BOYS STATE
A plane has two wings,” a high school junior representing the Federalist Party says to a room full of teens. “A right one and a left one…” And you need both to make the plane fly. Maybe not the best … Continue reading BOYS STATE
Author: Michael J. Casey
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched space probe Voyager 2 with the expressed mission of exploring the outer planets of the solar system and transmitting the discoveries back to Earth. What, and whom, might it find out there? If Voyager … Continue reading JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE
Movies echo movies. Sometimes in the minds of the filmmakers: Conversations in sound and image across time and space. Sometimes in the viewer’s minds: Stories ping-ponging their way through a couple of thousand years of recorded history. More often than … Continue reading AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE
On this week’s After Image I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released documentary, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski and how that doc got me thinking of another, American Boy: A Profile of … Continue reading
See You at the Movies?
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet. You’ll have to excuse the cliché, but it fits. This courtyard should be filled with voices of patrons coming and … Continue reading See You at the Movies?
YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI
Soft-spoken and even, Charles Bukowski sounds nothing like his face looks. Or like his prose reads. In his introduction to the 1979 edition of John Fante’s Ask the Dust, Bukowski recounts his early days of living in Los Angeles, drinking wine, … Continue reading YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI
TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
Every August TCM breaks from its regularly scheduled programming to honor the faces that make the great mechanical art form so enchanting. It’s Summer Under the Stars, 24 hours with a dozen or so movies from a single actor, 31 … Continue reading TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new (delightful) wartime melodrama, Summerland, and mark the passing of Hollywood titan Olivia de Havilland. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., … Continue reading
SUMMERLAND
They’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever afterTomorrow, when the world is free —Vera Lynn, “The White Cliffs of Dover” Frank (Lucas Bond) has come to Summerland. Sort of: Under normal conditions, he’d be living in London, but it’s World … Continue reading SUMMERLAND
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