Folk musicObituaryNanci Griffith obituaryAmerican folk-country singer and songwriter best known for Love at the Five and Dime and her album Other Voices, Other RoomsGreatly admired by her fellow artists and a devoted army of fans, Nanci Griffith, who has died aged 68, exemplified a style of musical storytelling with a literary flavour, focusing on the small details of the lives of her characters. Songs such as Love at the Five and Dime and Gulf Coast Highway have become permanent fixtures in the folk-country canon (Griffith described her music as “folkabilly”), and the Grammy award she won for her album Other Voices, Other Rooms in 1994 seemed a long overdue reward for her carefully crafted body of work. Read More...
Trump mentor. Joe McCarthy protégé. AIDS victim. More than three decades after his death, Roy Cohn still haunts American life. Cohn in Provincetown in the early ’80s. Photo: Courtesy of Peter Manso Cohn in Provincetown in the early ’80s. It wasn’t so long ago that the once-fearsome lawyer Roy Cohn and his infamous career seemed destined to be no more than a colorful footnote to history. Cohn was a gaudy character, for sure — a hustler, a fixer, and an amoral hypocrite of incredible drive — whose life as a closeted man ended in tragic comeuppance when he died of AIDS in 1986, insisting to the last that he couldn’t possibly be dying of that gay disease. Read More...
The Bad Batch Pabu Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch Pabu Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I speculated, after episode nine, that the Batch would finally cut ties with their abusive quest giver, Cid. Read More...