Arts Apr 20 Preview: Singer Natalie Merchant Is Well-Versed on Her New Album After a 7 year hiatus, singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant has just released a 2-disc album titled "Leave Your Sleep," a collection of 26 traditional poems set to original music. The project began shortly after the birth of her daughter…
Arts Apr 20 There’s No Place Like Dome in Peter Bognanni’s ‘The House of Tomorrow’ Buckminster Fuller's designs provide the inspiration for the setting of "The House of Tomorrow," a first novel by Peter Bognanni that charts the life of an adolescent growing up inside -- and venturing out of -- a geodesic dome.
Arts Apr 16 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction, Paul Harding This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was not a bestseller or a blockbuster. Its author was not a big name, and its publisher, too -- a small imprint called Bellevue Literary Press, run out of the NYU Medical School…
Arts Apr 16 ‘Doctor Who’ Regenerates for a New Season On Saturday, a new era begins for the BBC's beloved science-fiction series, "Doctor Who," the quirky and mysterious hero who time travels in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box, exploring strange worlds and occasionally saving the universe.
Arts Apr 02 Conversation: Alfred Molina Plays Painter Mark Rothko in ‘Red’ In "Red", a new drama by John Logan, abstract artist Mark Rothko speaks his mind about art and life and battles with a young assistant as the two prepares a commission of blood-colored murals. Veteran actor Alfred Molina (acclaimed most…
Arts Mar 26 Conversation: Open Letter’s Translated Works Find a Ready Audience Open Letter Books, a small press operating out of the University of Rochester in New York, is trying to offer those readers a head start. Unlike some large publishing houses that occasionally release translated works, Open Letter only publishes works…