Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi’s (1921-2007) debut, People of the City was shepherded into the literary spotlight by novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). Achebe chose Ekwensi’s novel as the pioneering selection for the Heinemann African Writers Series, securing the text’s position as… Read More
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I first started reading graphic literature – in a medium that is so heavily iconographic, surely… Read More
Last year, the unique, brilliant hip-hop trio Clipping released their third full-length album, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, notable in that it showed them embracing the horrorcore genre. Since horrorcore is something of a love letter to the horror/slasher… Read More
In the sprawling rainforest of electronica that opens up the album, Aalok Bala (short for Balachandran) finds something definitively human: connection. The LA-based Chilean artist takes on many roles throughout her second EP — the congregant chanting from their pew,… Read More
Magick Mountain are the kind of band that sounds like they would be a lot more fun to play in than to listen to. The three members of the group, Lins Wilson, Tom Hudson, and Nestor Matthews, have all spent… Read More
We may safely declare that people who care about American made-for-TV movies consider the Golden Age to be the 1970s. As the networks discovered the attraction of this form, viewers could see several new titles a week without leaving their… Read More
10. Piranha 3D [2010] While he also scored big with the update of Wes Craven’s cannibals in the desert effort The Hills Have Eyes, French fright master Alexandre Aja made a true terror statement with the superbly schlocky Spring Break… Read More
Bharat Nalluri’s film, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, covers a glamorous 24-hours in London on the precipice of WWII. Although the film is deemed a romantic comedy the label doesn’t quite fit. The romance genre suggests something sappy and… Read More
“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips (1990) The last remnant of ’80s pop music, “Hold On” not only topped the charts in 1990, but it was also the highest charting single of 1990. Despite the fact that their album, Wilson Phillips,… Read More
“[There have been] few other cases in the history of civilized peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar indifference.” – W.E.B. Du Bois Sometimes the books delivering the most chilling message can be the most hopeful. These… Read More