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The Correspondent

It’s like an Elizabeth Strout novel. That’s what someone e-mailed me when I was halfway through “The Correspondent” and the similarity resonated, as in you’ve got normal women, not famous, not setting the world on fire, and their lives, opinions, personalities. Not that Virginia Evans is in the league of Elizabeth Strout. If you’ve never […]

Riot Women

How come the most innovative things in music are created by outsiders? I love, love, LOVE “Riot Women.” I was aware of it, wasn’t that excited about watching it, but searching for shows after finishing “Blue Lights” I was doing research and I found out “Riot Women” was a SALLY WAINWRIGHT show! Wainwright was the […]

Blue Lights-Season 3

There is an argument between a live-in couple that is so accurate, so true to life, that I literally jolted upright and stared straight into the screen, because I’d been there and done that, more than once. Now if this were an American series on Netflix everybody would be talking about it. Actually, I was […]

Alex Skolnick-This Week’s Podcast

Guitarist Alex Skolnick got his start with Testament, but has broadened his interest to jazz with the Alex Skolnick Trio and has played with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Metal Allegiance and… Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-skolnick/id1316200737?i=1000745276889 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/2c7259dc-cd5f-4fbb-9dae-8375b21f5ae8/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-alex-skolnick