Inspiration. It’s that bolt of blue that hits every living creature, from when we’re learning to crawl until we are leaning towards the grave. What or who inspires us is varied, which is fantastic! After all, what’s more visually striking—a ...

“In a day we’ll know, oh we’ll know, yes we’ll know‘Bout a heart that’s strong and a mind that is wrongTake my hand and see all the things you can be.”“Brighter Day” 1976 was a fascinating year in America. It ...

Coming out of certain mouths, the word tourist can seem dirty. Downright nasty, if the speaker has enough of a chip on their hunched in, tense shoulders. But everyone is a tourist at some point in their lives. Travelling abroad ...

Great performative art is one that is often built like the most nourishing and simultaneously decadent layer cake. This is exactly the image and sentiment I felt when I first heard about Jeffrey Combs, an actor near and dear to ...

If you pay any attention to both history and current events, it’s incredibly easy to start feeling like Sisyphus. Those with short attention spans and bad education tend to react to so much with newborn minds and adult eyes. But ...

When it comes to cinematic ballyhoo, there are few scents sweeter than the carny cry of the sexploitation subgenre. It is the dancing girls, the carnival barker, the strong man, the freak show and the fortune teller hooking on the ...

A great actor is a shape-shifting chameleon. Speed with heart, agility with soul, and emotions from the richest of minds. But there is a class even above those captains and queens. There are those who go beyond mere transformation and ...

Cabaret Voltaire Don’t Argue Girl with Gun The art of storytelling is one that is not necessarily defined by harsh, dyed-in-the-wool lines but by watercolor smears, oil-black-swoops, wet-inky-lines, blood, sweat, and most definitely tears. (When This Mortal Coil titled one ...

So let me hear you out, you want to be a writer? Cool, we could possibly be tribe! I’m talking howling at the moon, libations, and an intrinsic understanding. Soon, the reveries will begin! But before we become full on ...

Everyone is looking for those hints, tips, and tricks to help better their lives. Self-help gurus attempt to light the way by giving you condescension wrapped in a smiley-toothy blanket. Religious and political leaders often have the morals of whorish ...