CD: Various Artists, The Gift: A Tribute to Ian Tyson Release date: 2007 Label: Stony Plain Recording Think I’ll go out to Alberta?weather’s good there in the fall Got some friends that I could go to working for Still I wish you’d change your mind, if I asked you one more time, But we’ve been… Read more »
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Doctor Sparkles is a ukulele-strumming San Francisco singer-songwriter whose songs are written in swing, cabaret, blues, klezmer, and other noble musical traditions. His latest CD, Monkey Swing, Monkey Doo was self-produced (see Voice review here). He is now working on his next album, Scary Country. In his own words: The li?l fella that would become… Read more »
Book: Roddy Doyle, The Deportees Publication date: 2007 Publisher: Viking, New York A young Nigerian man is invited to dinner at the boisterous Dublin home of a female acquaintance. Her brother makes a snide comment about the dearth of culinary options in Nigeria and is immediately descended upon by the women of the house, mad… Read more »
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CD: Doctor Sparkles, Monkey Swing Monkey Doo Release date: 2008 The ukulele-strumming shaman-trickster-guru with a cartoon roadmap of creative mindfulness ?Just where ?time? and ?space? (or so we’re told) begin to pretend to be two there lives The King of Toys who’s so wonderfully made that he may only be played with by what children… Read more »
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Elisa Albert writes fiction and teaches creative writing at Columbia. Her first novel, The Book of Dahlia, (see Voice review here) was recently published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. Albert previously authored the critically lauded short story collection How This Night is Different. The Origins of The Book of Dahlia I… Read more »
DVD: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Release date: February 26, 2008 Starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider Director: Andrew Dominik Screenwriter: Andrew Dominik Composers: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis ?. . . my heroic idealism had to be abandoned, for there are higher things than the… Read more »