posts — Reverberations

Jess Best's Saturdays of Yore

Indie pop singer Jess Best on Wesleyan University, her creative process, and nostalgia.

dialogueLinne HalpernSeptember 8, 2017music, live music, concertComment

Quasimodal: Collaboration and Love in A Capella

Playing at MASH, Quasimodal hugs and kisses their songs as they make them their own.

dialogueLinne HalpernSeptember 6, 2017live music, concert, music, linne halpernComment

Compassionate Music: Dar Williams

Acclaimed Folk-Singer Dar Williams on the function of art, songwriting, Sylvia Plath, and rebuilding community.

dialogueLinne HalpernAugust 29, 2017dialogue, nonfiction, music, art, community Comments

A Community of Response

Our Co-founder, Sage Marshall, elaborates on the importance of live response in advance of the MASH Music Festival.

essayLinne HalpernAugust 22, 2017Mash 2017, responseComment

Apathy and Excess

In Malick’s Song to Song, the characters’ apathy is contagious.

reviewLinne HalpernJuly 24, 2017film, linne halpernComment

The Sick Room: Port Moresby and Me

The experience of the protagonist in The Sheltering Sky (1949) is both relational to and refuge from a student's own illness.

essayLinne HalpernJuly 16, 2017literature, fictionComment

Identity Expression in Rebel Music

A dialogic exploration of the art created by women-identifying Senegalese rappers.

dialogueLinne HalpernJune 30, 2017musicComment

Painful Joy

One listener explores how both pain and joy co-exist within Jason Isbell's new album, The Nashville Sound (2017.)

reviewLinne HalpernJune 29, 2017music, blues, americana

Surface Reading

A meditation on the casualties of time and the motions of motherhood through Nicholas Nixon's photographic series The Brown Sisters.

essayLinne HalpernJune 25, 2017photography, video, literature, motherhood, timeComment

Wyatt David Welles's Interactive Art

Wyatt on creating a dialogue between visual artists, theatrical performers, and audience members.

dialogueLinne HalpernJune 20, 2017Theater, Visual Art, linne halpernComment

Langhorne Slim in Telluride

Two friends reflect on Langhorne Slim and the Law’s concert, and their message of love.

reviewLinne HalpernJune 14, 2017music, live music, linne halpern, sage marshallComment

Rose-Colored Romance

In Goodbye First Love (2011), a young couple’s idealized version of love dissolves.

essayLinne HalpernJune 8, 2017linne halpern, filmComment

Ani Yahzid Brings Diversity to the Outdoors

Ani on what drew him to the outdoors, why he started making films, and his upcoming project.

dialogueLinne HalpernJune 2, 2017outdoors, film, photography, special projects, sage marshall

Mutating Visions

A moving tribute to Denis Johnson's (1949-2017) prose through one reader's changing perceptions of his work.

essayLinne HalpernMay 29, 2017fiction, tribute, stories, sage marshall

A.O. Scott Talks Shop

We talked about what it means to be a critic, a whole slew of movies and books, and The Boss.

dialogueLinne HalpernMay 23, 2017criticism, interview, linne halpern, sage marshallComment

Ferocious Love

In Peter Heller's Celine, the American West creates the perfect landscape within which memory and family can be both lost and found.

reviewLinne HalpernMay 3, 2017fiction, literature, american, sage marshall

Sidewalk Chalk

Linne Halpern reflects on Joan Didian and her first summer alone in NYC.

essayLinne HalpernApril 28, 2017nonfiction, linne halpernComment

Unfathomable Pain

Sage Marshall realizes the limits of empathy and the downfalls of masculine pride while watching The Salesman.

reviewLinne HalpernApril 21, 2017FIlm, Movie

"To Prom or To Hell"

Maddie Woda ponders Heathers: The Musical and her high school experience.

essayLinne HalpernApril 18, 2017musical, maddie wodaComment

The Resonance of a Restless Creature

Shelby Elsbree, a former professional ballerina, reflects on Wendy Whelan and life after dance.

reviewLinne HalpernApril 12, 2017Documentary, Dance, Film, Ballet, shelby elsbreeComment