Advertisements Or, an unexpected farewell Let the WordPress record show that I had planned this post long, long before the sudden death of Stephen Sondheim a week ago Friday. As I told my family when I called them thirty seconds after reading the news, there are those figures whose deaths you prepare for, and thoseContinue reading “Is INTO THE WOODS the Great American Musical?”
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I Love Edie
Advertisements In which I mount a defense *CW: eating disorders, assault, suicide, drug abuse* Several months back, I read Karen Karbo’s In Praise of Difficult Women, a collection of profiles of women who transformed industries, championed causes, or lived some type of way. Among the profiled is Edie Sedgwick, who clearly belonged to the lastContinue reading “I Love Edie”
#ThrowbackThursday: A Tribute to International Pepper Day
Advertisements In which I reflect on a gathering in Central Park to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper With the “Beatles 50” decade (that is, a series of Beatles-related 50th anniversaries) fast coming to a close, I sit listening to the special remaster of Abbey Road, which is everything I couldContinue reading “#ThrowbackThursday: A Tribute to International Pepper Day”