Karen Peterson

1 week ago | acousticguitar.com | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Adam Miller |Karen Peterson

In October 2024, Jason Isbell walked into New York City’s historic Electric Lady Studios with one guitar—a Martin 0-17 from 1940—and a satchel of new songs. For most of his career Isbell has worked with bands, from his stint in the early 2000s with Drive-By Truckers to many years leading the roots-rocking 400 Unit, but his plan this time was to go completely solo and acoustic.

2 weeks ago | awardswatch.com | Karen Peterson

Hollywood has long been obsessed with stories about ordinary men finding inner strength to do extraordinary things. Most often that strength comes from grief and a need for vengeance when tragedy strikes close to home. In The Amateur, Rami Malek plays one such man, a genius CIA analyst who leaves his Langley desk to venture out into the world to track down and kill the terrorists who murdered his wife.

3 weeks ago | awardswatch.com | Karen Peterson

It’s been three years since the fifth season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale in which June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her baby daughter Nicole boarded a westbound train, fleeing another home as Toronto became unsafe for American refugees. Her husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle) fell behind and was arrested, but June found herself face to face with an old enemy turned fellow refugee, Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahavski) and her infant son Noah.

1 month ago | awardswatch.com | Karen Peterson

Gangster films have been a staple of cinema since the earliest days and over the last fifty years, few actors are as synonymous with the genre as Robert De Niro. With a career that includes roles like young Vito Corleone and Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, why settle for one De Niro in your mafia movie when you can have two? This is exactly what Barry Levinson delivers with his new film The Alto Knights. It’s 1957 and Frank Costello (De Niro) enters the lobby of his New York apartment building.

1 month ago | acousticguitar.com | Teja Gerken |Roger Deitz |Karen Peterson |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

From the outside, the Music Emporium looks entirely unassuming: a small strip mall storefront next to a bagel shop in the quiet, leafy town of Lexington, Massachusetts. But open the door, and the sight would widen the eyes of any acoustic guitar aficionado: a bright, airy showroom with scores of Martin, Taylor, and Collings guitars on the wall, along with Santa Cruz, Froggy Bottom, Lowden, Atkin, and other boutique builders.