Dec 21, 2016
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are about to finish off their run on Broadway with Oh, Hello, on January 22. Since there are just a few weeks left, I wanted to give you a glimpse into what went into creating Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, the Upper West Side bachelor theatre-lovers who are, along with a tuna fish...
Dec 14, 2016
One hundred years ago today, horror and humor writer Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California. To celebrate this centennial, I spoke with her grandson, Miles Hyman, about her work and her legacy. Hyman is an accomplished artist in his own right, and just released a graphic novel adaptation of what is...
Dec 7, 2016
Sam Phillips fans have reason to celebrate this fall. She has a new mini-album out, called Human Contact Is Never Easy, which includes four songs that may wind up on a new album, called World On Sticks, she expects to release in 2017. You can read my review of the mini-album in the New Release Roundup from November 25,...
Nov 30, 2016
When I interviewed <a href="http://www.alejandroescovedo.com/" target="_blank">Alejandro Escovedo</a> for this episode, we were sitting in the green room upstairs at the Brighton Music Hall in Boston. He’d just spent ten hours on the road from Toronto on the day after Thanksgiving to get there. You can hear the...
Nov 28, 2016
Colin Quinn has just released two new one-man shows -- Unconstitutional on CD, and The New York Story on Netflix. We could use a dose of him right now. I've interviewed him a few times for the Boston Globe and always found him a reasonable observer of unreasonable times. He's bemused by politics and what it does to...