Archive for October, 2007

• 10.26.07: Jimmy Carter Man From Plains 10/26/07

  On the Road to Legacy With an Ex-President. Jimmy Carter isn’t a real saint, but he plays one in a new documentary. That film, “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains,” was directed by Jonathan Demme and is a friendly, at times fawning, at times gaga 126-minute chronicle of the former president’s 2006 national book tour to [...]

• 10.19.07: Alejandro Escovedo at Antone’s 10/19/07

  From my previous visit to Antone’s, at it’s 32nd Anniversary Show, I was more ready for how the club would feel and change as showtime neared, how the tall dark ceiling would fade like night sky for the stars on stage, how the music downstairs in the warehouse hall would envelope the whispers and laughter [...]