Diamonds and Rust

Diamonds and Rust

by | Jul 23, 2009 | Music

Though Joan Baez has lived all over the world, she got her start in music by busking in Boston when she was a teenager. Soon after, she gave her first serious public performance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Fifty years later, she's coming...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jul 23, 2009 | Music

Bat for LashesTwo Suns(Astralwerks)Bat for Lashes' second album has a split personality. On the one hand, Two Suns features songs brimming with unexpected stylistic juxtapositions. The melodramatic "Glass" successfully combines operatic vocals, tribal...
CinemaDope: Deep Space

CinemaDope: Deep Space

by | Jul 23, 2009 | Film

MoonDirected by Duncan Jones. Written by Nathan Parker, based on a story by Duncan Jones. With Sam Rockwell, Matt Berry, Robin Chalk, Dominique McElligott, and Kevin Spacey. (R)Somewhere between The Twilight Zone and today, sci-fi became the province of action films,...
Locavore: What Our Ancestors Ate

Locavore: What Our Ancestors Ate

by | Jul 23, 2009 | Food + Booze

Mark Kurlansky wrote Salt: A World History; 1968: The Year that Rocked the World; and Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. His latest effort is a compendium of essays on regional food written by real people in real time. Food of a Younger Land is a...

Art in Paradise: Another Face

by | Jul 23, 2009 | Arts

In 1977, I was watching Star Trek when the news that Elvis had died scrolled across the bottom of the screen. When Michael Jackson died, I was in a hotel in Detroit. Everywhere for the next few days, screens lit up with the news, then with endless re-runnings of brief...