Some people live for their work, and some live through their work, but rarer are those who truly embody their work. Meet Anne Whitaker, voice coach to the stars, as well as dialogue and dialect teacher and beacon to neophytes in need of vocal guidance. Her specialty? In a word…

Cockney glottal-stops popping, one can imagine the board meeting: “Mates, fecking Indiana Jones is eigh’y, roigh’? ‘e’s back again, wha’ve we go’?” On this new album, Hackney Diamonds, with the combined ages of the four surviving Rolling Stones currently totaling 321 years — that’s three hundred twenty-one — it’s hardly…

Tenure thriller. Roll that around on your tongue. Tenure thriller. We don’t get a lot of those, do we? Not your conventional programmer! Seeking to fortify this underserved subgenre — or, perhaps, to create it — the new dark-comic film Publish or Perish explores the struggles of an ambitious, Colorado-based…

I’m not into rewarding bad behavior, let alone celebrating it, thus when the movie studio that axed Johnny Depp from its Harry Potter prequel series foists The Flash upon us without recasting, I cry foul at the favoritism and its implications. (Notably, Depp won his case, and recently chose to…

Slightly over a year ago, in early 2022, as Omicron ripped through the populace, as millions of protective masks were freely distributed two years too late for a very unfashionable pandemic just in time for the mask mandate to be rescinded mere days later, and as almost everyone everywhere was…

In these disruptive and challenging times, it takes a special breed to rise to the occasion and find success. Meet Steven Adams and Theo Dumont of Alta Global Media. Their boutique firm is a leading Artist Management, Marketing & PR, and Production company. Together, the duo has carved a unique…

It’s official. In an unprecedented scientific study that is unprecedented, leading scientists gathered in Zurich or Geneva but probably Zurich (or was it Antwerp?) to “dialogue” about the deleterious effects upon the world in general by all known generations of human beings. Factors gauged by the Department of Raffish Knowledge…

You’ve seen his work. You’ve sensed his style. His imagery varies widely, but always there’s heart, and indeed soul, to it. …

Note: This piece is one of two yin/yang appraisals of my recent years of pop-culture consumption; refer to its twin for less favo(u)rable opinons. Despite these years being rough on everyone except the wealthy and complacent (and even they were mildly inconvenienced, thoughts and prayers), some good stuff got made…