Recent Articles in Reviews
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend @ Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, 2.20.09 and 2.21.09
The shows took place at the beginning and the end of the world, on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn at Glasslands, a windowless venue that we found to be at fire code capacity early on Friday night. This event began in May 2007, with this particular installment organized by Arthur Arbit (also King Gurvy) and Tom [...]
Joy Division (2007): DVD/Screening Review
This review is not about a rockumentary or film, or a fade-in caught on celluloid. These words, instead, are about a t-shirt that should have never existed. The film starts with collaged montages of Manchester and a voice over that declares (roughly): “This film is not about a band or a group of people, but a city that once created the greatest revolution of Western society, then came back and created a bigger revolution…”
NYLON Magazine with The Kills at Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 02.11.08
Dressed in an animal print shirt and roughed-up gold boots, Alison Mosshart (V.V.) of London band The Kills prowls the stage like a tigress in heat, while her partner in music (and against the world) Jamie Hince (Hotel) manically assaults his guitar. To call this duo “sexy” would be trivial, trite, even. To sum them [...]
I’m Not There: In Concert, Beacon Theatre 11.07.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Review
More proof that music is not possible without Bob Dylan came last week at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, where another set of industry heavy-hitters covered and re-interpreted yet more tracks from the D-man’s time-bending catalogue.
August: Osage County (on Broadway): Sentimentalist Magazine Review
Disfunctional families never cease to be prime theater subjects and the rural Oklahoman, wild Weston brood, as unleashed in Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County”, is no exception. At the hellish heart of this family sits the gleefully savage and sharp-tongued, pill-popping mother, Violet Weston.
