It isn’t every day you encounter a pop-disco musical about a buoyant aspiring circus performer and a brooding aspiring rock singer with competing Mommy issues falling in love in Mexico City against the electricized rearrangements of the Indigo Girls. And that’s not exactly lamentable, because I wouldn’t categorize English-language Glitter …
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In her professional life, Cyndi Lauper has been a kaleidoscope of personae: ’80s pop hitmaker; New Wave fashion guru; proto-Third-Wave feminist; LGBTQ activist; Broadway composer and lyricist; chameleon powerhouse vocalist; and bubble gum punk Brooklynese comedian. Alison Ellwood’s 140-minute Lauper rockumentary Let the Canary Sing uncovers yet another side of …
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Deepfake photos, made by movement graphic software program that seamlessly morphs faces till the typical viewer can’t inform who’s actual or pretend in a video, have the ability to vary the social and political panorama endlessly. (In an period when electoral enemies lob “fake news” at one another all day …
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The Indigo Girls know full well they’ve been treated as a punchline — and it still hurts them. But it’s this lack of cool placidity that renders the alt-rock duo roguishly appealing. Amy Ray, the dark-haired irascible one, and Emily Saliers, the strawberry blonde ocean of emotions, have never shied …
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