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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Studio: Lionsgate
Directed by Shintaro Shimosawa
Feb 16, 2016
Cinema
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Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins and Josh Duhamel star in this convoluted legal thriller.
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Feb 16, 2016
DVDs
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Pasquale Festa Campanile’s Hitch-Hike is a dirty, dirty film.
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Feb 15, 2016
TV
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There are two kinds of Stephen King mini-series: It and all the other ones.
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Published by Seven Stories Press
Feb 15, 2016
Books
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Ted Rall doesn’t give Bernie Sanders a free pass by any stretch throughout his semi-titular Bernie Sanders bio Bernie, but nonetheless comes away impressed with his honesty, humor, and the fact that he legitimately cares about the plight of the proletariat throughout this excellent book.
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Feb 15, 2016
Music
Marlon Williams
Marlon Williams’ self-titled album is an impressive debut by the New Zealand native. The lead-in track, “Hello Miss Lonesome” rockets from zero to 60 instantaneously, bursting forth from the speakers with a rollicking bluegrass frenzy that conjures The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Mumford & Sons’ first two albums.
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Feb 12, 2016
Live
EZTV
Braving a frigid, face-numbing Chicago winter, a faithful pack huddled into Schubas Tavern for a night of exemplary guitar pop classicism courtesy of EZTV, Martin Courtney (best known as Real Estate’s frontman), and likeminded collaborators.
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Feb 12, 2016
Comic Books
Issue # 56 - Best of 2015 - Father John Misty and Wolf Alice
The Wimmen’s Comix Collective came together in the early 1970s when the best-known underground comics were by male artists. Initially called It Ain’t Me Babe Comix, Wimmen’s Comix was one of the first produced by all females, and Complete gives a clear view of their sense of creative freedom.
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Feb 12, 2016
TV
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Vinyl drops us into the pre-Internet music business of 1973, a period where a hundred-dollar handshake might open doors to airplay, well before anything as civilized as market research was considered.
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Feb 12, 2016
Books
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In NFL Confidential, an anonymous lineman presents his humorous behind-the-scenes look at the National Football League.
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