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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Film
Kage Baker’s Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen
Most of you most likely know Kage Baker as the writer of The Company series where immortal cyborgs gleaned treasures for their masters down the long years, but but did you know that she had a deep, loving interest in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film
Tagged Golden Era Hollywood, Movies, science fiction
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Richard Thompson Band’s Live At Celtic Connections (DVD)
The most recent incarnation of the Richard Thompson Band started its run with a string of nine or 10 shows along the West Coast of the U.S. in February of 2010. They played a set of 13 new songs that … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music
Tagged folk-rock, Richard Thompson
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Frank Zappa’s The Torture Never Stops (DVD)
If, like me, you never saw Frank Zappa live with one of his fabulous bands, this DVD release from Eagle Rock is a great way to see what you missed. Or even if you did witness the madness before Zappa … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music
Tagged rock and roll
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Jean Cocteau and Philip Glass, La Belle et la Bête
We hear a lot about the “magic of the silver screen” (although I confess we seem to have left magic behind for a kind of gritty realism — the “magic” has turned dark and somewhat morbid). It’s nice to haul … Continue reading
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John Carpenter’s Halloween and Halloween II
Sheriff Brackett: Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted. Dr. Sam Loomis: They may be right. When I was a kid, there was an old cabin in the woods outside my elementary school. Everyone said the cabin had … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Film Franchises, Horror films, John Carpenter
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James Cameron’s Avatar
Joseph Thompson submitted this review. Good storytellers are gardeners. They take the seed of an idea and plant it within the mulch of their life experience. After a season of drafts and rewrites, the fruit of their labor is harvested … Continue reading
Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf
I’m going to try an experiment. I’m going to write this review freeform while I watch it. We’re going to call this one Beowolf: a Realtime Review by Camille Alexa. None of that namby-pamby “wait to digest the entire thing … Continue reading
MusiCares Presents: A Tribute to Brian Wilson
Just before the 2005 Grammy Awards a “star-studded gala took place in Los Angeles.” It was the MusiCares 2005 Person of the Year Awards, and the winner was Brian Wilson. Beach Boy extraordinaire, composer of the surf and hot-rod songs … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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BBC’s The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
We watch almost nothing on so-called network television these days. Oh, the local news is watched, but that’s it. Now partly that’s because the premium networks such as HBO are where the really good stuff is, such as Carnivàle and … Continue reading
Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Candy Man The Candy Man can The Candy Man can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good – “The Candy Man,” from Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory I can’t remember a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature
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