'Hacksaw Ridge' is Gibson’s most honest and compelling work as a director, not because he is condoning violence but instead highlighting its repugnance.
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MLB’s Automatic Intentional Walk – Game Changer or Changing the Game?
The automatic intentional walk is a brilliant idea – right up there with national holidays on Mondays and the Common Core Curriculum.
Read More »Music Review: Crystal Fairy – ‘Crystal Fairy’ (Supergroup feat. members of The Melvins, At the Drive-In, & Le Butcherettes)
One-off or not, 'Crystal Fairy' should still go down as a late career highlight for The Melvins maestros (Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover) and a breakout performance for Teri Gender Bender.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ at the Classic Theatre
Mark McCarver's production, takes full advantage of the play's comic aspects, and it's the right choice. The house was packed on opening night and there were lots of laughs.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Chicago’ the Musical
The direction, choreography, and dancing in this version seemed lacklustre and short on energy and charisma.
Read More »Personal Finance Strategies That Millennials Are Taking To Heart
In some regards, young adults are ahead of where their parents were at a similar age when it comes to frugality and building wealth.
Read More »Music Review: Alex Weitz – ‘Luma’
Weitz writes moving narratives with his saxophone, varying the traits of each track and keeping the album progressing to another level with each arrangement.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Blurred Lines’ from Girl Be Heard at HERE
Rape culture strikes every two minutes, when someone is sexually assaulted; then disappears in the twinkling of an eye as if nothing important has happened. The brilliance of 'Blurred Lines' is that it nets this slippery monster and pins it down with irony, satire and ridicule, all the while examining how it parades itself publicly, cloaked in the righteousness of normalcy.
Read More »Music Review: The Damned – ‘Damned, Damned, Damned: 40th Anniversary Edition’
If you are a fan of punk rock, then you more than likely have a copy of this album somewhere, so this might not be an essential purchase, you’d think. I think that the clarity on this album and the immediacy of the music despite the four decades since its recording makes it essential.
Read More »Music Review: Rush – ‘2112’ (40th Anniversary)
For those who wore out their versions on record, cassette, or even 8-track, the 40th Anniversary edition makes for a great replacement.
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