Waxahatchee review – warm, rousing anthems about embracing change | Waxahatchee
circleaxahatchee’s fifth album, Saint Cloud, was released on March 27th, 2020, and emerged into a changed world. Having made a name for herself with crunchy indie rock, Katie Crutchfield here draws on the country music of her youth in Alabama and the storytelling Americana of Lucinda Williams, an influence in her formative years. It’s a […]
Alice in Wonderland review – down the rabbit hole and into the woods | Theatre
circleLewis Carroll’s classic children’s book is difficult to stage, with more incident than drama; the fun logic games of the novel can feel haphazard when performed, and Alice can come across as overly passive, the helpless center of a chaotic world. Playwright Andrew Pollard’s solution for Duke’s annual promenade around Williamson Park was to portray […]
War Crimes of the Confederates and Post-War Democrats (From the Rogue Review)
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Below are sections from an article published in full at my column on The Rogue Review. It is a tremendously important article on a subject that is vitally important today, because we are living in a world created by the losers of the Civil War, not the winners—we are still […]
Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects by Zandra Rhodes review – wigs, turbans and fly spray | Autobiography and memoir
pictureEver since she arrived in heady ’60s London with her signature acid-coloured geometric bag, zig-zag eyebrows and pink hair, Zandra Rhodes has prided herself on taking the road less travelled. It’s ironic, then, that she’s chosen to tell her life story “in 50 objects,” a narrative technique that’s become standard practice over the past 15 […]
Deadpool & Wolverine review – Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s sarky gagathon mocks the MCU back to life | Deadpool & Wolverine
CCan the fading Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise be redeemed by a plethora of desperately self-aware comedies? Can this summer’s mainstays provide laughs for those who once cared, when fewer and fewer people care? Can an odd-couple action bromance in which Ryan Reynolds’s witty crime-fighter Deadpool plays a gag-busting role and Hugh Jackman’s wrinkled Wolverine plays […]
Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TV | Television & radio
noDespite being a devoted fan of The Good Wife, I never felt more alone than when I despised the recurring character, Elsbeth Tacioni (Carrie Preston), the lawyer who would sometimes appear with a mind-bending “eccentricity,” plucking answers out of thin air to win her client’s freedom as if they were mystical puzzles rather than divine […]
Janet Napolitano joining review of Secret Service response to Trump shooting
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday appointed one of his predecessors, Janet Napolitano, to serve on a bipartisan panel of experts conducting a 45-day independent investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump. The committee will also include two national security officials from the administration of former President George W. Bush, former Homeland […]
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle reacts to independent review of Trump assassination plot
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service, has voiced support for an independent security investigation into a plot last week to assassinate former President Donald Trump. “We look forward to cooperating with the independent security investigation into the U.S. Secret Service’s actions in connection with the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler […]
National Review editorial board calls on Biden to resign immediately in scathing piece: ‘Next logical step’
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Bullyache’s Who Hurt You? review – a messy self-assured world of glitter and sweat | Dance
a Described as a cross between Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 ballet Manon and Paul Verhoeven’s cult film Showgirls, the show is a must-see for its two tales of women using physical attractiveness as their only currency. Breeche’s Who Hurt You? is not as neat a concept as its description suggests, and is as messy as a […]