September 2011
20 posts
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Sep 30th
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, …
Sep 29th
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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.
Sep 29th
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Sep 29th
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….
Sep 22nd
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…
Sep 22nd
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Sep 18th
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Margo Martindale: Fresh Air →
I could listen to Martindale’s voice all day.
Sep 18th
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Sep 17th
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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.
Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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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).
Sep 13th
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…
Sep 12th
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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)
Sep 11th
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Sep 10th
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,…
Sep 9th
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
Sep 8th
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.
Sep 6th
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.
Sep 3rd