Ushio Shinohara and Noriko Shinohara are the subjects of Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer (2013). The film follows Ushio as he tries to revive his fading career with a show featuring his famed “boxing” paintings and other works. Ushio’s style of action painting had gained him some recognition in the art world during the […]
A feeling of dread came over me within the opening minutes of Bart Layton’s The Imposter (2012). A frank, true crime documentary with a creative flair, it only took a few minutes for this film to hook me completely. The Imposter covers the stranger than fiction tale of the 1994 disappearance of 13 year old […]
The first time I heard Braids I was at Cindy Robert’s home in Sunnyside, Calgary. Cindy’s first language is French Canadian, making her arguably cooler than most. Cindy slid Native Speaker onto her vintage ’70s record player one post-party, languid, crisp fall afternoon. Lying on her couch, staring at the ceiling, we listened to the […]
Jeez. Simon Green, you know what’s up. I would love to be able to shake your hand and tell you what a great show you played on October 22, but the entire experience was so much bigger than my vocabulary is, and I wouldn’t want to inconvenience you like that. I would like to be […]
After just a handful of numbers by the night’s backing band, a few of which featured dueting twins Patsy and Peggy Lynn, the sisters introduced their family matriarch, the Queen of Country, Loretta Lynn. Loretta promenaded onto the stage in a long-sleeve ball gown so sequined that all of my friend’s photographs returned Heavenly white […]
Three years ago, I saw the skinny, thirty-ish English singer-songwriter play a (just) sold out show at The Media Club. The guy behind me bought the last ticket and half a dozen people behind him stood around looking rather confused they couldn’t get in. Frank Turner sold t-shirts and drank beer at the merchandise stand […]
Ushio Shinohara and Noriko Shinohara are the subjects of Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer (2013). The film follows Ushio as he tries to revive his fading career with a show featuring his famed “boxing” paintings and other works. Ushio’s style of action painting had gained him some recognition in the art world during the […] 