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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Film
Gary Ross’s Pleasantville
Lenora Rose wrote this review. The premise of Pleasantville is fairly straightforward. Teenage twins David and Jennifer are magically transported into the actual black and white world of the TV show Pleasantville, taking the place of TV twins Bud and … Continue reading
Thames Television’s The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
I said this in reviewing the first season of Van der Valk: In this household, we watch a lot of mystery series: U.S. (such as CSI: Miami and Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Canadian (Murdoch Mysteries and Intelligence are but … Continue reading
Thames Television’s Van der Valk: Series One
In this household, we watch a lot of mystery series: U.S. (such as CSI: Miami and Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Canadian (Murdoch Mysteries and Intelligence are but two that come to mind), and U.K. (the main fare of our … Continue reading
BBC’s I, Claudius; and The Epic That Never Was
Craig Clarke wrote this review. Based on two novels by Robert Graves, the BBC’s I, Claudius was a groundbreaking miniseries, and is still today considered by some to be the totem by which all other miniseries are measured. It stars … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged ancient history, BBC, history, Roman Empire
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Jonathan Liebesman’s Darkness Falls
Asher Black wrote this review. Hush little baby, don’t say a word And never mind that noise you heard It’s just the beast under your bed, In your closet, in your head. – Metallica Look under the bed, check the … Continue reading
Jim Croce’s Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live, and Home Recordings: Americana
Jim Croce is one of those artists who slipped off the radar. He was once highly thought of, a star in fact – gold records, No. 1 hits, albums on the best-seller lists. Then mentioned in rock’n’roll death contests, and … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music
Tagged Americana music, rock and roll, Singer-Songwriter
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Danny Boyle’x 28 Days Later
Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. It takes less than a second for a person’s life to hit free-fall, the point at which death is imminent and inevitable. A dropped CD distracting you from the freeway ahead, a step forward … Continue reading
Philip Saville’s Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Andrea S. Garrett wrote this review. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale is a made for cable production specifically created for the Hallmark Channel. I can think of very few good things to say about this movie. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged fairy tales, nonfiction
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DeZ Vylenz’s The Mindscape of Alan Moore
Filmed in 2003, this 78 minute film consists of a one-on-one interview with comic creator Alan Moore, best known for works like From Hell, Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Although Moore does touch on his past and his comic career, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, documentary
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Stephen Gammond’s Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists
Woody Guthrie was truly a legend in his own time. Nearly 40 years after his untimely death, the legend continues to grow, as does his influence on American music. Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, to name just two popular singer-songwriters, … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Americana music, documentary, nonfiction, Woody Guthrie
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