The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
Tired of rehashing the all-too-current Bush years? So’s Ben Varkentine , but he’s making an exception for unabashed “Hollywood liberal” Danny Goldberg’s catalog of attacks on free speech in the past 25 years. He hopes you will too. Politics and free speech, myths and realities, come one, come all, my friends, to the show that never ends.
Walter Shapiro offers a valuable tool for informing voters’ opinions of their potential Presidents, and he does it a la Butch and Sundance: The Early Years. Ben Varkentine finds his eyes opened…and maybe even a new hero. He still thinks there should have been an index, though.
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.
