by Dan Metz | Oct 24, 2019 | Art, Culture, Featured
By John EspositoEdgar Allan Poe on the High Bridge, an imagining made by illustrator Bernard (B. J.) Rosenmeyer, circa 1930 The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the...
by Dan Metz | Oct 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
Photo credit Chris Loupos It’s an era of economic instability. It’s an era of broken dreams and disaffected youth. A grim isolation that separates us from those we love and traps us in our own world. At least, that’s the way Tom Wingfield remembers...
by Dan Metz | Oct 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
Shakespeare was funny, and not the kind of humor that you’d expect from a literary titan. His work often had a Seth Rogan sense of humor, reveling in the crude, crass, and sexual. You’d expect that 9th graders would love The Bard. But then again maybe not. That...
by Dan Metz | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Image from Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019), picture from IMDB.com If I were writing this review in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early ‘80s, I’d be a dead man. It’s nothing...
by Dan Metz | Oct 7, 2019 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Featured, NYC
McThor. Accompanied by “Agent Coldstone” (off-camera). On the third day of New York Comic Con, Kyle Hill interviewed celebrity creator Adam Savage for an audience of thousands. Savage is famous for his sometimes-extravagant cosplays (dressing up as a...
