Art & Culture Archive
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Soulkiss: The House Band at Valda’s Restaurant and Cafe
Posted on December 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsBelow, Soulkiss covering the Nona Hendryx penned “Going Down Makes Me Shiver,” which appeared on LaBelle’s 1976 album, “Chameleon.” But can a song appear? Patti and the girls do it no better. But it is not a competition. These boys... -
The Flow
Posted on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment[nggallery id=14] For me, the Fluxus art movement of the nineteen-sixties, stands next to the American surrealist cause–Joseph Cornell, Marcel on 14th Street, etc–as one of the more continually compelling moments in contemporary art. As the subject of the beautiful... -
One Poem for My Spiritual Godfather, Lester Young
Posted on November 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsUpon approaching someone he loved, Lester Young greeted them with: “How are your feelings”? Nat Hentoff produced the attached clip. Lester is the second soloist. He named Billie not Lady but Duchess. He called Billie’s mother, Sadie, Lady, but Billie... -
Charlotte Rampling: The Versification of a Letter Never Sent
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe great poet, a madman, produced, during the course of his long career, and violent life, a number of images–potent mirages/One I loved was about the heat in his apartment, he could grow a palm tree in it/And I wonder... -
Queer Story
Posted on October 14, 2011 | 1 CommentThe young man sporting the checked cap, the one with the pale skin, ruddy cheeks, and dark facial hair, lives alone, in a flat that’s one step up from a council flat. There are windows in the sitting room and... -
Arbus Speaks
Posted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen I first heard Diane Arbus’s voice, I felt as if I’d known it all along. It’s a voice that’s as singular as her pictures, girlish and definite in tone, a voice that conveys in its lovely trills and reasonableness...
