Similar to Stephen Malkmus’s old band, Pavement, there is a Replacements-like quality to the Jicks’ live sets. They can be the best band in the world on one night, and they can be the worst …
April 4, 2014
Wiggin' out at Casbah...
You do realize that you’re Alan Arkin?
Butterfly wings had been whacking away at my stomach wall for days before the scheduled interview.
September 24, 2014
David Gordon Green on his not-so-ordinary Joe
Director David Gordon Green is currently out promoting Joe, a rich, atmospheric comedy noir starring Nicolas Cage as a backwoods professional tree-poisoner and Tye Sheridan as the teenage boy in need of protection from a …
April 10, 2014
San Diego Film Critics Society holds quasi-annual awards luncheon
The San Diego Film Critics Society held its quasi-annual awards luncheon yesterday at the Blind Lady Ale House on Adams Avenue. Why do they call it the Blind Lady? Because only Helen Keller would put …
May 8, 2014
Mac DeMarco's Salad Days
The third release from Mac DeMarco, a Brooklyn-via-Montreal singer/songwriter, depicts a man at a crossroads, surrounded with watershed moments and letters from home. The road previous was a laidback guitar-driven daydream, silly yet stunning, how …
May 30, 2014