Machina ex Deus by Andrew Collins We live in a time when technology is advancing at a frightening rate – self driving cars, algorithms that write news stories, big data growing at exponential rates. And yet alongside such technological progress, racial tensions still linger to an ugly, frightening degree – as we’ve seen in Ferguson, the […]
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Thawing to the Music by Andrew Collins Spring, like any season, ought to have a great soundtrack, and we think New York indie pop outfit Panama Wedding brings just the right crisp, feel-good vibes to brush off the winter doldrums and set the tone for a fresh palate of springtime adventures. The band has only […]
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Soul of an Artist by Kathryn Dean Above the fireplace hangs a black and white photo of four kids standing among the wildflowers. Wispy hair, innocent faces, and angelic eyes – unassuming but beautiful. The echoes of a howling winter still hang in the air, but here I find the promise of Spring and flowers […]
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Podcasting hit RedFence’s radar about 15 minutes after it came into existence. Since then, the art of the digitally downloadable audio show has exploded in prevalence, quality and cultural penetration. Minds have been tickled. Funny bones have been blown. Fortunes have been . . . Well, some people are making a living. A few have […]
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For My Wife by Jack H. Simons As you go your way, And I go mine. Me to death, and you to life. I wish to tell you my heart. Though sentenced to die Before I was born, I remain a contented man, Who, while this short candle burns, Will seek you again, […]
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Rage Against the Dying by Andrew Collins “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled,” writes Carl Sagan in his book The Pale Blue Dot. “Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: ‘I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love […]
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Avatar, With Fewer Blue Aliens by Stephen Simons As I suffer through ten minutes of Pokemon cartoons or watch re-runs of G.I. Joe, Thundercats, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a simple truth emerges: Children are easily entertained. And yet, these easily distracted minds can still be captured by the right show, knowing what time it […]
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Man, Scientist, Enigma by Andrew Collins Whenever the silver screen needs a brilliant, troubled, eccentric protagonist, Benedict Cumberbatch will be there to play the part — consider the hit BBC TV series Sherlock, last year’s The Fifth Estate, and now The Imitation Game. In this case he portrays Alan Turing, the World War II-era British mathematician tasked with […]
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“Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” –Mark Twain, S-t-e-a-m-boat a-comin’! The Pirates of My Youth by Jack Simons As a child, I developed a passion for jewels and gold – strange, seeing I possessed none, and neither did my parents. In […]
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Hitchcock Would be Proud by Andrew Collins Locke is the story of one man’s hour-long drive through hell. From the first frame to the last, the camera shows us only Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) in his car as he drives to London, trying to uncross the stars suddenly aligned against him. As a construction contractor, Locke has the […]
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