For more than a decade, pop culture has witnessed an explosion of 1980s sci-fi and horror revivalism in both music and film with dark electro-pop acts such as Kavinsky and creepy period dramas such as Stranger Things garnering cult followings. Amid the nostalgia, an anonymous, instrumental, Boise-based synth-rock trio named Magic Sword has carved its […]
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Posted inArts & Culture
In The Harvest, Samuel D. Hunter suggests that even fundamentalists are human
The play defeats expectations and shakes its audience up.
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: The end times come for Heavy Times
The end times come for Heavy Times, Oyarsa goes transcontinental, and more.
Posted inBlogs
Inside the state sausage factory
Frederick Wiseman’s “State Legislature” has its local premiere Saturday at Chicago Filmmakers.
Posted inFilm
A Home of Our Own
Director Tony Bill (My Bodyguard, Five Corners, Crazy People, Untamed Hearts) brings a lot of feeling and detail to this sort-of-true-life tale written by executive producer Patrick Duncan. It’s about a single mother (Kathy Bates) with no savings who leaves Los Angeles with her six kids for rural Idaho in 1962, and much of the […]