I should never have gone,” moans Hosanna as she bolts into her darkened apartment at the outset of the play that bears her name. Distraught and out of breath, she […]
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Clean Water Act
Tuneful folk-rock with galloping backbeats and ajazzy feel, the music of Emmet Swimming recalls early Del Amitri or pre-psychedelic Lilac Time. Singer/guitarist/lyricist Todd Watts can overemote at times—song titles like […]
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Songs From the Cutting Room
Without the budget to record a new album, Tommy Keene has been dining out on his back catalog. First came a collection of demos, Sleeping on a Rollercoaster, released last […]
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Rai Festival
SEPTEMBER 5 Algerian fundamentalists probably haven’t heard of either “Louie, Louie” or Luther Campbell, but they do know—and disapprove of—rai, the music that developed in Oran and spread during the […]
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The Earrings of Madame de…
OPENING SEPTEMBER 3 Elegant and old-fashioned (or perhaps elegantly old-fashioned), The Earrings of Madame de… was first released in 1953, when such extravagantly appointed costume dramas were losing their appeal. […]
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Image Murkers
In the beginning was the image. It was “the word,” of course, in the original, but then originals don’t matter anymore, haven’t for decades. Walter Benjamin knew that in the […]
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Downed Democrats
AS ONE OF THE MEMbers purged from the national board of Americans/Youth for Democratic Action at the recent ADA/YDA convention, I have been disheartened and chagrined by Loose Lips’ series […]
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Hard Times for Hardware
IN “STREETSCAPE” (8/27) the loss of M.L. Hardware was referred to in the future tense. M.L. has been closed since early last spring. I went there one day, everything fine—next […]
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Binge. Purge.
IT IS TEMPTING TO REspond to the fabrications and fantasies of those involved in the purge of the Progressive Caucus from Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) as outlined in last […]