Although active for only a year and a half in its original 1964 permutation, The Skatalites is an institution, its musicians having formed the backbone of ska. The band's manager and occasional keyboard player discusses the origins of that genre and keeping The Skatalites alive.
The latest in law-professor-turned-filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's (40-odd) films is Crazy Horse, a coolly artistic examination of a sexually provocative cabaret that has operated in Paris since 1951.