On approach, Death By Audio, one of Brooklyn’s Do-It-Yourself, all-ages concert venues, is unassuming – and strikingly so. The north side of South 2nd Street’s sidewalk runs unevenly, from solid concrete slabs at the corner of Wythe Avenue to mid-block cracked asphalt and unkempt...
One of the first glimpses of The Social Network came in July, when an early trailer appeared on YouTube. It was a music video of sorts, featuring a children’s choir singing Radiohead’s first single, “Creep,” over images of typical Facebook photos and status updates—the latter...
Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 film Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), known in the United States as Everyman for Himself and in the United Kingdom as Slow Motion (on account of its most conspicuous special effect), has just finished a welcome revival at Film Forum. Often hailed as Godard’s...
10 More Academic Films In a previous GC Advocate article I presented my list of Top 10 academic films. I received some insightful feedback from various people who read the list. (And I heard from a couple of friends who chastised me for including John Singleton’s Higher...
A detailed report by the American Civil Liberties Union only confirms what many have been saying for a year or more. The Obama administration's policies on national security, state secrets, and civil liberties threaten to ratify the Bush approach to these issues--an approach to which candidate Obama took great exception.
eighth blackbird just performed an incredible concert here at Music10. This concert was devoted to works by the three principal composers that I mentioned in my last post: Joel Hoffman, Stephen Hartke, and Martin Bresnick. The whole concert was good, congratulations to all involved, etc.,...
