Category: Culture Corner

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    Films of Exploration and Adventure: The Lost City of Z and The Lighthouse Bernie Langs Spoiler alert below! In the time of movies featuring a multitude of superhero comic book stories, cliched comedies, and explosive action adventures with mindless plots and throw away dialogue, we can still rejoice knowing that studios will occasionally take chances…

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    Comparing Ancient and Contemporary Ideas of Time: The Writings of Plotinus and Carlo Rovelli Bernie Langs Plotinus (A.D. 204-270) founded the school of Neoplatonism and selections of his work, The Enneads, reveal his ideas which blend the thoughts of Aristotle, Plato, and other schools of ancient Greek philosophy. If one has read some of the…

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    An Interview with 2001: A Space Odyssey Star Keir Dullea Bernie Langs  Keir Dullea is a stage and film actor best known for his leading role in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece and genre-changing movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. During an hour-long phone interview from his home in Westport, Connecticut, Mr. Dullea’s voice and his sharp…

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    Collecting Art Bernie Langs I’ve been acquiring works of art for most of my life, starting with the 1960s-style posters that graced the walls of my childhood bedroom. If you keep an eye out at galleries and book/gift shops, you can purchase some great and affordable pieces that will brighten living and work spaces, keeping…

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    An Interview with Musician and Composer Izzi Ramkissoon Bernie Langs When you speak with the award-winning electroacoustic multimedia composer, performer, and audiovisual artist Izzi Ramkissoon about music, you are immediately swept up by two things. The first is his zen-like manner, which invites you to engage and share his passion for music and the creative…

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    Television Review: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story and Springsteen on Broadway Bernie Langs Photo Credits: Netflix If one believes that we’re living in a golden age of television, that blessing comes with a bonus of a golden age of rock and roll documentaries. Recent superlative films airing on Netflix and other cable services…

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    A Garden of Sports and Musical Delights Bernie Langs The period of the mid- to late- 1960s and early 1970s in America was the greatest window in history to experience childhood and adolescence. The whole world had the opportunity to enjoy the fantastic and exciting revolutionary developments in the arts at that time. A new…

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    The Piero Tour in Italy Bernie Langs   While familiarizing myself over the years with the pictures painted by the Masters of the Italian Renaissance, I have found that one artist stands out as singularly enigmatic in his body of work, Piero della Francesca (c.1415-1492). I have read various summaries about della Francesca in art…

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    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones Bernie Langs In December of 1968 The Rolling Stones released Beggars Banquet just months before they would be introduced as “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.” The record, which features tunes by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards…

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    Bernie Langs Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Stephen Kurkjian discusses the Gardner Museum Theft and the Podcast “Last Seen” Stephen Kurkjian (photo courtesy of Mr. Kurkjian) Courtyard of the Gardner Museum in Boston (photo: Bernie Langs) “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee” by Rembrandt, stolen in 1990 from the Gardner Museum (photo: Wikipedia) At 1:24 a.m.…