Renee K Nicholson

Oct 25, 2024 | forewordreviews.com | Renee K Nicholson

Humanizing Business One Leader at a Time Katherine Lazaruk Business Expert Press (218pp)978-1-63742-714-9 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 With its emphasis on flow, creativity, and connection, the business guide Executive Being is appealing in suggesting holistic approaches to leadership.

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Rick Quinn |Will Layman |Chris Osmond |Renee K Nicholson

Proof of LifeAmigo / Verve Forecast / RepublicIs Joy Oladokun making worship music for a diverse, scattered, and traumatized world? I think so. In the lead-up to the release of her fourth studio album, Proof of Life, singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun posted frequently on her creative and entertaining TikTok account. In a March 2023 posting, she acted out a playful conversation between her current self and herself ten years in the past.

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Steve Horowitz |Will Layman |Chris Osmond |Renee K Nicholson

Edge of EverywhereIndependentDoug Levitt has spent 12 years and 120,000 miles riding the Greyhound bus all over America. He has met with his fellow passengers and heard their personal stories. He’s turned a dozen of their tales into songs for Edge of Everywhere. The common theme Levitt discovered is incorporated into the album’s title. None of us are at home, but we are all almost there. We live on the edge no matter where we are.

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Will Layman |Chris Osmond |Renee K Nicholson |Trent Kelly

Steely Dan were on a roll when the rock duo (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen) released Gaucho in 1980. It reached nine on the album chart, with “Hey, Nineteen” becoming a number ten single. Big FM radio, 1970s hits (“Do It Again”, “Reelin’ in the Years”, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”, “Black Cow”) made this run of seven albums in 11 years the most successful mash-up of rock and sophisticated jazz elements, not to mention lyrics rife with obscure references, in history. Then Steely Dan broke up.

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Michael Barrett |Will Layman |Chris Osmond |Renee K Nicholson

Violent Streets (Bôryoku gai) adopts no false title. Hideo Gosha’s contribution to Japan’s 1970s yakuza genre is as violent and nihilistic as its bleakest colleagues and decorates its frame in plenty of highly stylized compositions. Its raison d’etre is this plastic surface of nearly abstract mayhem, which illustrates its thesis on economic power. Film Movement Classics offers the film on Region 1 Blu-ray for the first time, shortly after they unveiled Gosha’s Samurai Wolf diptych.