Brooklyn
Movie Review: Brooklyn
4 stars out of 5 Sometimes, in these United States, a swarthy boy will fall in love with a clean Irish girl. And every once in a while, she’ll love him back. Now, in terms of Irish women, the filmmakers here were really stacking the deck by casting Saoirse Ronan as the lead. A year […]
Album Review: ‘Hysterical Fiction’ by A Nero
4.5 stars out of 5 Click to listen or purchase You remember Nero — guy supposedly fiddled while Rome burned. Well, I’m casting my vote for A Nero to be the house band when Brooklyn meets its inevitable end. But until that time, we have their excellent album Hysterical Fiction to enjoy. Genre-wise, I’ll categorize […]
Record Store Review: Rough Trade NYC
I guess I first heard about Rough Trade when I was in high school (not to be confused with lower-case “rough trade,” which is another story for another day). It was a record label, and also a store, or vice-versa, and it was British and mysterious and cool, with an iconic logo, perfect for us […]
Jack Silbert, curator