Being a kid in the early 80s was tough. Thatcher’s Britain was like an amusement park that had failed a safety test -- it looked fun, but was really a potential death trap. Heroin “screwed you...
logos lobos, twisty-tongue turbos, trend setters, go getters, trap setters, bloodletters—— howl! prey like owl—— growl! free like fowl—— scowl! be like now—— now! be like now——...
We have lived long enough to witness the second coming of JC. No, not that one. The one with the shorter beard. James Cameron, that is. He can’t walk on water, but he’s bringing us the next best...
Julie Powell has lead a charmed life. A former government desk-slave who turned to cooking and writing in a bid for a more exciting life, she took on the task of cooking her way through Julia...
"Smoking or non-smoking?” Is throwaway line by Hudson in “Aliens,” and one that is redundant in today’s homogenized society. Back in 1986, the future still reeked of fag butts and cancer. The...
December 4th - 6th at Butlins in Minehead. The rumble begins somewhere around my front teeth. The rattle in my mouth is the kind of sensation I imagine I'd get if I held myself up during an...
Toshiya, bassist for Japanese alt rock phenomenon Dir en grey, isn’t interviewed very often, but we got a chance to catch up with him during their recent American tour and found him smart,...
The 00s were a decade fraught with fear. They began with the millennium bug and ended with the growing debacle in Afghanistan. Like a downbeat Hollywood franchise played out over countless movies,...
Some shapes are beautiful and some are not. It is pretty subjective, I think, save for the regular geometrical shapes. A square sucks no matter what. Clouds, on the other hand, are the best example...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
