April 2014
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My Internet Radio Playlist, 4/7/14
EPISODE #123: SPRING CLEANING The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Go-Betweens — “Spring Rain” Echo & the Bunnymen — “Do It Clean” LCD Soundsystem — “Dance Yrself Clean” Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Clean Money” M. Ward — “Clean Slate” Vehicle Flips — “The Clean Slate” Spoon — “Deep Clean” Camera Obscura — […]
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Kurt Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, but we didn’t learn the news until Friday, April 8. Can you imagine that today, three days passing? No distraught tweet from Courtney Love? No Instagram of the body from an assistant coroner, whose account is taken down the next day? It was bad enough […]
Movie Review: The Unknown Known
3.5 stars out of 5 Remember that infamous footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? Well, there’s no video evidence of it, but Rumsfeld also shook hands with my mom. No, seriously. This was a handful of years ago, and my folks were at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. […]
Movie Review: Noah
3.5 stars out of 5 If they told us in Hebrew school that Adam and Eve had a third son named Seth, well, maybe I was absent that day. Regardless, Cain and Abel seemed to get all the press. Seth was the Zeppo of the family. The Chuck Cunningham. Now, Darren Aronofksy is out to […]
You Came to the Right Place
For the winter 2014 issue of JCI Magazine, I profiled a hidden-away Italian-American “dining club”—15 Fox Place. The article now appears online. Mangia!
One Man’s ‘Cheese Fries’ Approach to DVR Management
For my first piece on the Antenna Free TV website, I explain how the method I use to decide which recorded shows to watch is similar to the method I use to eat a plate of cheese fries.
Jack Silbert, curator