Ralph Ellison: A Man and His Records
by: Michael Shields New York City is certainly bountiful in its cultural offerings, but every once in a while…
True Detective Season 1 Episode 8 Deconstructed
by: Michael Shields In the closing moments of True Detective, a premise we never considered imaginable manifested itself, and…
Pills
by: Douglas Grant Cornered by a world that provides answers to its problems in capsule form, we explore one…
True Detective Season 1 Episode 7 Deconstructed
True Detective’s penultimate episode aptly sets us up for what may lie ahead… by: Michael Shields “My whole life is…
Ramis
With a heavy heart, we take a moment and remember the genius of Harold Ramis…. When I first watched Stripes,…
Twenty Years Later – Beck’s Mellow Gold
by: Chris Thompson Beck’s break-out album Mellow Gold turns twenty this month. With that in mind we take a…
True Detective Season 1 Episode 6 Deconstructed
by: Michael Shields True Detective guides us through a series of “Haunted Houses” en route to its concluding third…
Guardians of the Galaxy: a primer
by: Chris Thompson It‘s not too early to revel in the buzz of what is sure to be one…
True Detective Season 1 Episode 5 Deconstructed
by: Michael Shields One case solved, another opened, and the game now dramatically changed…. The picture was starting to…
Metropolis
by: Diana Thompson Hurtling through the underground as we peer inside our soul… Caged in a gritty city We…
True Detective Season 1 Episode 4 Deconstructed
by: Michael Shields True Detective arrives at its half way point with an earsplitting bang, bestowing us with its most extraordinary episode to…
The First Line
A collection of authors share amongst themselves a first line. Where the story wanders however, is entirely up to…