As he approaches his 60th birthday this summer, instrumental rock guitar hero Joe Satriani appears to be trying not to become a nostalgia act via his top-selling breakthrough release, Surfing With the Alien, from 1987. Yet he’s dipping his toe in that water on his current From Surfing to Shockwave tour by playing tunes from that time-tested gem through his latest CD, last … [Read more...]
‘Yoni’ tells hero’s story with little art, much treacle
If you learn one thing from the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, it’s that the title character was a poster boy for patriotism. The movie tells you this so many times, in fact, that you can probably enter it for a five-minute portion and walk away with this theme. The eldest brother of Israel’s current prime minister and a top 20 finalist in a 2005 poll of the … [Read more...]