The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
This is the way to go.
Yahoo! News story on the Ray Charles funeral. I thought Jesse Jackson’s reading was especially well put:
“Now heaven has a maestro,” Jackson said. “Ray, when you first get there, before you meet Count (Basie), before you meet Duke (Ellington), before you meet family and friends, there’s a man over there, across the river who is giving sight to the blind!”
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.