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NewFest: Celebrating the Queer in Celluloid 26 Aug 2013 | 05:47 am
It's that time of year again -- or what used to be that time of year. NewFest is here (September 6-11). Yes, the celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and what-have-you cinema is back fo...
Of Beauty In Grey 25 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. David Fickling Books. Some small books cleverly conceal the magnitude of their contents, especially one that must be elusive in order to preserve the int...
Quote of the Week: Zora Neale Hurston 23 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Zora Neale Hurston (7 January 1891 - 28 January 1960), American folklorist, anthropologist, and author.
Artist of the Month: Lily & Madeleine 21 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
Rare that I'm this knocked out by a new act, single, or album, but this works on all three fronts. Lily & Madeleine, two young sisters (16 & 18-years old) from Indianapolis, are certainly deserving of...
Little Q and A: Sean O'Connor + Bradley Rubenstein 19 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's get the background stuff out of the way -- the rest will be more interesting. You are from Ohio. Was starting out there influential in any way other than making you want to l...
The Sign of the Four: Elementary Existentialism 18 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case." I defy you to stop reading a novel that starts like that. The Sign of the F...
Video of the Week: Pokey LaFarge - "Central Time" 17 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
Throwback Dust Bowl Americana party time with Pokey LaFarge! A little Jimmy Rogers, some Leon Redbone, and plenty of pomade. Debut album was produced by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show and relea...
Quote of the Week: Erwin Schrödinger 16 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
"For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice." Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August...
The Prolific Georges Simenon 15 Aug 2013 | 10:48 am
The Belgian-born Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a literary phenomenon of the 20th century, giving Balzac a run for his money, at least in terms of output. According to Wikipedia, he wrote over 200 no...
Cine-Simenon: Georges Simenon on Film 15 Aug 2013 | 09:26 am
The Belgian-born Georges Simenon (1903-1989) wrote over 200 novels (by Wikipedia's count) plus many shorter works. The New York Times estimates that number (including his memoirs and nonfiction works)...
