Screen of Distance

Anyone who’s read this blog even glancingly over the years can probably tell Available Light’s John Cage 101 had a particularly hard row to...

I tried keeping a running tally of any record that knocked me on my ass this year, and spent the last couple of weeks adding a couple new re...

I’m not a big one for shit-used-to-be-so-much better.  Because in most ways, it didn’t, every year has its own pleasures and disappointments...

“We eulogize autumn, we long for a better world, we seek to deliver a purer hemidemisemiquaver, the one brief note that says we mean...

Playwright Daniel Elihu Kramer and director Eleni Papaleonardos do the damn near impossible with Available Light’s adaptation of Pride and P...

Saw the premier run of Bruce Norris’s (Clybourne Park) new play in Chicago with Tom Irwin (a little ashamed I still remember him most fro...

“Solitude and contentment are the product of the mystical; we are never alone and, by rights, never at peace. Such is a space that, ...

“You know Louisville is death You have to up and move Because the dead do not Improve” -Silver Jews, “Tennessee” The unifying t...

“… And what poet ever sat down in front of a Titian, pulled out his versifying tablet and began to drone?  Don’t complain, my dear...

1.  Camu Tao, King of Hearts – It’s a shame the first full-length solo by this Columbus legend is just coming two years after his death, bu...