Sound and Vision Magazine

For its 50th anniversary — along with the hoopla of a Cannes Film Festival re-release, a limited theatrical engagement in more than 200 theaters, and Richard Burton’s posthumously receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to Elizabeth Taylor’s — Cleopatra has been newly digitally restored in a 243-minute original theatrical cut.

Steve Wynn was right there at the forefront when the alternative music scene exploded in the '80s. As a member of The Dream Syndicate, Wynn helped usher in the movement known as The Paisley Underground.

We describe famous musicians as “brilliant” or “innovative” or “creative,” but mostly, they aren’t. They’re just making minor modifications to a harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic framework borrowed from musicians who preceded them—and those earlier musicians did the same thing, too. And so on and so on.