At 18 years old, Eduardo Hernández Saucedo, aka Ed Maverick, has already become a viral phenomenon for his sweet, romantic bedroom-folk tunes; his 2018 hit “Fuentes de Ortiz” has topped 100 million streams. His pleasingly deep voice easily conveys yearning in straightforward songs that he builds around simple, colloquial phrases and strummed acoustic guitar—and each […]
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The Universal Togetherness Band’s omnivorous dance-funk got released three decades late
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Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies
Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
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Why can’t grown-up animations catch a break on Oscar night?
The Oscar-nominated animated short films screen this week at Landmark’s Century Centre. Why can’t the features be as good?
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Mai tais and monsters collide in Uptown
Pete Klockau and Katie Monachos’s house is home to six-foot totems and 200 tiki mugs.
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Why mixtapes don’t hit the charts
Billboard and the RIAA are ignoring mixtapes, which just happen to be outside music-industry control.