Category Archives: reviews

Gourmet No More

Posted on October 9, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Back in May, in one of my periodic rants about the lack of “wake up and smell the coffee” change in response to the deepest recession since the Depression, I did a little commentary on Gourmet and bon apetit magazines. … Continue reading →

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Mad Men– On Power

Posted on September 29, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

People watching Sunday’s episode of Mad Men on AMC, season 3, episode 7, called “Seven Twenty-Three” might have thought that they had now officially gone over to watching a soap opera. Flirting with handsome men and school teachers, rendezvous, and … Continue reading →

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The Last Day

Posted on September 13, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

A friend asked me to read the book The Last Day by James Landis and tell her what I think. She sent me an advance copy and I told her I’d post my response. It isn’t the kind of book … Continue reading →

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Main Street

Posted on August 11, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I’ve been reading Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street and I am totally into it. For the first time in a long time all I want to do is read the book. I look forward to each episode and description. And so … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Homosexual… Kushner, part 3

Posted on June 16, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Tony Kushner’s new play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, premiering at the Guthrie in Minneapolis and already booked for a Broadway run, confirms for me what I have long suspected about … Continue reading →

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Tony Kushner, part 2

Posted on May 31, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Saturday night I went to see the collection of short plays by Tony Kushner, Tiny Kushner, as the last selection of our yearlong subscription to the Dowling Theater at the Guthrie, the black box theater. The whole season has showcased … Continue reading →

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Caroline, or Change Review

Posted on May 6, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

An old friend from Grinnell College, David DeYoung, runs a popular music and theater review website, HowWasTheShow.com covering all sorts of performing arts in the Twin Cities. He encouraged me to write a review of The Cartaker by Harold Pinter … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Change?

Posted on May 3, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

For a couple weeks now, I’ve been stewing and brewing up thoughts about the lack of change by the culture and media over the financial crisis. It’s almost like the H1N1 virus– is this what a pandemic is like? One … Continue reading →

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Herzog 2

Posted on March 7, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

We watched Encounters at the End of the World last Sunday, and then Burden of Dreams, the documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo, last night. Werner Herzog brings about no end of amusement. One of my favorite things was the … Continue reading →

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Herzog

Posted on March 1, 2009 by susanmsink@gmail.com

It’s still winter, and the house is still under construction, so it was a great time for a Werner Herzog film festival! I’ve been really engaged thinking about the whole nature-mankind-culture-Romantic-Classical paradigm, too, and so wanted to go back and … Continue reading →

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