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Bob Dylan - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan.
What does that tell you?
It might suggest that the proprietor of
Kenny White - Friends took me to see Kenny White.
Mavis Staples - If you're of a certain age, this CD is an invitation to time-travel back to the 1960s. Not the '60s of war protest.
Pete Townshend - Forget that they invented the rock opera and could drop from full-bore arena band to acoustic grace.
Stanley Kunitz - It says a great deal about Stanley Kunitz that he was 95 when he was named Poet Laureate for the second time.
The Dionne Warwick Collection - How can you tell if you're young?
Well, when you think of Dionne Warwick, do you think of those infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network?
Is the l
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making, Michael Caine - Michael Caine was a Cockney with burning ambition, unproven talent and few connections.
C.P. Cavafy - Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) may be one of the greatest poets of the last century, but he's mostly known for one poem.
Canal House Cooking Volume 4 - “A beautiful woman is an invitation to a happiness she alone can fulfill.”
Proust said that.
Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living, Allan Lokos - "Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances,” Allan Lokos writes in “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living.&rdquo
"Maybe You Touched Your Genitals" Liquid Hand Soap - So there we were in Las Vegas, waiting for a Cirque de Soleil show.
What do you do in a casino when you don’t gamble and you’re with a gan
"We're All We Have" - I suggested it was time for the 9.5-year-old to make her list for Santa.
She wiggled two fingers on each hand --- air quotes – and said, “
"Zero Dark Thirty" - UPDATE: After writing this, I saw ZERO DARK THIRTY. (I didn't pay.
'A Christmas Carol' & Beyond: Shorter books, please! - The writer I used to be would be appalled by the writer I have become.
A butcher.
Back in the days before you could get credit at Harvard for t
'Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Murphys: Amanda Vaill connects the dots - The budget of the movie was $105 million, and as the May 10 opening of Baz Lurhmann’s 3-D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” approache
'wichcraft: Craft a Sandwich into a Meal -- And a Meal into a Sandwich, Tom Collicchio - Tom Colicchio is on television so often that I can’t quite picture him actually having a day job.
10 Remixes, Les Negresses Vertes - Esther Perel, the therapist who wrote Mating in Captivity, has a radical explanation for marital bed death.
100 Journeys for the Spirit - Landscapes with spiritual power --- haven’t we been there before?
Yes. We have. The book is Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold Between Worlds.
2010: Hey, hey, goodbye - With this edition, I kiss 2010 goodbye and, like the butler/chauffeur of “Sabrina,” head off to spend the holidays with my family in our m
2011: The Bad and the Beautiful -
“The first cure for illusion,” Philip Slater wrote, “is despair.”
This was the year in which certain things beca