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MARCH 2014
Filling the hunger since 1992
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The legendary comedian may look like he rolled in off the street, but he remains one of our most articulate, diverse, accessible, and still somehow mysterious stars.
With the 2014 release of Kin (<-->), Pat Metheny adds one more notch—another restlessly searching album that marks the zone between all jazz, all rock and all-world music—to his belt of aesthetic enterprises filled with zeal and innovation.
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City Beat | 5 Backstage | 5 Sally Friedman | 38 Jim Delpino | 39
A THOUSAND WORDS Hoofing It | 7
EXHIBITIONS | 8 The Bucks County Project Gallery Delaware Art Museum Red Filter Gallery ART Jason Bateman in Bad Words.
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When Calendars Told Stories | 9 Michelangelo Meets Mickey | 10
FILM CINEMATTERS | 12 Bad Words
SINGER / SONGWRITER | 30 Mark T. Small; Amy Black The Paley Brothers; Lucinda Williams Johnny Cash JAZZ LIBRARY | 31 Harry “Sweets” Edison NICK’S PICKS | 32 Ulysses Owens Jr.; Catherine Russell Eli Degibri; Mike DiRubbo Stranahan, Zaleski, Rosato
FOOD The Bridgetown Mill House Inn | 34 Amuse | 36
ETCETERA Harper’s Index | 41 L.A. Times Crossword | 42 Agenda | 43
KERESMAN ON FILM | 14 RoboCop BAD MOVIE | 16 Winter’s Tale
Robert De Niro in The Bag Man.
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REEL NEWS | 18 Inside Llewyn Davis; The Great Beauty Long Walk to Freedom; Let the Fire Burn
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FILM ROUNDUP | 20 The Bag Man; In Secret Omar; Gloria
KERESMAN ON DISC | 28 Chris Campbell; Arlene Sierra Regina Carter; Scott H. Biram Matt Wilson Quartet / John Medeski Ken Peplowski; Bettye Swann The Farewell Drifters
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PAT METHENY | 24
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Nicholas Monro (b. 1936), Dancers (ed. 2/75), 1970, silkscreen. Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley. Gift of Ackerman Foundation, 1980
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ON THE COVER: Bill Murray. Interview on page 22.
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