The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Dr. Strangelove." The screen is at first an impenetrable dark. “Real country dark” as Alex DaLarge might say....
New Visual Kei singer Kanon Wakeshima has a lot going on right now. Plucked from obscurity as the result of an impressive Sony audition tape by Visual Kei and Gothic Lolita icon Mana, she already has...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "The Killing." Released in the same year as "Goldfinger," Kubrick’s satire on nuclear Armageddon could be a Bond...
Wonder woman has nothing to do. Sat on her back porch with her underwear still on the outside and a beer in her hand, she knows: Metropolis is fine. The Riddler’s dead. All the vampires exploded...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Killer's Kiss." You get the impression that Sterling Hayden’s two-time loser Johnny Clay never read much...
In recent years, Kate Royal has been hailed as one of the emerging opera singers in the classical music world. The British lyric soprano is the winner of the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2004 John...
The waiting is the worst. The knowledge that something truly awful is coming, and there’s nothing you can do but stand by and watch. You see, my blue pen is running out of ink, and there’s...
"The Damned, Blood on the Snow" is the previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's saga. "I'm not dead," my brother says. "Though you did injure me on Vinson Massif.” He shows me a scar on his...
“In my own circle of writers and rock fans...populism had another meaning: it derived from pop.” -Ellen Willis, Introduction to Beginning to See the Light To be a leftist in America in the days...
They clink their empty plates every night, to inspire speculation from neighbours that they have food, that they eat too. ii. They save their best dress Not for church, not for a dance. They wear it...
