Film: Baseball’s Intimidating Strike King
If anybody in the last half century of baseball deserves a bio film, it’s Nolan Ryan, the hard throwing Texan pitcher, who racked up dozens of records in a 27…
Santana, Making That Note Sing at 74
There is something about the serenity and tone of Carlos Santana that keeps him soaring, more than a half century after the world ignited from the Latin fire he brought…
Film Review: ‘Beneath the Banyan Tree’
It’s a heady time for Asian filmmaking, from the Oscar for Japan's “Drive My Car” to the recent premiere of the Korean-American streaming series "Pachinko." Fitting well among them is…
Mike Campbell’s The Dirty Knobs Arrive
With Tom Petty gone since 2017, fans have flocked to the shows of his longtime guitarist, producer, and collaborator Mike Campbell. With the same kind of Florida panhandle twang, rock…
Poguetry in Motion Back at the Black Cat
The Pogues and St. Patrick’s Day were always a natural combination to be celebrated by the Irish from any background. Many are the fans who clamored to see the Irish…
St. Paul & The Broken Bones Among Us
“It’s been two and a half years since I’ve been able to be with an audience,” Paul Janeway, the venerable saint of the soul band St. Paul and the Broken…
Four-Part ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’
The rise and fall of Bill Cosby in American culture is a considerable tale of race and talent and decades of denial for behavior that led to his conviction of…
Film: Blissfully Lolling in ‘Lotawana’
When it came to making “Lotawana,” his first feature film, Trevor Hawkins had a lot of experience on which to draw. He had been an Emmy-award winning nature photography whose…
Film: Trapped in the Thriller ‘Outlier’
When the pandemic first hit, L.A. filmmaker Nate Strayer went back to Michigan to lock down with family. As COVID continued, he decided to make a film there. He flew…
Bob Dylan Live: ‘Is This Foggy Bottom?’
Before it was so rudely interrupted, Bob Dylan’s annual touring regimen took on a recurring pattern, playing the same towns the same times of the year. His last time in…