by Bryan | Jun 5, 2012 | Music, Television
From Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: [John] Cage’s definitive refutation of Beethoven came in the form of an epic, almost daylong performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations. The original score is only a page long and would normally take just a minute...
by Cyrus | Apr 8, 2011 | Books, Television
One of the ways that I have typically contextualized the final pages of E. B. White’s Here is New York has been to show a clip from Edward R. Murrow’s news program See It Now, which began its life as a radio program called Here It Now, but moved to...
by Bryan | Nov 24, 2010 | Pop Culture, Television
How is it that Cookie Monster wasn’t asked to do this years ago?
by Bryan | Nov 11, 2010 | Music, Television
Am I the only one who hears the resemblance between these two songs? Previously.
by Cyrus | Sep 21, 2010 | Television
Okay, I know we all have mixed feelings about “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. But, come on, didn’t you get just a little bit of a kick watching the Glee gang perform the song outside their Ohio high school in order to attract new...
by Bryan | Sep 14, 2010 | Books, Television
Wednesday night, when the new NYU Bookstore (726 Broadway) kicks off its inaugural programming season by featuring our Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, Brooklyn-based writer Caleb Crain will be reading from his piece on the literature of...
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