15 Sep 2016
ARTS: The Colson Gallery at Eastworks and The Griffin Museum at Colson Gallery recently announced their September 2016 opening. The Pioneer Valley’s newest dedicated photography gallery and a satellite location for The Griffin Museum of Photography is opening at Eastworks in Easthampton.
26 Aug 2016
ARTS: Having been a fan of sculptor, artist, and pop culture trickster Daniel Edwards for well over a decade now (I think I interviewed him for my old podcast way back in 2005!), it’s always a treat to see what shenanigans he will come up with next. His latest project, announced this past week is called the “First Virtual Reality Monument.:
19 Jan 2011
REVIEW: As a long time Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan, I tried reading the original “Buffy” comic book when it hit the stands a few years back, but couldn’t get past the “lifeless” version of Buffy sans the original actors, fun music, and dramatic moments. Even though I read a lot of comic books in my youth, the last graphic novel I read was the Frank Miller “Batman/The Dark Knight,” and the only anime I’ve been able to stomach in the past decade would be “Death Note.”
13 Jan 2011
REVIEW: While the concept of a music keyboard with a computer inside isn’t entirely new, the folks at Austin, Texas start-up Music Computing think they might have invented the new sweet spot in bridging the gap between the notebook and controller crowd and the people who won’t use anything other than a Yamaha Motif or […]
4 Oct 2010
REVIEW: It’s always fun when all the summer movies start to hit Blu-ray, DVD, and pay-per-view earlier and earlier each year. Used to be, I would have to wait practically until Christmas to see the movies I skipped going to the big-screen theaters to see during “blockbuster” season. Last month the first crop hit the […]
16 Sep 2010
LIFESTYLE: I’m not laughing anymore. I was one of those guys that chortled a bit, but not in a mean way, when older friends and relatives would moan about a body ache from washing their car, or having to take some prescription pill for an unpronounceable aliment that everybody seemed to discover at once, or “my back hurts” from carrying in the groceries. It’s the unavoidable lament of middle age, that those of us in our thirties think will never happen to us.
14 Sep 2010
ARTICLE: I’ve been a big fan of star gazing since I was very young. Living in places like Santa Barbara in the 1960s, and the “just built” Davis, California college town circa 1970, it was an amazing sight to sit outside at night and see the world spin against the sky of light. Anybody who […]
22 Aug 2010
REVIEW: If you’re like me, you might be one of the growing ranks of folks who have given up going to the “big screen” movie theatres in favor of stay-at-home movie watching, replete with a Blu-ray player, full surround sound and a large 1080p DLP or other TV. These days I tend to watch some […]
26 Jul 2010
REVIEW: I’m usually not too excited by the Summer crop of new cable TV programs but since this past season of network TV was perhaps one of the worst ever (thank god for “Chuck” and the limping along – pun intended – “House”), I’ve been more than mildly surprised by the new shows for Summer […]
As I was in midst of starting a refresh of my website for the first time in forever, our main web server had catastrophic system/drive failure August 5, 2016 and I lost some of my un-saved theme changes, design updates, etc. (sigh).
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26 Mar 2017
Trump Almost Loses Election and Pop Artist Daniel Edwards Erects Giant Trophy in Las Vegas
ARTS: A nine-foot-tall “RNC Participation Trophy” featuring a large gold and sienna head of Donald J. Trump on a gilded plinth was sculpted by pop-culture artist Daniel Edwards. The monumental statue, believed to be the “World’s Largest Participation Trophy,” in honor of Donald Trump’s presidential run, was unveiled in Las Vegas, Nev. in November.