writer’s conference, the airline fares and prospect of long layovers suddenly steeled my resolve to drive. And if I was driving, … Continued
I discovered the poet Seamus Heaney in grad school. Being mad for Irish lit, I should have unearthed him sooner, but I hadn’t outgrown Modernism yet, and for the Irish that meant Joyce, Beckett, Yeats, and O’Brien. At least for … Continued
I learned how to fold origami from the PBS show ZOOM. Produced in Boston, the show featured kids in striped rugby shirts running around, singing songs, telling awful jokes, teaching you their secret language Ubbi Dubbi, and showing you how … Continued
Chasing down a memory can lead to delightful places. I was thinking about the first concert I ever attended, Foreigner, and how I managed to get there. A new family had arrived at our church from California and had a … Continued
Courtney Love gives me the fantods. So while I was looking forward to seeing the Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, I knew there would have to be a Courtney reckoning. About a third of the way into the film, … Continued
Sitting in the back of my Honda Element, tailgate down, in the first throes of spring, the days when I feel being outside every moment will redeem the confinement of winter. I’ve spotted the first butterflies of the season, the … Continued
Molly Gene, aka One Whoaman Band, rocked the True/False Film Festival last year, so I was glad to see her in the lineup again. The Festival has always offered live music before each film, and the tradition has grown into … Continued
Here’s some news in case you wondered. It takes approximately ten minutes to learn everything occurring in any category of pop culture. I know this comes as a surprise to you, what with the millions of sites, blogs, tweets, shows, … Continued