A young singer named Melanie is sitting alone in a small tent, waiting to be led to an elevated stage and introduced to a vast audience, huddled on a huge hillside for a three-day music fest. I'm not ...

Differing from its fairly unproductive younger sibling 2005, this past year saw a tremendous influx of fine examples of film-making. While I have not had a chance to see every good movie released this ...

Cold and Kind is the full-length debut from Chicago-based septet The 1900s, who formed officially in 2004 but trace roots to friendships and high school noise bands from years before. The record rests ...

I want to tell you that in order to articulate the feeling I get after reading a great line of poetry I must start in the stomach. After all, that's where the sensation occurs, that thin knot of ...

What is the difference between a pile of rotting baby fetuses and a shiny, red Porsche with tinted windows? I don't have a shiny red Porsche with tinted windows in my garage. If you were disgusted by ...

Arthur, a resident of the Chelsea Hotel, is leaning against the counter when I ask him about the handwritten sign propped up behind the desk. To prevent any confusion please be advised that Stanley ...

Award-winning Literary Lion and Film Expert Jerome Charyn joined Host Dusty Sang on the first episode of The Golden Age of Hollywood on the social podcasting app - Callin. The subject of this first ...

Award-winning, novelist Jerome Charyn joined Host Dusty Sang on the first episode of the Stay Thirsty Magazine Show on the new social podcasting app - Callin. The focus of the show's three-question ...

The young but wonderful career of Denton TX’s Midlake should be instructive to us: fantastic albums can come out of delving into “period” rock. Bamnan and Silvercork (2004) is a lo-fi Sgt. Pepper’s – ...

Ask almost anyone to name the man most associated with film noir, and Humphrey Bogart would win hands down. A close second should be Eddie Muller. He is the modern-day Dean of Film Noir. He founded ...

Most modern nations have mythic origins. Italy was born as a result of a she-wolf's suckling of abandoned twin brothers Romulus and Remus. Christian Ireland was born as a result of St. Patrick driving ...

Nice Bombs subject matter is intrinsically political. Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi refrains from commenting specifically on American and Iraqi politics, and chooses instead to talk to the people that live ...