Dark in Here The Mountain Goats (Merge Records, 2021) The sweeping new release by alternative band the Mountain Goats is infectiously upbeat despite its title...
Arts & Culture
Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish (Interscope, 2021) “I’m getting older, I think I’m aging well” slinks the 19-year-old Billie Eilish as she opens her sophomore...
Sweet Tooth Developed by Jim Mickle (Nightshade, 2021) Kids in cages. A global pandemic that kills millions. Exhausted doctors and caretakers. Fearful people...
Somos. Created by James Schamus (Netflix, 2021) The title sequence of Netflix’s Somos. is a patchwork of black-and-white images of dozens of faces. Without any...
When searching the shelves for Bibles and gospel storybooks to share with children, we encounter shelves full of hundreds of brilliantly colored books with...
This Sunday, Kanye West released a new album, Donda, named after his late mother, Donda West. It’s been teased for weeks through massive livestreamed and in...
Best Summer Ever (available on Hoopla and to buy or rent on streaming platforms) is a predictable summer film about adolescent yearning and intrigue, an homage...
The Diary of Jesus Christ By Bill Cain, S.J. (Orbis Books, 2021) Rather than seeing the imagination as something childish or illusory, St. Ignatius of Loyola...
“True Facts,” little bitty animal movies, are treasures of bug and bird and bat lore. They are laugh-out-loud delightful, thanks to Ze Frank, their witty...
Jubilee Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans, 2021) “Hell is finding someone to love / And I can’t have you,” Michelle Zauner, lead singer and songwriter of indie...
