Feb 19, 2016
Comic Books
Issue # 56 - Best of 2015 - Father John Misty and Wolf Alice
Sara Varon’s Sweaterweather is an endearing collection of 18 of the cartoonist’s short stories, some dating back to 2003. Her characters inhabit a magical world where animals grow and shrink at will, a cat can fly just by planting pigeon wings, and rabbits are landlords.
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Feb 19, 2016
Music
Wild Nothing
Counterintuitive as it may seem, Life of Pause, Jack Tatum’s third full-length as Wild Nothing, is a work that makes quite a fuss over sounding less fussy than the records that preceded it. Perhaps sensing that he’d reached an absolute dream pop peak with 2012’s immaculately produced and composed Nocturne, Tatum has begun struggling against his perfectionist instincts, resulting in an album that’s willfully rough-hewn, scattered, and label-resistant.
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Studio: Magnolia
Directed by Tobias Lindholm
Feb 19, 2016
Cinema
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Pilou Asbæk is Claus M. Pedersen, a Danish army officer in charge of a squad desperate to find purpose in its routine—and highly dangerous—patrols.
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Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Directed by Ciro Guerra
Feb 18, 2016
Cinema
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Embrace the Serpent fully embraces a snaking, nonlinear structure to highlight the Western World’s unchanging and naïve attitude toward indigenous cultures.
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Studio: Momentum
Directed by Jon Cassar
Feb 18, 2016
Cinema
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Jon Cassar’s Forsaken is the first time Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appear together as leading men, and they do so while portraying father and son, no less.
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Feb 18, 2016
Music
Issue # 56 - Best of 2015 - Father John Misty and Wolf Alice
Ra Ra Riot emerged in 2008 after their live show established a sizable buzz. Featuring violinist Rebecca Zeller and cellist Alexandra Lawn, as well as the untouchable tenor of vocalist Wes Miles, the group laid claim to a peppy, fresh baroque-pop aesthetic that soon became the “it sound” of indie rock, thanks in part to their friends in Vampire Weekend.
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Feb 17, 2016
Music
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Tim Gane’s spirit of improvisation has truly found fertile ground in his latest release, with a fresh ensemble of talents that is Cavern of Anti-Matter. Always welcoming collaboration with counterparts of avant-garde experimentation, Gane has teamed with Holger Zapf as well as former Stereolab bandmate, drummer Joe Dilworth, along with a wealth of surprising guest appearances.
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Feb 16, 2016
Comic Books
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Author/illustrator George O’Connor’s ongoing series of Greek mythology graphic novels continues with Apollo: The Brilliant One. Since the first volume of the collection hit shelves in 2010, Olympians has proven a consistent and admirable retelling of some of the most recognizable lore in human history.
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Feb 16, 2016
Music
Choir of Young Believers
Choir of Young Believer’s third record, Grasque, began life as another project entirely. Frontman Jannis Noya Makrigiannis originally imagined the album as a new side-project, but changed his mind somewhere along the way. He kept the new project’s band name, Grasque, and took Choir back to its roots as a mainly solo effort.
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