Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary
Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman
Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness. Awkward lyricism under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading
The Five-Year Engagement: Just Believe!
In The Five-Year Engagement Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) have put off their marriage for career reasons, broken up, gotten involved with others, but finally give in to what seems an inevitable love. In one of the movie’s … Continue reading
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A second look at Fox News
I’m mostly—though not entirely—liberal, and for me that means I have not watched Fox News for more than a few minutes at a time for many years. Even if you’re just moderately liberal, you have to be more patient than I am to … Continue reading →