Voice Of Vashon

Leave Me Alone, Don’t Leave Me Lonely At least since Judy Garland instructed us to “make the yuletide gay,” we have been acquainted with the feeling that something is rotten in the state of the holiday. Judy promises that we just have to wait until next year when faithful friends who are dear to us […]

This week’s show takes its inspiration from the Dostoevsky short story, “Belye nochi,” and more particularly, from Luchino Visconti’s radiant film adaptation, Le notti bianche (1957)—the White Nights. Although Dostoevsky was referring to the famous (perhaps anguished) summer nights in St. Petersburg when the sun doesn’t set until after midnight, and the sky never reaches […]