 ‘Madwoman’ charms with quaint eccentricity
There is this brilliant idea that writers get. Crazy people are onto something. In Shakespeare, for example, it’s often the most seemingly insane characters that speak the most wounding truths — most apparent to the most marginalized members of our cruel society. French playwright Jean Giraudoux embraced the concept whole-heartedly in his 1940s play, the Madwoman of Chaillot, a satire that dares to unmask the emptiness of capitalism, law, religio ... |
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 For the love of music
Pop music stars have become simulacra of each other, as we, standing in line for coffee at Starbucks, have become just copies of copies. Bleeding into one another like double-exposures in some demon’s camera, we become a mere image of that which we a ... more |
 Roots rock out at the College
Live concerts have a way of showing off the talents of a band that no album produced in a studio ever can. When cutting an album, musicians can easily cover errors and record repeatedly until everything is right, but in concert there’s no way to fake ... more
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