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Song of the Year (2013): San Fermin’s Sonsick
It is difficult to reproduce Sonsick live. Listening to the several live, YouTubed versions of the song, I’d say the band is batting about three or four out of five, but probably closer to three. Then there was the essentially … Continue reading Song of the Year (2013): San Fermin’s Sonsick
Nathan Sawaya: The Brick Artist
Nathan Sawaya was a New York lawyer who gave it up ten years ago to sculpt in Lego. Continue reading Nathan Sawaya: The Brick Artist
Such a Muppet: Good Luck JF
It’s hard to view Friday night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as a true farewell, since all Fallon is doing is getting the ultimate promotion to The Tonight Show. And he’s taking everybody with him. And yet it is an … Continue reading Such a Muppet: Good Luck JF
Phil
“So it’s in that spirit that I’d like to say this: Phil Hoffman, this kind, decent, magnificent, thunderous actor, who was never outwardly “right” for any role but who completely dominated the real estate upon which every one of his characters walked, did not die from an overdose of heroin — he died from heroin. We should stop implying that if he’d just taken the proper amount then everything would have been fine. He didn’t die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed — he died because he was an addict on a day of the … Continue reading Phil
Women We Love: Kristen Bell’s Jeannie Van Der Hooven
Totally Biased: Extended interview with Don Cheadle
Relaunch — Part II
The Young White Faces of Slavery
37 Life Lessons in 37 Years | Dawn Gluskin
Happiness comes from within. We spend way too much of our lives looking for outside validation and approval that eludes us. Turns out, it’s been an inside job all along. Go inward. Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. The pleasure, the pain — it’s all part of our path. Subtle shifts in perception will transform your entire life. When feeling fearful, angry, hurt, simply choose to see a situation differently. In being true to yourself, you can’t possibly make everybody else happy. Still, it’s better to risk being disliked … Continue reading 37 Life Lessons in 37 Years | Dawn Gluskin
Something un-Learned
Cowgirls: All Fall Down
Once
At the end of the last song, which ended the show, Zrinka Cvitesic had to turn her back to the audience, taking a moment to compose herself. No need. So were we. Continue reading Once
Women we Love: Michelle Obama
Half Full
Zwelethu Mthethwa’s ‘Brave Ones’
“Marc Jacobs, eat your heart out. The young Zulu men pictured in new photographs by the South African portraitist Zwelethu Mthethwa are all wearing kilts of the sort that Jacobs favors — except theirs are solid black or pink-and-white gingham and they’re not just making a fashion statement. These men are dressed for church. “The kilts, combined with white, fringed-hem blouses, long emerald-green ribbon ties, soccer-player knee-highs, steel-tipped boots and fluffy pompom headbands, are customary male drag for the monthlong ceremonial retreats that the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe, stages twice a year near Durban, Mthethwa’s hometown. “’I was intrigued … Continue reading Zwelethu Mthethwa’s ‘Brave Ones’
This is the way we . . . bounce
Relaunch (Soft Opening)
Urging a New Revolution
You could not be faulted reaching the conclusion that William Broad is trying to sell books. Just before publication of his The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards, Broad unleashed a controversial article on the injuries suffered by yoga students which he soon followed with a provocative expose on the long history of sexual improprieties involving those at the sacred summit of yogadom. Published in the pages of Broad’s longtime employer, The New York Times, these articles have shaken yoga’s foundation. Some 737 people left comments on his first article before the NYT closed the spigot. They did not allow comments on the second. … Continue reading Urging a New Revolution
Sense and Nonsense 