Arts & Entertainment

All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics by Holloway, Carson. Narrated by May, Nadia. Publication: [Ashland, Or.] Blackstone Audio, 2007. View Details | Order Now

Architecture of Happiness by De Botton, Alain. Narrated by Vance, Simon. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.<p>One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is architecture's task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Classical Music 101: a Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music by Plotkin, Fred. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2006. From the Publisher: "In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World by Walker, Paul Robert. Narrated by Whitfield, Robert. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "In this fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph, the author brings to life Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, two talented, passionate artists, and the competitive drive that united and divided them. As this lush, imaginative history illuminates the drama surrounding the birth of a new artistic vision, it also explores the lives of other fascinating individuals, from Donatello and Masaccio to Cosimo de’ Medici and Leon Battista Alberti. The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance offers a glorious tour of fifteenth-century Florence, a bustling city on the verge of greatness, during a time of flourishing creativity."... Show More View Details | Order Now

The Gross: The Hits, the Flops-- the Summer That Ate Hollywood by Bart, Peter. Narrated by Tindle, Jonathon. Publication: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2007. View Details | Order Now

Guitar: an American Life by Brookes, Tim. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2006. From the Publisher: "What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is “wall-to-wall popular in the United States,” says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar and how it became entwined with the history of America."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House by Wilson, Richard Guy. Narrated by Hillgartner, Malcolm. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "A ""palace"" ruled by a ""queen,"" Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men, to be an estate almost without equal in the entire country. The mansion, along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' hubris, striving, and ultimate failure are the center of this saga. An extravagant product of the desire for social acceptance, the portrait covers old versus new wealth, religious differences over the building of a church, and art collecting, as well as the many people involved, from the architects, builders, and workers to the servants and staff who ran the house and gardens. Harbor Hill's story includes elements of farce and tragedy; in a sense it is an American portrait."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show, and 40 Years of Friendship by McMahon, Ed. Publication: [Carol Stream, Ill.] Blackstone Audio, 2006. From the Publisher: "Brilliant in front of the camera but shy in person, Johnny Carson seldom gave interviews. Only Ed McMahon, Carson’s personal friend and showbiz sidekick for over forty years, can tell the stories that reveal the man behind the star. This entertaining tribute features a CD-ROM of pictures, many never before published, from both McMahon’s and Carson’s private archives."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Hollywood Studios: [House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies by Mordden, Ethan. Narrated by Whitener, Barrett Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, “growing up” in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of talents and temperaments gave them their signature styles? These are the questions Ethan Mordden answers, with breezy erudition and irrepressible enthusiasm, in this fascinating and wonderfully readable book. Mordden illuminates how the style of each studio was primarily dictated by the personality, philosophy, and attitudes of its presiding mogul—and how all these factors affected the work and careers of individual actors, directors, writers, and technicians, and the success of the studio in general. "... Show More View Details | Order Now

Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz by Szwed, John F. Narrated by Gardner, Grover. Publication: [Ashland, Or.] Blackstone Audio, 2006. From the Publisher: "Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed’s fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz 101 is a vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Letters to a Young Artist by Smith, Anna Deavere. Publication: [Ashland, Or.] Blackstone Audio, 2007. View Details | Order Now

Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time by McPartland, Marian. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2007. View Details | Order Now

Opera 101: a Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera by Plotkin, Fred. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2006. From the Publisher: "Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher and former performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the riches of opera, the fastest growing of all the performing arts"... Show More View Details | Order Now

Rest Is Noise by Ross, Alex. Narrated by Gardner, Grover. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2008. View Details | Order Now

Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 by Eyman, Scott. Narrated by Morgan, Adams. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself.<p>Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his fascinating account of this exciting era, it was a time when fortunes, careers, and lives were made and lost, when the American film industry came fully into its own.<p>In this mixture of cultural and social history that is both scholarly and vastly entertaining, Eyman dispels the myths and gives us the missing chapter in the history of Hollywood, the ribbon of dreams by which America conquered the world."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Who Killed Hollywood?: --and Put the Tarnish on Tinseltown by Bart, Peter. Narrated by Lewis, Edward. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2009. From the Publisher: "In this passionate love-hate letter to the film industry, Peter Bart pulls together his best columns from Variety and GQ, outlining in detail the history and inner workings of Hollywood. In story after story, Bart shows how the major studios have diverted their energies away from production of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the industry powerful. There isn’t much range or innovation in the movies today, only a handful of salable subjects: natural disasters, aliens, dinosaurs, ghosts, monsters, or any combination thereof. All are subjects easily parlayed into theme-park environments, action figures, video games, and clothing lines. Even the once edgy independent producers like Miramax and New Line have been acquired by conglomerates. Who and what will resurrect Hollywood? Peter Bart has the answers."... Show More View Details | Order Now

Wonderful Memories of "It's a Wonderful Life" by Hawkins, Jimmy. Publication: [Ashland, Or.], [Boulder, Colo Blackstone Audio, 2007. From the Publisher: "Actor Jimmy Hawkins, who played four-year-old Tommy Bailey, takes you behind the scenes of the movie classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, to meet Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Frank Capra, and all the people who made Bedford Falls America’s favorite small town. Their memories and anecdotes take you through the movie’s creation."... Show More View Details | Order Now

You're Only As Good As Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot by Medavoy, Mike.; Young, Josh. Publication: [Ashland, Or.] : [Boulder, Colo. : Blackstone Audio, 2009. View Details | Order Now

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