The Top 5 Shows
1.) I, for one, don’t mind living in the past. Holding up five fingers and a thumb saves my friends who aren’t Steelers fans...
Considering Song Kang-ho
In my review of Snowpiercer, I called Song Kang-ho one of the world’s greatest actors, but I didn’t have the space to go into...
“Some Assembly Required” at the Modern
Artists are always looking to new media, especially new technology, to find inspiration for their works. It’s almost inevitable, though, that the new-fangled medium...
Anybody See Tim Love’s Restaurant Startup Premiere?
The network television premiere of Restaurant Startup was at 9 last night, and I missed it. I had planned to Tivo it. I forgot....
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Venus in Fur (R) Roman Polanski directs this French-language adaptation of David Ives’ play about a theatrical director (Mathieu Amalric) who holds an audition...
A Foodie Walks Into a Tapas Bar …
Are we on the verge of another tapas craze? Several years ago, every eatery in town came up with a “small plates” menu. Tapas...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 9
Russian conductors don’t often try their hand at Italian opera, but the estimable Semyon Bychkov headed up the Met’s production of Verdi’s...
Many-Splintered Love
Last week’s cover story on chef Tim Love (“Eat, Drink & Burn Bridges,” July 2, 2014) received national attention in Esquire’s digital edition, much...
O’Shea’s: Tubular
I admit it. I’ve written far too much about Applebee’s in this space, enough to make the casual observer suspect that for all the...
The Caliphate Returns
“Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day,” said Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, announcing the rebirth of the Caliphate...
