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May 20, 2025Like fishermen and romantics, gamblers never forget the one that got away. For Rob Minnick, now 25, that was in 2018, during the annual “March Madness” college basketball...
May 7, 2025In 1992, the Los Angeles Times dispatched a reviewer to a live show by buzzy Stockton, California, rock outfit Pavement. Critic Jonathan Gold didn’t quite know what to do with...
April 18, 2025In 1975, David Cronenberg’s debut feature film, Shivers (aka They Came With From Within, aka The Parasite Murders), was trashed by his Canadian countrymen. Writing under a...
April 16, 2025Like all worthwhile endeavours, the (semi)annual celebration of independent record store culture called Record Store Day started with an idea. Specifically, it started with a...
January 22, 2025The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s 2022, barely coded biopic of his own artistic adolescence, ends with a young Sammy Fabelman (the Spielberg stand-in) granted an audience with...
