Book Review: Shatter by Erin McCarthy

Kylie Warner prides herself on being optimistic, but after finding her best friend in bed with her boyfriend and flunking chemistry, her upbeat attitude has taken a dive. Even an impromptu hook-up with her sexy new chemistry tutor only brightens…

Jose’s Movie Review: “The Pyramid” Should Stay Buried

20th Century Fox’s The Pyramid centers around a pyramid discovered by using high tech satellite technology. You might have to use that same satellite technology to find out anything about this movie because Fox certainly isn’t promoting it. Usually a…

Read of the Week: The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel

Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the Gap. Becca Williamson breaks up couples. 

 After watching her sister get left at the altar, Becca knows the true damage that comes when people utter the dreaded L-word. For…

TV Review: Nashville (3×09) “Two Sides to Every Story”

There’s one episode left for the Nashville winter mid season finale and so this episode was mostly just a segway for that. Nonetheless, it had its strong parts! The episode centered around Luke and Rayna’s at home Christmas special and…

From the Record Crate: The Beatles – “Beatles for Sale” (1964)

On Facebook today, I saw a fellow music writer—one of my favorite music writers, in fact—say happy birthday to The Beatles’ Rubber Soul. That’s strange, because Rubber Soul’s birthday was yesterday and it was only turning 49. Beatles for Sale,…

The Film Canon: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

In 1964, a film examined the grim possibility of something going very wrong with America’s nuclear program. A group of bombers carrying nuclear weapons are accidentally given the GO-codes to drop their nuclear payload onto the Soviet Union. The President…

Music News: Saosin Announces New Shows With Anthony Green

Saosin has announced four dates this winter with their original lineup, most notably Anthony Green, the band’s frontman. There will be one show in Southern California before Saosin plays three more January dates in Texas. Fans from elsewhere in the…