Celebrating Community
There was a period around and after the development and promotion of Wynton Marsalis as a public jazz star when there seemed a coordinated campaign to add a fancy slogan to jazz. Institutions, promoters, journalists, musicians—when talking about jazz in front of an audience, they would frequently qualify the term by stating that jazz is “American’s classical music.” This always […]
Peace (On Earth). On Jan. 21, without advance notice, the pioneering drone/doom project Earth unleashed its latest sonic assault to streaming media. On Jan. 27, Dylan Carlson, the leader and only constant member of the band, refused to play a concert in Bologna, Italy, when he saw a Palestinian flag displayed in the venue. Let’s take these one at a […]
I have a remarkable story to tell you. My story is about a competition between the two hippest new stars in New York in 1966. At that time, Bob Dylan went from being the iconic Folk Singer to the most exciting new Rock Star. Andy Warhol went from being the most iconic Pop Artist to the most exciting new Underground Film […]
On Feb. 10, Wraptor Restaurant and Bar, located at 358 Columbia Street hosted a movie night. Shown was a movie called Secret Mall Apartment, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Jeremy Workman. The film is about a group of artists who create a secret apartment in the middle of a busy Rhode Island mall in the early 2000s […]
