Six Degrees of Toxicity: Films About Planet Earth
In the last 12 months, we’ve seen “biblical-style” floods in Australia (a place which, just a few years ago, was suffering through a drought),...
Jamie Saxon: The Detox Diaries, Part 1
I blame the Barefoot Contessa’s pomegranate martinis, or maybe my friend Colette’s decadent shrimp dip, or maybe my all-Nigella Christmas dinner: roast beef, Yorkshire...
Order Some Blues with Your Dinner
Unlike some blues and blues-rock bands of recent vintage, harmonica player and guitarist Kenny “Stringbean” Sorensen knows how to front an ensemble. Whether in...
The Unexplored Terrain of Being a Woman
When I asked playwright Sarah Treem to describe her play, “The How and the Why,” then in rehearsal at McCarter Theater, she said, “It’s...