September 2011
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Chelsea Crowell on New Album, Crystal City →
Chelsea Crowell’s Crystal City
Winter 2012 marks the U.S. release of singer/songwriter Chelsea Crowell’s second album, Crystal City. To mark the upcoming release, …
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Most of these songs are recorded live, no stops, no punch ins, no overdubs.
– Chelsea Crowell in my interview with her about her new album, Crystal City.
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Actress-Producer Camille Mana →
Article first published as An Interview with Actress-Producer Camille Mana on Blogcritics.
Camille Mana
October is going to be a busy month for actress-producer Camille Mana….
Painter Brendan O’Connell Interviewed by Alec... →
Brendan O’Connell
In what seems like a lifetime ago, in the mid-1980s, painter Brendan O’Connell and I went to high school together. The other day he dropped me a note to let me…
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Margo Martindale: Fresh Air →
I could listen to Martindale’s voice all day.
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Johnny Carson Pays Tribute to Orson Welles →
Johnny Carson tells a personal story from when he was 17, partially in tribute to Orson Welles, again courtesy of the gang at AFI.
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Orson Welles Receives 1975 AFI Life Achievement... →
A six-minute Orson Welles 1975 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech that could never happen today (in length alone. but also on other levels).
Things to Learn: Groucho Marx Auditioned for That... →
Why do I continue to link to interviews like this? Because the Archive of American Television offers them and is also smart enough to place teasers like this (the fact that Groucho Marx…
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m...
– John Irving, The World According to Garp (via johnirvingthings)
Novelist Diana Abu-Jaber on Birds of Paradise: A... →
Birds of Paradise: A Novel
Article first published as Interview: Novelist Diana Abu-Jaber on Birds of Paradise: A Novel on Blogcritics.
If you are a regular listener to NPR,…
U.S. GAO Turns 90 →
I rarely cover politics on this blog, but I am just fascinated that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (in an effort to celebrate turning 90) is promoting the fact that it is on
Odds and Ends →
Over at Robot 6, I interviewed colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser.
Meanwhile, over at ContainsEggs, my pals find a way to connect writer/director/actor Christopher Guest to the NFL.
Interviews to See: 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike... →
NBC is doing some funky digital content. I cannot believe I had not stumbled across 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O’Brien before. This segment is with Kristen Wiig.