The film-of-the-month club Film Movement offers terrific content at a premium price. Alas, the indie and international films in which the service traffics aren’t generating much in the way of …
The Envelope, Please: A Round-Up of Recent Oscar Nominees at Knox Co. Public Library
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Your columnist suspects that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences favors films about motion pictures and the people who make and …
Dusting Off Some Concert Classics From the Knox Co. Library Collection
Son House Son House in Seattle 1968 (Arcola Records, 2007) Representative of Son House’s second musical career—he gave up music during the 1940s and had to reteach himself guitar when …
Charlotte Tolley Has Made the Market Square Farmers’ Market —and Local Food — Wildly Popular Again
It’s the first Saturday of May at Market Square, not quite 8:30 a.m. The sunlight is still horizontal and shadows are long. There is an air of not-unpleasant chaos as …
Classic Catalog: New AV Picks From Knox Co. Public Library
Anna Netrebko Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder and Ein Heldenleben (Deutsche Grammophon) There is no shortage of recordings of the music on this program. Anna Netrebko’s splendid turn at Richard …