The Selected Ballads

"...in the heart of the city, where the alligator roams..." - Nick Lowe Like a lot of people who say they're "from...

Catching up after putting the blog on hiatus for a while, here are some more or less recent albums, books, and live performances I've en...

Being less a list than a year-end roundup in numbered sections. The order is not to be taken as a ranking of relative quality, except perha...

The Human Hearts -  Flag Pin  EP Franklin Bruno's recent EP is a digital-only appetizer for the forthcoming full-length Human Hearts a...

The Master One of the best movie experiences I've had in a long time was seeing The Master in 70mm at the Ziegfeld Theater. I avoided ...

Since completing the first two parts ( A Time of Gifts and  Between the Woods and the Water ) of Patrick Leigh Fermor's as-yet unfinish...

Dirty Projectors -  Swing Lo Magellan     The new DPs album has grown on me after some initial disappointment. Though I've found much ...