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Blu-ray Review: Panna Rittikrai’s ‘Vengeance of an Assassin’
Wait until you see what happens when a Jeep, a helicopter, and a train get into a fight in "Vengeance of an Assassin"
Read More »TV Review: ‘Mad Men’ – ‘The Forecast’ – Or Intergenerational Fireworks
This episode provides plenty of intergenerational fireworks as characters express their deepest convictions, hopes, and dreams, with some forging deeper bonds.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Ana Lily Amirpour’s ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ starring Sheila Vand
Featuring spectacular video/audio and way more features than most Hollywood blockbusters, 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' is not to be missed.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Scary First Haircut
A boy gets his first haircut before starting Kindergarten in September 1965.
Read More »Must-Have Items in Men’s Fashion for Summer 2015
These fashion trends are all about helping men to feel more comfortable in the heat of summer by dressing to impress regardless of the situation in which they find themselves.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Belle of Belfast’ by Nate Rufus Edelman
The Irish Rep presents a new play that's old-fashioned in the best way, a funny, sad, affecting and deep tale of forbidden passion and survival amid senseless violence.
Read More »A 1960s Lexicon of Words of Liberation and Self Defense
Over the decade of the 60s these groups developed and shared a lexicon of words that expressed their desire for liberation. The black community at-large widely used these liberation words and phrases. Recently I have been recalling those words and phrases noticing that I rarely hear them in today’s struggle.
Read More »Music Review: Ringo Starr – ‘Postcards from Paradise’
Affable and steady-rocking, Ringo Starr's latest is more of the same - for better or worse.
Read More »TV Review: ‘Community’ – “Advanced Safety Features”
'Community' explores characters' arrested development while poking fun at the Honda Fit.
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