Barfly: the return of Uncle Savros, gluwine, and Lou sings on the Pier
What’s Old is New Again: We all get sentimental towards year end, don’t even try to be all macho about it, and I can open the food gates with this one: Listen up Hermosana, Uncle Stavros is back! That’s right! In the 70s, Uncle Stavros, opened up on Hermosa Ave, way down south near Mickey’s […]
A Separation: an Iranian detective story without any detectives
Sitting before an unseen judge, Simin (Leila Hatami) asks for a divorce from her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi). They have finally received visas to leave Iran with their daughter and work abroad but he refuses to leave his father, in the later stages of Alzheimer’s, behind. Finding no valid grounds under the law, the judge […]
New Year’s Eve: Chris Robinson, Motorboats, Berry Bly, feasts
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Saint Rocke This booking qualifies as a musical extravaganza: Chris Robinson, who as lead singer of The Black Crowes sold 13 million records, brings his newly formed The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (curiously minus brother Rich) to Saint Rocke for a special New Year’s Eve show. Since The Black Crowes burst […]