Author: Erik Loomis
The Criterion Channel presently is streaming the 1981 Ron Mann documentary Imagine the Sound, probably the foremost film ever made on the free jazz scene. It features four greats--Cecil Taylor,.
A slight bit of good news, as every nation has now passed the International Labour Organization's Convention No. 182 on "The Worst Forms of Child Labor." That's great, but of.
I think a thread is in order on the Congressional primaries so far this year. It's been very interesting, including this week. A few thoughts. Left-wing challengers to party functionaries.
I haven't seen any shows in five months, which is terrible. But I have read a lot and that has included a few books about music. Might as well discuss.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.
I'm just about to finish Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, which is such a magnificent book about the rise of revolutionary ideology, culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution. It's so.
I have not listened to the New York Times podcast Nice White Parents, simply because it would get in the way of me listening to music 14 hours a day.
Ben Smith makes a very good point here--the media is so obsessed with the horserace and the coverage of election night that it is totally unprepared to deal with the.