NOT time to get a watch. Because it’s SUMMERTIME! This playlist is long enough that you’ll be able to play it on repeat all summer…
Posts published in “Arts”
Ithaca: Hollywood of the East
In the early 20th century, Ithaca was the center of the silent film industry: a Hollywood of its time. Glamorous actresses, producers, and directors roamed…
Chance the Rapper: “Coloring Book” Review
To release an album on Friday the 13th, one would have to be pretty darn confident. Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, released…
A New Kind of Makeover: The Jungle Book
Let’s throw it back to 1967: the year of my mother’s birth, the year that the first African- American Chief Justice, Thurgood Marshall, was sworn…
Remembering the Purple One
People (including myself) like to go on about how Prince was this and Prince was that: “He was Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Michael Jackson…
ReViews
Drake’s highly anticipated album has arrived! Views is an extensive, emotional collection of tunes straight from Toronto’s OVO Sound record label. As with almost every…
Yafet’s Favorite Music
I’m no stranger to music, but then again, who is? This is one of my last articles for The Tattler, and with summer rapidly approaching,…
“Can you picture how drop-dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the ’20s. Paris in the ’20s, in the rain.…
The 6th Annual “Benefit My State” Concert: A Review
It’s not an unusual phenomenon for a couple of brothers and friends to form a band. It is unusual to be Ithacan, and perhaps even…
The Venus of Urbino: A Domestic Deity
“There are pictures of nude women that suggest no impure thoughts—I am well aware of that. … What I am trying to emphasize is the…
Warning: Heavy spoilers for Season 1. The camera centers in on the sleeping face of Sarah Manning, our streetwise antihero, who lies slumped over…
Confronting Nostalgia
When I look back on this past fall, the memories I have are chock-full of moments that I can only describe as angst-ridden, indie-film quality:…
Your Spring To-Do List, Narrated in Song
“Mood Indigo” (1958): Nina Simone Get spring fever. Be overwhelmed. Be sad. Be moody. Be Mood Indigo. “I Think I’ll Call It Morning” (1971): Gil…
Minimalist Playlist
Minimalism (n). Music: a reductive style or school of modern music utilizing only simple sonorities, rhythms, and patterns, with minimal embellishment or orchestrational complexity, and…
Throwback Hits
When they hear a song from sometime around 2006, people usually say something along the lines of “OMG such a throwback, I haven’t heard this…
On My First Ithaca Underground Show
I followed the lonely sound of a glockenspiel coming from the main showroom of the Sacred Root Kava Bar to find a standing crowd of…
Movie Review: Where to Invade Next
When I took a seat at Cinemapolis’ cozy movie theater, I was unsure what to expect from the new Michael Moore movie Where to Invade…
What Happened at the Oscars?
Racism: discrimination based on racial or ethnic origins. While no one doubts that racism’s presence in the society of America’s past, people today have their…
The Forbidden Room: the Viewing Experience
Here’s something I’ve recently come to accept as true: it’s beautiful, euphoric even, to have a film morph and shift in and out of shape…
Wind-Up: Part 5
The room fell silent, all eyes on Winder. His face pale and shaken, he stared back at his rival detective with unbridled venom. “Krig,” he…
Hamilton: A Musical for a New America
What is there to say about Hamilton that hasn’t already been said? The hip-hop musical (although it might more accurately be deemed an opera) is…
Lyric Visions: When Artists Piggyback
On Valentine’s Day, the national day of love, I attended a joint poetry reading/art show at the State of the Art Gallery in downtown Ithaca.…
Dadaism: Celebrating the Centennial
A hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for someone to conceive of going to a museum or an art gallery and seeing…
Czech This Playlist Out
Despite the modern-day stigma directed toward younger fans of classical music by their peers—let’s face it, you’re going to be called a nerd—it is our…
British Tunes for American Goons
Are Queen Latifah, the Lovin’ Spoonful, and Guns ‘n’ Roses sounding like a broken record? Are the Eagles, Drake, and Smokey Robinson just too familiar?…
Star Wars: The Force Wasn’t With Me on This One
Popcorn in hand, I sat down to Star Wars: The Force Awakens with high expectations. Although I was skeptical of the overwhelmingly positive reviews given…
An Interview with Cinemapolis’ Brett Bossard
Brett Bossard is the executive director of 7th Art, the non-profit media art organization that has worked with Cinemapolis since 2000 to bring Ithaca the…