The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
Salon has published a new scene from Tony Kushner’s play-in-progress featuring First lady Laura Bush as a character. There’s also a link to the controversial first act.
The new scene is what sophisticates call “metafiction.” Meaning it features Kushner himself (the award-winng author of Angels In America in both its film and theater incarnations) as a character engaging “Laura Bush” in conversation about the play they have just watched.
Bring your loupe and spend some time poring over the maps that open Navola with Ian Koss.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Lily and Generoso review director Gürcan Keltek’s mesmerizing supernatural drama, New Dawn Fades, winner of the Best Feature Boccalino D’Oro Award of the 24th Independent Film Critics Awards of the 2024 Locarno International Film Festival.
Channing Wilson opens for Steve Earle as Steve tours on his Alone Again Live album.
“Lonely Striped Sock,” a tiny fraction of Montreal band PYPY’s upcoming fireball album, Sacred Times, won’t get lost in your dryer, I promise.
