by Dan Metz | Sep 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Poster courtesy of HBO I was ten years old on September 11th, 2001. It was a big day of firsts for me. It was, for example, the first time that I experienced a feeling of unreality surrounding an unbelievable moment. I was, however, very young and 130 miles away,...
by Dan Metz | Aug 31, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
I’m Leaving Now Four hundred years ago we were introduced to Don Quixote, an adventurer who fled the mundane world for imagined battles with wizards and giants. From the opening of “I’m Leaving Now,” it is clear that directors Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda...
by Alice Teeple | Aug 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Fire, to destroy all you’ve done. Fire, to end all you’ve become. The Amazon is ablaze, the West Village is so thick with humidity you can practically chew the air. The time is ripe for those queued outside Le Poisson Rouge to descend underground, and bear...
by Alice Teeple | Aug 24, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Natalie Clark By Alice Teeple Scene: Hot August night, secret location in SoHo. A hundred people sit on the floor, eagerly awaiting the show. A petite, raven-haired woman enters the room with a merry wave and vermillion red smile. She thumps her guitar,...
by Dan Metz | Aug 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
Blixa Bargeld and FM Einheit of German band Einstürzende Neubauten, performing at an event in the Mojave Desert. Photo credit: Fredrik NIlsen (1984) The story of punk rock in the US reads a bit like the story of jazz: a time of musical experimentation where even...