Behind the Beat: Two of a Kind

Behind the Beat: Two of a Kind

Guitarist Adam Bosse’s initial idea for a band included three guitarists, two drummers, a bass player and horns. He ended up with one drummer, Eric Kenseth, period. End of story. And he’s okay with that. In fact, both Bosse and Kenseth are fine with the...

Non-Missionary Accomplished

Missionary can be cozy, comfortable and just the uncomplicated, satisfying position you need after a long workday. Even if you are feeling the universal sexual urge to “mix it up,” it can seem like Mission Impossible to get out of Missionary. Well, you...
Screen Windows

Screen Windows

Over the last few decades, the death knell of traditional moviegoing has been rung many times. Twenty-five years ago there was the VCR debate, when, at a heated Congressional hearing, film honcho Jack Valenti famously said that “the VCR is to the American film...

Not Julia or Julie

Unlike Julia Child, I was not motivated by the frustrating tedium of empty days in France. And unlike Julie Powell, I was not inspired by Julia Child. I was not moved to lift my whisk out of some insatiable desire to whip an egg into a yolky frenzy. Nor was I...

Art in Paradise: Celtic Thunderclouds

Maybe it means, to people who have made it through an episode of, say, Lie To Me, that I am a “geek,” but I don’t care: I’m a diehard PBS fan. I get six channels of television via antenna, and four of them are WGBY and variations. I...