UPDATE, 12/7: I just looked at the Met’s website and didn’t see anything about the audio for this getting posted, but there’s a nice blog post with a few pics at the Village Voice. UPDATE: This broadcast is over, but…
I was looking for something else at the PBS website when I ran across this fascinating interview by Jeffrey Brown of Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. I suppose if you’re reading this, you already know…
Just a heads up about the December 4th closing of Betsy Cain’s show “In Situ” at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center for the Arts here in Savannah. I reviewed the show in a Savannah Morning News column in August. I…
[Update: I wrote this review on 11/5, but I’m bumping this back to the top of the blog now that the film has been released.] Walter quit growing at about three feet tall. He’s a covered in fur. He has…
Why would anyone have an umbrella on a beautiful, cloudless day?
Why were frequent public appeals and media mentions unable to determine the man’s identity for more than a decade?
I can’t believe that it’s already been 5 months since I blogged about the the first annual Savannah Dance Festival, scheduled for October 18-20, 2012: The new Savannah Dance Festival and thinking big. I devoted an entire City Talk column…
I’ve mentioned Bill Augustin previously on this blog — he’s worked with publicist Bobby Zarem in New York for more than a decade. Bill recently came to Savannah for his 11th Savannah Film Festival. But Bill has been working on…
I have a love-hate-but-mostly-love relationship with Facebook. Eventually, I want to post here about my absurd number of network contacts. But as an occasional teacher of journalism courses and as someone who with more than a passing interest in issues…
“Are these crackers for real?” asks Destiny, the sweet ten-year-old African American foster child, as she confronts the peculiar customs of white Iowans. Destiny finds a home amidst the weirdos in Butter, a screamingly funny new movie from director Jim…
A Dangerous Method is smart, entertaining, and provocative, but it’s still a surprisingly flat fictionalization of key moments in the relationship — first cordial and supportive but later bitter and divisive — between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Director David…
We Need to Talk About Kevin opens with adventurer and author Eva Khatchadourian ecstatically immersed in La Tomatina, the Spanish festival that’s seen here as an orgiastic tomato fight. At one point, Eva is even lifted by the crowd –…
“He was a kind of nothing,” one envoy reports after trying to stop the banished Caius Martius Coriolanus from turning his wrath on Rome. Ralph Fiennes brings a blazing intensity to his role as Coriolanus (Fiennes also directed), but he…
Another Happy Day assembles one of the strongest casts that I can recall in recent years. Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, and Diana Scarwid are among the big names, and they share some stunning…
The Artist opens at the movies. Star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is among those gathered behind the screen – watching in reverse – as his latest hit finishes. We cut to the theater and see a few clips of the…
