16+ hour, 49+ min ago   (418+ words) A guy in a Ghostbusters suit milled around outside Portland’s Moda Center. Even though you could be forgiven for believing he was about to queue up to see Weezer play, the Venkman stand-in had just departed the Rose City Comic…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1211+ words) Occupying the interzone between creativity, criticism and academic writing, J. Simpson idealistically believes that great art makes the world a better place. Specializing in the "dark," experimental, surreal and strange, he believes there's more to life than chasing profits. He is…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (750+ words) Spectrum Culture The musical movement matches the album’s lyrical approach. Strings unexpectedly lost his mother last year, and not only does the new album explicitly honor her, it also contains its fair share of grief, and some of Strings’ most…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (490+ words) A historical drama that also functions as a three-hanky tear-tugger, Dear You serves up a fascinating cinematic experience. The story, written and directed by Lan Hongchun as the third part of a trilogy, hits familiar emotional beats while illuminating an…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (873+ words) Domenic is a pop culture aficionado and always has been. When not editing others’ writing, he usually can be found pursuing the dream of his 16-year-old self writing about his favorite film and musical obsessions. When not writing, he spends…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (991+ words) Spectrum Culture Take Shelter’s pervasive sense of dread hinges on a man plagued by terrifying nightmares, dreams he believes portend unspeakable doom. A storm is coming in the worst way. What leaves him bolting awake in a cold sweat, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (277+ words) For some, the solution is to retreat into Marley’s early Lee “Scratch” Perry-produced sessions, when Marley’s sound was sparse and spooky, filled with actual dread, before signing with Island and becoming an international superstar. Even the nature of The Wailers…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (269+ words) The most affecting James Bond theme of all was one Carly Simon sang: “Nobody Does It Better.” A gifted interpreter of melody, Simon inhabited the pathos of the tune, though she tellingly didn’t write it. Simon did, however, serve as…...