Oh sorry, whatever your song is called." Ouch. Regardless, "Given to Fly" has gone on to become one of Pearl Jam's setlist staples. Like U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name," it always elevates the energy level of both the audience and the band. Radio responded positively to the...
Ricki not only curated the RetroBlakesberg Instagram but also developed the concept of showcasing only my film work. This idea evolved into a coffee table book, RetroBlakesberg, and then into a museum exhibit by the same name. The first RetroBlakesberg exhibit was held at the Morris Museum...
George. Their music is heavily guitar-based with nouveau punk vocals, slick instrumental production that pays homage to the 70s DIY sound without quite emulating it, and enough harmonic complexity to set up and execute some brilliant hooks. There’s really nothing to dislike here, and there’s...
With All Around Town, a farce directed by Dustin Hoffman and Terrence McNally’s The Ritz, she had two hits under her name and was brimming with confidence. “I have three college degrees, and I know if something is good,” she told The New York Times. Talk like that would make even...
I was a college student in my junior year at a no-name public university, at the time of the fall of the South Vietnamese in 1975. My adolescent years had been haunted by the ongoing war in Vietnam, a war painted in the most horrific colors by the then-extent national media. I ...
“My father is not a household name like Siegel, partly because he wore a disguise, a veneer of respectability that fooled most. It did not fool the government. “When I was exposed to the truth by way of a book, I kept the secret, too. I was 13. My parents divorced, and five ...
. After this, or more to the point, as a result of this we hear the improbable yet inevitable-seeming instrumental recitativo, coming from the ground up, through the most lowly, workaday voice in the orchestral division of labor, the double basses. So, taking stock of what makes just ...
A lovely scene unfolds as you hobble towards the bay and first lay your eyes uponOtaru Canal, the heart of the city’s historical quarter. The canal was instrumental in Otaru’s trading industry, allowing the inland warehouses to get their goods from the main port. ...
They don't tell when they are being mistreated. And the offenders don't turn themselves in as instrumental for whatever reason. As Leonce Picot became an old and weak bully, his daughter Laura Picot, and her daughters followed in his footsteps, bilking him to nothingness with their demands...
Things took a turn when he officially changed his stage name to Kendrick Lamar in 2009, distancing himself from the winding freestyles of his K.Dot tapes: “I’m mature now,” he explained.“I want people to know that I’m an actual artist that does music.” On the Kendrick Lamar EP...