SXSW Film Review: ‘How It Ends’ – Pandemic Filmmaking

It’s the last day on Earth. One woman walks around Los Angeles seeking closure and one last party be | Continue reading


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SXSW Film Review: ‘How It Ends’ – Pandemic Filmmaking

It’s the last day on Earth. One woman walks around Los Angeles seeking closure and one last party be | Continue reading


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Comic Review: ‘Heaven No Hell’ by DeForge from Drawn+Quarterly

Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge from Drawn & Quarterly is an anthology of stories that defy ge | Continue reading


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Comic Review: ‘Heaven No Hell’ by DeForge from Drawn+Quarterly

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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review: Nanfu Wang’s ‘In The Same Breath’

Nanfu Wang's documentary In the Same Breath chronicles the events related to the COVID-19 breakout i | Continue reading


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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review: Nanfu Wang’s ‘In The Same Breath’

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‘Infinitum: Subject Unknown’ – Q&A with Sir Ian McKellen and filmmakers Tori Butler-Hart and Matthew Butler-Hart

Paus, a platform dedicated to independent films, recently hosted an advanced live streaming of Infin | Continue reading


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‘Infinitum: Subject Unknown’ – Q&A with Sir Ian McKellen and filmmakers Tori Butler-Hart and Matthew Butler-Hart

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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review: ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil’

What takes Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil beyond the interest of pop music fandom is its unabas | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2021: Friday-Saturday, March 19-20

Another couple days of SXSW Music Festival 2021 came and went (March 19-20, 2021). Because of its re | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2021: March 17-18

Regarding the showcase format, I think my opinion on SXSW Music Festival 2021 has turned more positi | Continue reading


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Music Review: Alice Phoebe Lou ‘Glow’

Glow is the latest release from Berlin based South African Alice Phoebe Lou. Phoebe Lou first came t | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: Six Little-known Artists You Ought to Hear

Here’s a quick look at half a dozen new EPs and full-length albums from artists you might not have h | Continue reading


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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review ‘Executive Order’

Executive Order, ‘Medida Provisória,’ the dynamic, often poetic dystopian thriller draws one in with | Continue reading


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SXSW 2021: Beyond Virtual to XR

During the COVID pandemic it has, unfortunately, become common for film festivals and trade shows to | Continue reading


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Music Review: Karen LeFrak, ‘Interlude, Vol. 1: Harmony’ (Performed by Pianist Doeke)

Composer Karen LeFrak has just issued the first volume in a four-album project called Interlude, dis | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy: The Complete Collection by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: The Complete Collection, published by Pan Macmillan, contains | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2021: Tuesday, March 16

SXSW Music Festival 2021 made its SXSW Online debut on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. In writing that lede | Continue reading


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Theater Interview: Emma McDonald from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

A new digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray is available online now through March 31. Wri | Continue reading


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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review: ‘The Oxy Kingpins’

The documentary The Oxy Kingpins currently screening online at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival is an imp | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2021: Preview (March 16-20)

What does an online music festival look like? I wonder how South by Southwest organizers are going t | Continue reading


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Exclusive Interview: Composer Karen LeFrak on New Album ‘Interlude, Vol. 1: Harmony’

Composer Karen LeFrak's work draws praise from artists of many different worlds, from diva Renée Fle | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘The Fiends of Nightmaria”by Steven Erikson

In the novella The Fiends of Nightmaria, published by Macmillan, Steven Erikson brings back two of h | Continue reading


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March 2020 – March 2021: The Year of Living Dangerously

As I turned the calendar pages during this past year, I kept thinking that this was the year of livi | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Nasrin’

We often think of documentary movies as dry and uninspiring. Well, the documentary Nasrin, we'll cha | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: New Treasures from Bob Dylan’s Vaults, Plus More Notable Releases

At this point, you might understandably be starting to suspect that Bob Dylan’s vaults are as big as | Continue reading


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Exclusive Interview: Maestro David Stern on Opera Fuoco’s ‘Figaro in the City’ and Palm Beach Opera’s Live-Audience Return

David Stern's musical life spans three continents, and the pandemic hasn't slowed him down. As found | Continue reading


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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Tono Monogatari’ by Mizuki from Drawn+Quarterly

Tono Monogatari is Shigeru Mizuki’s graphic narrative take on the classic Japanese book of legends, | Continue reading


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Music Review: Will Liverman and Paul Sánchez: ‘Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers’

Baritone Will Liverman says it better than I could, in the liner notes to his new album with pianist | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche’

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, form Modern Films, is not your average documentary about a musician. Th | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: The Band’s ‘Stage Fright’ Expanded, Plus Sara Petite, Domenic Cicala, and the Red Step

To call an album a group’s third best would usually be faint praise, but not where The Band | Continue reading


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Music Review: CYRRCA – ‘CYRRCA’

Who is CYRRCA? An ambient producer, a musical artist – but on his new self-titled album one could be | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Sparks Like Stars’ by Nadia Hashimi

Sparks Like Stars, by Nadia Hashimi, published by Harper Collins, pulls the reader behind the curtai | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Last Stands’ by Michael Walsh

Last Stands, subtitled “Why Men Fight When All is Lost”, by Michael Walsh covers much more than the | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Last Stands’ by Michael Walsh

Last Stands, subtitled “Why Men Fight When All is Lost”, by Michael Walsh covers much more than the | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘I Care A Lot’ – Taking Elder Abuse to the Extreme

Netflix’s new film I Care A Lot is about the worst nightmare that could happen to vulnerable senior | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘I Care A Lot’ – Taking Elder Abuse to the Extreme

Netflix’s new film I Care A Lot is about the worst nightmare that could happen to vulnerable senior | Continue reading


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Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts

We all need food, clean water, and a place to live. And climate change threatens them all. Global he | Continue reading


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Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts

We all need food, clean water, and a place to live. And climate change threatens them all. Global he | Continue reading


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Music Review: Dax Pierson – ‘Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction’

Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction, by Dax Pierson, is the latest release from the Oakland | Continue reading


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Music Review: Dax Pierson – ‘Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction’

Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction, by Dax Pierson, is the latest release from the Oakland | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: The Complete Tommy James & the Shondells, Plus Lloyd Cole Live

Tommy James has racked up a whopping 17 Top 40 hits, including two No. 1s, and sold more than 1 | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: The Complete Tommy James & the Shondells, Plus Lloyd Cole Live

Tommy James has racked up a whopping 17 Top 40 hits, including two No. 1s, and sold more than 1 | Continue reading


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Film Review: Steve Zahn Gets Dramatic in Transgender Tale ‘Cowboys’

Cowboys, the new film by writer-director Anna Kerrigan, often wears its heart on its sleeve, but it' | Continue reading


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Film Review: Steve Zahn Gets Dramatic in Transgender Tale ‘Cowboys’

Cowboys, the new film by writer-director Anna Kerrigan, often wears its heart on its sleeve, but it' | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Bliss’ – Amazon’s Surreal New Sci-Fi Romance

Bliss, a sci-fi romance now streaming on Amazon Prime, will do as much to delight you as it will to | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Bliss’ – Amazon’s Surreal New Sci-Fi Romance

Bliss, a sci-fi romance now streaming on Amazon Prime, will do as much to delight you as it will to | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: Live Sets from Little Steven, Plus Mac Leaphart and Michael Lawson

When I met with Steve Van Zandt (aka Little Steven) in 2019, I asked him whether the brand | Continue reading


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