Every December, as consumerism reaches its peak, audiences are presented with some reimagined variation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, A Christmas Carol...
Arts & Culture
As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again The Decemberists (YABB, 2024) With their latest album, the aptly named As It Ever Was, So Will It Be Again, the...
The United States does not feel like a great place to be a woman right now. I’m not proud of a nation in which 75 million Americans voted for a convicted felon...
The following article contains some spoilers for “Conclave” Cardinal Thomas Lawrence stands before the assembled cardinal electors and delivers a stark warning...
Bad Monkey Developed by Bill Lawrence (Apple TV+, 2024) Bad Monkey is an incredibly novelistic TV show. This is unsurprising, given that it is an adaptation of...
Long Way Home Ray LaMontagne (Liula Records, 2024) Twenty years after the release of his first studio album (2004’s Trouble), Ray LaMontagne is comfortable in...
Five Dice, All Threes Bright Eyes (ARC, 2024) On Five Dice, All Threes, Bright Eyes serves up one of their most conceptually coherent albums in years. With 10...
The Apprentice Directed by Ali Abbasi (Briarcliff, 2024) For all the obvious effort that went into making it, The Apprentice doesn’t seem to be a film that...
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman (ANTI-, 2024) Sometimes it’s hard to decide whether we should yell at or empathize with the masculine lonely jerks in our lives...
