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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Autumn is Here (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters
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- What’s New for July 21st: All music — books on The Pogues, Sandy Denny, Lowell George, Zappa, and more; Cajun mardi gras on film; and Cajun, zydeco, and klemer related music
- A Kinrowan Estate Stoty: A Guest Lecturer
- What’s New for the 7th of July: A Passel of Roger Zelazny Reviews, A Write-up of an Irish Pub, Two Pieces of Live Music by Rosanne Cash, Where Irish Coffee Originated, Irish (and a Little Welsh) Music of a Modern Sort
- A Travels Abroad story: Truly Shitty Celtic Metal
- What’s New for the 23rd of June: A special edition for the Solstice, Wales in literature and music, and yes, in film.
- A Kinrowan Story: The Oak King
- What’s New for the 9th of June: Some beach reads — dark fantasy, superhero romance, comic fantasy and teen aliens; Finnish fiddles, Swedish-American jazz, and an Earl Scruggs tribute, and a grab bag of archival music; glam rock on film; an Alan Moore tribute
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Chasing Fireflies
- What’s New for the 26th of May: Taza Chocolate, June Tabor live (twice), music books, remembering a beloved Irish singer, a beloved Canadian singer, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate Tale: A Restless Queen
- What’s New for the 12th of May: a Terry Pratchett edition: Discworld and other worlds, adult fantasy, YA stories, and lit-crit; new Karelian, Canadian and Big Band music; and Smithfield Fair from the archives
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Category Archives: Film
Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story
[The town of Hammond, Indiana, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of this movie next weekend, December 16-17, 2023, with a gathering called “Ralphie and the Gang Come Home.”] Tim Hoke wrote this review. Based on stories by Jean Shepherd, A … Continue reading
Acorn Media’s Slings & Arrows Season 3
The Chicago Tribune exclaims, “[Slings & Arrows] can make you both LAUGH and CRY… don’t miss it.” And having just finished watching all six episodes of the third and final season of this extraordinary Canadian production, I have to admit … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian television, Shakeapeare, television comedy
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Acorn Media’s Slings & Arrows, Season 2
The first season of Slings & Arrows told the story of the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival, a Canadian theatre company not unlike Ontario’s Stratford Festival. The season was entertaining, funny, and actually pretty sexy as the new artistic director (played … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian TV, Shakespeare, television comedy
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Acorn Media’s Slings & Arrows Season 1
There are raves all over the cover of this DVD set. The New York Times calls Slings & Arrows “charming, complex, lively.” Newsday says “funny, romantic, sweet, thrilling.” And on it goes. Until I watched this DVD set I had … Continue reading
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Tagged canadian, Shakespeare, television comedy
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FX’s Sons of Anarchy, Season One
We must have seen a promo for this show on some cable TV station a few months ago. I remember that Ron Perlman was in the clip, looking very nasty in black leather and smoking a fat cigar that would … Continue reading
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and its sequels, prequels and remakes: Psycho II, Psycho III, Bates Motel, Psycho IV: The Beginning, and Psycho
Psycho, the 1960 film by Alfred Hitchcock from the novel by Robert Bloch (which was in turn based on the life of Ed Gein, also the inspiration for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs), is such … Continue reading
Johnny Cash’s At San Quentin
In the late 1960s, Johnny Cash was on a roll. He was finally getting his life together after a disastrous decade of drug abuse which led to lots of legal problems, a divorce and a growing reputation as an erratic … Continue reading
Various artists’ The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show, 1969-1971
American musicians always have, for the most part, understood that the various categories of American music are mostly imaginary. They’re marketing tools drawn up by those in the business of selling music to the public, and they cater mostly to … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music, rock and roll, soul music
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PBS’s Seaside Hotel (Badehotellet)
Earlier this year my household found itself without a television series to stream, having finished the available seasons of all the shows we were watching. Some friends recommended Seaside Hotel on PBS and our tastes usually agree, so we gave … Continue reading
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Tagged Denmark, miniseries, television comedy, television drama
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Dominic Minghella’s Doc Martin, Series 2
Doctor Martin Ellingham made his first appearance as a minor character in the film Saving Grace (his name was Dr. Martin Bamford then, always portrayed by Martin Clunes). Sky Pictures made two “prequel” television films which took the successful doctor … Continue reading
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