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Year of the Month

There is this place inside where all the good things die: Everclear, Sparkle and Fade

November 8, 2023

Everclear's breakthrough album is raw, painful, and brutally honest in a way that few albums are-- and that their own work never reached again

Attention Must Be Paid

Anne Gwynne

October 21, 2023

One of the early scream queens whose grandson may be slightly familiar.

Camera Obscura

The Bad Seed

October 17, 2023

In which a child is born evil, and where we go from there is shaped by the Production Code.

Camera Obscura

The Year of the Horse/The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

September 19, 2023

A delightful, if obscure, Disney movie based on a book that turns out to be impossible to access for no good reason.

Celebrating the Living

Scott Bakula

September 17, 2023

He may not have put right what once went wrong for me, but he certainly helped me through it.

Disney Byways

“Dad . . . Can I Borrow the Car?”

September 15, 2023

Disney delves into the wide world of drivers' safety shorts. With experimental animation and hip young voiceover work!

Taco Break

Overstaying their welcome

September 14, 2023

What's a show, movie, or other story you like that could have been great if it ended sooner?

Let There Be Light: The Complicated Labyrinth of The Tombs Of Atuan

September 12, 2023

Le Guin swerved from the expected in her second Earthsea book.

Year of the Month

I love you, but baby, do you love me? Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque

August 31, 2023

The debut album of Scotland's great power-pop trio is every bit as good now as it was in 1991

Year of the Month

The Rootless Culture of My Own Private Idaho

August 17, 2023

The New Queer Cinema takes to the road.