LONDON — LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury ’s sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century — minus his “exquisite clutter.” Garden Lodge, as the neo-Georgian brick home in the posh Kensington neighborhood is known, is for sale by … Read more
Recorded on January 13, 1956, at New York City’s Fine Sound Studios, Pres and Teddy is a joy. With Lester Young on tenor saxophone, Teddy Wilson on piano, Gene Ramey on bass, and Jo Jones on drums, this Norman Granz-produced album for the recently established Verve label is one of a handful of great saxophone … Read more
Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher isn’t an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story. It is instead a reimagining of the entire Poe oeuvre, a resurrected corpus operis with all the bodies laid out on the table, given new, feverish life inside the framework of Roderick Usher’s legacy of doom. Working … Read more