I downloaded Kelly’s new album, My December, this morning. Yes, I’ve read all the hype about her feud with the record company over this CD, and I’ve also read the good review it got in Entertainment Weekly. I have to say I side with EW. It’s a...
It was a great surprise this morning to see someone I know in the middle of my iTunes home page. I first met Sara Bareilles in 1993, shortly after I moved to Humboldt County, California. She was in the Ferndale Repertory Theatre production of a musical version of...
A couple weeks ago Ebert & Roper reviewed a small film called Once, a musical love story, set in Ireland, about a street musician and an immigrant who spend a week recording music together. E&R gave it two thumbs up and within a week I also saw that it was an...
I discovered Audra McDonald when she was in Ragtime in 1998. Initially it was just a performance on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and later Will and I saw the entire show on a trip to NYC. I was blown away by her voice and her acting. She’s won four Tonys–two for...
Thanks in no small part to the cultural dumping ground that is Youtube, U.S. citizens can finally enjoy the camp extravaganza that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Below is the UK’s entry, the sugary britpop confection “Flying the Flag” by Scooch. The...
I was excited to pick up Rufus Wainwright’s new album, Release the Stars, which came out today. As soon as I got up, I opened iTunes to download it so I could listen to it as I wrote this morning. I’ve been listening to the first single, “Going to a...
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