Ted Burke‘BUGSY” starring Warren Beatty and Annette BeningHad a fine time watching Bugsy recently, a near gem of a modern gangster film. A 1991 effort starring Warren Beatty as Ben “Bugsy” Siegel…Aug 20Aug 20
Ted Burke‘BUGSY” starring Warren Beatty and Annette BeningI delved into some old DVD’s long shelved in the library and came across a winner, a fine movie all around. Bugsy ,a near gem of a modern…Aug 20Aug 20
Ted BurkePOETS WHO DISCOVER THE WORLDInteresting things afoot in discussions about the precious craft of writing poetry, an endeavor fraught with personal assessments of…Jun 1Jun 1
Ted BurkeMike Keneally and the New Art RockLegend has it that Mike Keneally was hired by Frank Zappa in 1988 as a “stunt guitarist,” because the eccentric composer realized he…Apr 12, 2023Apr 12, 2023
Ted BurkeHAPPY BIRTHDAY, PUNKLast February, comedian Lauren Vinopal proposed in Slate that we lower the critical mass of stress and anxiety of our time by abolishing…Apr 12, 2023Apr 12, 2023
Ted BurkePOETRY GETS YOU HOT UNDER THE COLLAROnce upon a time there was an irrate participant on Slate’s now-defunct Poems Said discusser was apparently disgusted with poetry editor…Mar 26, 2022Mar 26, 2022
Ted BurkeSONNY STITT AND MILES DAVISIn the seventies, while a young man appropriately bored with the slamming two-dimensional dynamics of late-period jazz-rock (which had…Mar 22, 2022Mar 22, 2022
Ted BurkeDFW BFDDavid Foster Wallace was an interesting writer who had dire need of a vicious but fair editor. In his writing he notices everything that is…Mar 9, 2022Mar 9, 2022
Ted BurkeBOB DYLAN’S ASPHALT RASHOf course there had to be a Dylan record on a list of albums that had a high impact in the manner I put my straight shoulder to the wheel…Mar 7, 2022Mar 7, 2022
Ted BurkeT.S.ELIOT COOKS YOUR GOOSET.S.Eliot wrote in a time when the Universe seemed to be rent, with heaven and hell bleeding into one another, a career on the heels of two…Feb 20, 2022Feb 20, 2022
