here puppy, puppy I’m surprisingly OK with the upscaling/gourmandizing/Starbucking of the hot dog. Because once we get through lauding the foie dog, the salmon dog, the wasabi coated tuna dog, the kobe dog, the tofu dog or whatever they decide to come up with, there will be a backlash. All of a sudden classic hot … Read more
I don’t know… what’s going on today? It’s raining. Dave Barry‘s in town. Corey Flintoff, too. At the Nomad: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin–which is a great band name! Anyone read that profile of former president Clinton in last week’s New Yorker? Turns out, Clinton loves Yeltsin, too. In any case, I heard ’em … Read more
There are such beautiful stories tucked away in even the quietest, most settled lives. Maybe people today don’t have the kind of access to memory that folks seemed to have in previous generations. The whiz-bangery of this world crowds out the wonder, and makes it hard to have, or recognize, singular experiences for what they … Read more
What I’d do this weekend if I wasn’t going to the North Shore (I go begrudgingly… its hard to pull me away from the city I love in the thick of fall arts season): Kid Dakota at the Turf, Lit 6 at the Ritz, Osmo at Harreit. Oh, and I’m ‘sposed to say there’s going … Read more
Winchester ’73, 1950. Directed by Anthony Mann, written by Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards. Starring James Stewart, Millard Mitchell (guy looks just like my Grandpa Schilling), Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, John McIntire and both Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis in small, unrecognizable roles. Note: Circumstances prevented me from attending last evening’s Blue … Read more
He said: This is a disappearing act for the ages, with a little of that all-the-king’s-horses-and-all-the-king’s-men business thrown in for good measure –although I should say that it never struck me as particularly surprising that horses wouldn’t be much good at putting things back together, lacking as they do opposable thumbs, not to mention hands. … Read more
The Soap Factory’s 99 sale/fundraiser is tonight…. The basic rundown is this: The gallery’s putting up a bunch of 5 x 7 (as in, inches… INCHES!) original works–some by famous artists, some by regular enough folks (with cool jobs). But you’ll never know unless you buy something.
Here’s a cool night for you: wander through the Soap Factory’s amazing 99 dollar sale and then, around 8:30, head on out for that masterpiece of paranoia, The Parallax View, part of Take-Up Productions and S.F.’s “You Were Never Here” autumn film series. I’m not DeSmith, but I’ll put in a plug for the art … Read more
A night for Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” for roast beef sandwiches with horseradish, for wrenching squalls, for geese sailing across the sky, for the tired old monkey business with the flag and the usual recrimination, for the bowed back and the metaphoric broken teeth. What do you take me for, a leader? I am only … Read more
For those film-loving homebodies too tired to go out on a Wednesday night: American Masters profiles the inimitable Preston Sturges. Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer shows tonight on TPT Channel 2 at 9:00. If you recall, the Walker screened two of his films, The Lady Eve and Sullivan’s Travels, in … Read more