Let’s Hear It For The Girls
Considering memorable holiday fare from EDIE ADAMS and DORIS DAY
Kansas Pacific (1953)
STERLING HAYDEN and EVE MILLER star in KANSAS PACIFIC, a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s. Short subject: Little Lulu, 'Bargain Counter Attack.'
Half-Lights and Misty Streetscapes
'HALF LIGHTS and MISTY STREETSCAPES': ROBERT HUGILL reviews two introspective, atmospheric, haunting gems: pianist-composer MELISSA PARMENTER's MESSAPICA and the intriguing ECHO COLLECTIVE's THE SEE WITHIN.
In Trim: Bruce Brown’s Endless Epic
Writing for Longboard magazine in 2005, PAUL HOLMES captured the entire epic saga of the making of BRUCE BROWN's THE ENDLESS SUMMER.
Strengthening the Sustainable Agriculture Message
Crafting an inclusive message to promote agriculture that is environmentally sound, profitable and supports communities was the goal of the workshop "Building Capacity and the Voice for a Stronger Sustainable Agriculture Moveme...
‘Song is Central to the Irish Imagination’
Their 2016 debut album was an international hit, and the CHORAL SCHOLARS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN are back with another stellar rendering of Irish song in PERPETUAL TWILIGHT
Echoes From A Distant Time
IN ECHO , an ensemble devoted to 16th and 17th century music, offers MUSIC IN A COLD CLIMATE, a selection of songs from a time when the seafaring nations of Northern Europe were connected culturally and commercially by the Hans...
Farming Change Agent Larry Jacobs Shares Vision on Sustainable and Organic Ag, Part 1
An interview with sustainable agriculture pioneer LARRY JACOBS, plus a NASA study provides new evidence of global warming's impact on global rainfall.
The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2023
So many good things inside--behold the YULETIDE BAEDEKER 2023 edition. All the Christmas you could want!
DETOUR (1945)
'No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it.' So says ROGER EBERT of the film noir classic, DETOUR, a gem from the Poverty Row era, filmed on a miniscule budget in a matter of days, but aging better than many big budget epi...
‘I Will Imagine You Venus To Night’
To his beloved FANNY BRAWNE JOHN KEATS wrote some of the most torrid and revealing love letters in history, one of which, from 1819, we offer here. Also here: Keats's timeless poem, 'To Autumn.'
Of Ethereal, Poised Beauty
Film composer Richard Harvey's disc of highly evocative choral music in superb performances from two Baltic choirs, the LATVIAN RADIO CHOIR and the ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR
