I read around two dozen books during 2016 – only about 40% of my Goodreads challenge to read 52 titles. Mostly I read during the early parts of the year, before my eyeballs became fully consumed with depressing online political news. After July I started a lot of books that I lacked the attention span to […]
This year was all about subverting expectations at the movies, as many of the more interesting films toyed with genre expectations to produce slow-moving, introspective dramas. The box office was dominated (as usual) by established brands and animated kids movies – The Rock/Kevin Hart comedy Central Intelligence was the one film in the year’s top 20 that […]
Far and away, my favorite art exhibit of the year was the lively group show Flocked Blocked & Stenciled, a wallpaper exhibit curated by Taylor Polites that featured nearly three dozen area artists, including my boyfriend. (His name is Jason Tranchida. He flocked.) In the interest of not being Mr. Nepotism Guy, I’ve excluded that […]
Here, without further ado, are my Top 10 music videos of 2016. Just kidding! Because I am a ridiculous person who gets carried away easily, I made a Top 40 list of my favorite music videos of the year, a collection of clips that range from grim environmental commentary to loopy Bulgarian Alice in Wonderland […]
Law And Order Party is not without its flaws, and chief among them (for me) is that I’m way more likely to check out a play or a film that I can review the following week, as opposed to a live show by a touring band or dance troupe or choral ensemble or whatever. I […]
Year-end recaps are subjective by nature and way more so when you’re one person who can’t possibly make it out to every show that’s happening. I saw about two dozen plays this year, representing (by my count) fourteen different companies. Most of them were good! (I counted four clunkers and if you email me privately […]
Click here for a Spotify playlist featuring the 101 songs that made me happiest this year. Those who know me well know my predilection for sad English ladies with their keyboards, but this year five of my personal top 20 songs are in Spanish, a language I don’t speak particularly well. There’s also one in […]