Saturday, May 16, 2015

Film Review: 'Force Majeure' Coolly Metafizzical...

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Swedish movies are known for their brooding interiors, but brooding exteriors? Now there's fresh food for thought, a thought experim...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Remember 2014? Remember 'The Interview'?

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The year 2014 had to be one of the weirdest years ever, politically and socially, almost unbelievable even months later. First (but not ...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Tucson's Hypertravel Hostel Proudly Supports Public Radio KXCI! (not Jay Z, just sayin')...

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Is the new celebrity-studded 'Tidal' subscription music service, supported by the likes of Jay Z, Madonna, Beyonce and music...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Globalquerque! Rockin' in the Free World...

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Los Texmaniacs Music festivals are one of my favorite things in the entire world, 'world' music especially, music originatin...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Pickamania in Silver City, NM: Bluegrass Music Grows Up

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Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys My first experience with a bluegrass festival was way back in 1974, together with my buddy Emmett C...
Friday, August 30, 2013

SHARQ TARONALARI Music Fest in Samarkand: Great Music & People, Too Many Babies & Police

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I guess I’m a sucker for spectacle.   I’ve been known to watch the Olympics opening ceremonies (just leave out the smoke machines, please),...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

The End is Near: Get it While the Getting’s Good…

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It had to happen sooner or later, of course, that the summer would end, and that life would resume its typical humdrum course of ‘norma...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Hollywood Babel On: Summer Winding Down? No, It’s Just Getting Hotter…

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It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.   It is Rome before the Fall.   It is the last cabaret in Berlin .   The Emperor sip...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Hollywood Babel On: Diaspora Blues

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Days like today are what you live for if you’re a fan of world music and/or a reluctant Angeleno, hoping to justify your existence, or a...
Friday, August 02, 2013

HOLLY WOOD BABEL: Peruano, Africano, Colombiano, Angeleno… Novalima, guey

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Did you know that Peru had Africans?  If you’ve heard (of) Susana Baca, then you did; or should, anyway.  They’ve been there since the...