From the monthly archives: October 2009
Written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
As an exercise in futility (a Coen-brothers-appreciation primer if ever there was one), let’s imagine what might have happened had A Serious Man been made by gentiles, or, Hashem forbid, by Arabs.
Under those circumstances, it might be called the most anti-Semitic film of the year.
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Continue Reading →Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
New Haven Review and Yale University’s McDougal Center for Graduate Student Life will host its 2nd Town Meets Gown Read In, where writers from New Haven and the Yale communities come together to share original works of poetry and prose. The “Read In” features five writers [...]
Continue Reading →Smoke
By Chuck Richardson
236 pp. BlazeVOX
$16.00
Truisms are called truisms for a reason. They’re not exactly the same as truthiness, as promulgated by right-wing demagogues. Truisms, by their nature, are hackneyed. But they contain more than just the traditional “element of truth.” They do not sin by omission. Rather they [...]
Continue Reading →The Yale Cabaret states its mission to be “a gauntlet thrown in the face of our future, a scar in the memory of our audience, a ballerina dancing with a stick of dynamite.” If this sounds a bit in your face, can that be a bad thing? Theater can’t cuddle its audience, that’s what TV [...]
Continue Reading →By Banning Eyre (Temple University Press, 2000)
Journalist Banning Eyre is one of Connecticut's great unsung musical treasures; he and Sean Barlow are the driving forces behind Afropop.org, one of the best sources I've come across to learn more about Africa's various styles of music, as diverse as they are infectious. But [...]
Continue Reading →I was hankering for a good adventure movie the other night- something 18th century and swashbuckling. I stumbled upon The Red Tent, on the cover: a tattered crew huddled in a wreck in the middle of an Arctic landscape-and a headshot of Sean Connery. I was sold.
What Andy and I settled down to watch [...]
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