After the warmest North American December on record, Old Man Winter has finally made his appearance in Upstate New York. With the natural world in…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
How does a punk-rockish performer experimenting his way through the New York scene of the 1980s end up pasting together a languid soundtrack for a…
It’s little wonder that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the number one and two movie-going days of the year. The reason for this burst of cinematic…
The current clan occupying the English throne came to it not through military conquest but the generally less trying expedient of marriage. The route laid…
While reading Peter Roderick’s account of the dismantling of Britain’s National Health Service in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, I put…
When it comes to piano scenes in movies I go for the kind that are keen to dismantle the homey myths that surround the instrument.…
I always find it curious when moderns harp on the of problem opera’s verisimilitude. Theorists of the genre began to grapple with such objections as…
Entrusting the USA to its patroness, Mary Immaculate, then offering one final “God Bless America,” Pope Francis launched heavenward from Philadelphia on his Alitalia jet…
Media coverage of Kelly Gissendaner’s execution in the small hours of Wednesday morning stressed the apparent anomalies of an act that, in this country, is…