Chance the Rapper Releases ‘Same Drugs’ Video
Feb08

Chance the Rapper Releases ‘Same Drugs’ Video

I stumbled across Chance the Rapper’s latest video, ‘Same Drugs’. I’ve listened to last year’s exceptional “Coloring Book”, several hundred times in 2016, so I was familiar the Chicago-based artist’s song — but this accompanying video threw me into a throng of emotions.

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6 Potential Future Oscar Hosts
Feb07

6 Potential Future Oscar Hosts

It is long past time to kick the fashion police and TMZ to the curb. They add nothing to the evening. Their banter is annoying, insulting and sexist.

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The Art & Exploration of Middle Eastern Cinema
Feb06

The Art & Exploration of Middle Eastern Cinema

In America we view our freedom of the press as an everyday way of life–a privilege we often don’t recognize while throwing scorn at other countries for it. With Trump’s Muslim ban, enacted last week, we saw the first inklings of shutting out the outside world.

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3 Women & The Rip Current of Dreams
Feb04

3 Women & The Rip Current of Dreams

Much can be made of dreams. They are ephemeral pockets of panic, subletted by a motoring mind. They bounce, dive, and thrash through perforated memories and blanched realities. Things are readily amiss, and often times trounce through uncanny valleys.

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Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound
Feb04

Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound

Led by singer/songwriter Dylan Baldi’s idea that the essence of a song’s composition starts at its purest form, they’ve released three successful studio records built around not much more than insanely catchy guitar riffs and high energy anthemic choruses.

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