CULTURE

December 29, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

Show Pieces was successfully crowd-funded back in 2013 with the beautiful finished product coming to fruition in August 2015. Mitch Jenkins' boredom and a shoot called 'Dodging Molly' formed a desire to create ...

Liza Burkin: O, The Things You’ll Find By The Side Of The Road

December 20, 2016

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS

Liza Burkin is the author of "O, The Things You'll Find By The Side Of The Road And Other Bicycle Poems", a chapbook released in Newport, Rhode Island this past November. The self-published book contains thirty pages of baikus (bike + haiku ="baiku") and o...

Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+Evolution

December 18, 2016

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE

For the last three years, jazz musician and singer Esperanza Spalding has been working on her latest creative feat. The year of 2016 brought about Esperanza's completed work; her new album "Emily's D+Evolution"...

Right in the Flesh: Chenille’s First Album ‘Samen’

Jennifer Gori

December 17, 2016

BFI London Film Festival: A Monster Calls, Spaceship and Without Name

December 11, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

The BFI London Film Festival showcased some of the most exciting up-and-coming releases in central London, with an eclectic mix of film, documentary, and shorts, in a plethora of genre, form and style in every location. The three films that particularly c...

Entering the Coven with Goat’s New Album, Requiem

December 6, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Leave everything you thought you knew behind you and become one with the coven, the coven called Goat. Shroud in mystery and mask, Goat have continue their growth from musical obscurity to cult following an...

Nola and the Clones: Interview with Filmmaker Graham Jones

Anmarie Soucie

December 1, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

Irish filmmaker Graham Jones’ latest work – Nola and the Clones – follows the story of a young homeless girl on the streets of Dublin, where she encounters a series of men eerily similar to one another. “It...

Gobblefest @ Shady Lea Guitars

November 22, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Luthier, noun: Individual who creates stringed musical instruments. In the spirit of the US holiday of giving thanks, Shady Lea Guitars is holding Gobblefest to celebrate Thanksgiving and the grand opening of their new location. Formerly located in North ...

Projection: A Skate Film In Paris

Jennifer Susan Jones

November 21, 2016

A deft young skater mounts his deck and glides through the wet and dry streets of Paris, his moving image flickering between days and nights, as iconic French architecture decorates the background with beautifu...

10,000 Things by Erik Ehn: The Wilbury Theatre Group

October 31, 2016

CULTURE, PERFORMANCE

Providence, Rhode Island, USA is the site of the world premier of play "10,000 Things" presented by The Wilbury Group through this Halloween weekend. The Wilbury Group is a theater group of collaborative a...

Strange Books: The Literature of Mike Russell

Rowan Coughlin

October 22, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

Mike Russell is the author of Strange Medicine and Nothing is Strange, two collections of short stories that deal in the realm of outlandish peculiarity. The phrase “good things come in small packages” comes to mind for while each story is a tiny peek into...

Film: The Neon Demon

October 13, 2016

Director and writer Nicholas Winding Refn teams up with screenplay writers, Mary Laws and Polly Stenham, cinematographer, Natasha Braier and composer, Cliff Martinez (of Drive (2011) and Fifth Element (1997) ...

Swans: Future Destination Unknown

Danai Molocha

September 29, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Michael Gira and his sonic cohorts gave birth to Swans in the famously bleak, dystopian cityscape of early 80's downtown New York. Minimalist, ritualistic and downright brutal, the band delivered a relentle...

Intimate Mini Documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier

September 6, 2016

In only an average of twelve minutes, mini documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier leave you feeling connected to the subjects of the films. Short stories capture the subject's feelings about their passions and their chosen life path. Incredibly thorough, ...

Art Pop Gets Redefined with Anomie Belle’s ‘Flux’

Daniel Barron

August 27, 2016

ART, MUSIC, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

"You know you'll never have to look back now," sings Anomie Belle on the hopeful opening of her latest release 'Flux'. Across multiple EPs and now three full-lengths, the versatile multi-instrumentalist has...

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Life of Significant Soil: Interview with Film Director Michael Irish

Justine Morrow

August 17, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

When the lights dim, and the first scenes of a film splay their light onto the eagerly awaiting faces, I imagine Michael Irish sitting in the back with baited breath. Imagine the exhaustion, excitement, and...

Poetry of the Lens: Contemporary Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Anmarie Soucie

August 10, 2016

Tattooed across the heart with a Bert and Ernie duo, Melbournian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been unapologetically making films since the tenderoni age of single digits, when he was just barely old enough to grasp a camera, let alone its understandi...

Interview with Anomie Belle & Redd Walitzki

Kindra Nikole

August 7, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Seattle-based artists Anomie Belle and Redd Walitzki have come together to create an absolutely decadent collaboration in alignment with Anomie’s newest album, Flux. Readers are invited to experience 'Lover...

A Look Back on Drive (2011): Movie Review and Commentary

July 27, 2016