We weren’t expecting a New York screening of a film about a Chinese dancer to be a heavily Australian event, but that’s what Monday night’s special showing of Mao’s Last Dancer at the Crosby Street Hotel was-its director, Bruce Beresford, is an Aussie, and the screening was presented by Australian Consul General Phillip Scanlan. The Read More
Hillary aide and part-time music critic Howard Wolfson‘s annual top ten album list is online here.
No word on what the junior Senator’s been listening too, but Wolfson likes Sleater-Kinney‘s new album. The banded started in “a space where women could make the personal political with a snarl…. Ten years later, Sleater-Kinney Read More
Since, these days, even technophobes can get a sneak peek of new albums, release dates have become as irrelevant as the sticker price of a used car: a good place to start, but never set in stone. That said, the next three months appear to offer an eclectic melange of music, so get your peer-to-peer Read More
A trustworthy rule of thumb: Critics should never write critically about other critics. Not only does this make a certain career sense, but one falls into the Pauline Kael-esque trap of assigning straw-man motivations to one’s nemeses in order to score points with larger issues that may or may not apply to the work being Read More
