Many bands experience growing pains when creating the Difficult Second Record. Still, that’s cold comfort when you are in the middle of it. Just ask Zayna Youssef and her bandmates in Sweet Pill. After generating significant buzz from their debut, 2022’s Where the Heart Is, playing festivals like Best Friends Forever and opening for emo
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The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), founded on Juneteenth, 2025, has announced the first National Black Bookstore Day to be celebrated on April 7. National Black Bookstore Day is intended to “recognize, elevate, and drive support to Black-owned bookstores across the United States.” NAB2 founder Kevin Johnson, who owns Underground Books in Sacramento, CA,
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Oded Ruskin’s rich manga adaptation, Drops of God, may look fancy and bizarre, but it is a rare show that meaningfully touches upon art, wine, and philosophy. If you partake, you’ll be squiffed before you know it. Adapted from Tadashi Agi’s television manga, Kami no Shizuku (2004-14), Drops of God is set across Provence, Tokyo,
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The Sandbox Kenya-Jade Pinto Together Films 11 March 2026 | One World Screened in the International Competition at One World Film Festival, The Sandbox, Kenya-Jade Pinto’s debut feature, begins with an idea strong enough to sustain an entire documentary. The title gives the film its central metaphor. In technology and gaming, a sandbox is a
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Unbalance Carlos Ferreira and Dasom Baek Beacon Sound 20 March 2026 While it sounds like it might be the work of some mysterious intergalactic orchestra, Unbalance is the work of two musicians performing with little to no advance direction. Brazilian experimental guitarist and composer Carlos Ferreira and Korean performer and composer Dasom Baek combined their
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Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner is an improviser’s improviser—other musicians speak of him with great respect, and his playing is often cited as an influence. His associations with a group of musicians from his generation, such as guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and the cooperative trio Sky (with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard), have aged very
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Lindsey Jordan’s songwriting has always pinned down feelings in sharp, immediate terms. On Ricochet, her third album as Snail Mail, she loosens that grip. Letting those emotions slip into something more diffuse and uncertain, she traces the uneasy realization that most of life only makes sense after it’s already gone. Where her earlier work often
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Love Everybody loves Joni Mitchell, and everybody has a favorite Joni Mitchell album. That album is Blue (1971). No, not really. It’sCourt and Spark (1974). Ladies of the Canyon (1970). Hejira (1976). What’s that? Is your favourite Mingus (1979)? That’s a good, left-field choice—the culmination of her jazz explorations through the 1970s. Nobody’s favorite came
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Since 1980, American guitarist Steve Tibbetts has crafted some of the world’s boldest, most varied, and original guitar music for ECM Records, across 14 releases, including his newest, Close (2025), and his not-to-be-missed, two-CD career retrospective, Hellbound Train (2022). Tibbetts boasts one of the widest palates in guitaring, with a style that fuses elements of
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That many current university students remain saturated in the infantilising world of fantasy generated by comics is a problem for contemporary pop culture pedagogy. In these early years of undergraduate studies in literature and cultural studies, the battleground of critical ideas often orbits around the universes of Marvel, DC, and Harry Potter.Moreover, students are emboldened
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Daggers Inn Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Daggers Inn – directed by James Smith and written by James Smith and Caroline Spence, and starring Charlie Bond, Terry Bamberger and Julian Clapton Synopsis: When an enigmatic woman arrives in a remote English village the locals are both intrigued and leery, with their suspicions growing after she
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What if your neighbor wasn’t just annoying, but a notorious murderer? From filmmaker Dylan R. Nix (10/31 Part 4, Sharp Candy) and Scream Team Releasing comes The Demon of Serling, a bleakly comedic thriller that explores the twisted side of enlightenment. When Reagan Rossi (Dylan R. Nix) discovers his neighbor, Mr. Yarley (David E. McMahon,
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HNN Interview: Rick Jones (Horrify Me) by Matt Boiselle Ever heard the phrase: “If I even had AN OUNCE of that guy’s talent…” – well, I’ll tell you no truer words could be spoken, especially if you’re a student of horror gore and FX, then I’ve got quite the treat for you – read on
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Women’s History Month is here, and there’s no better time to share some feminist books from women throughout modern history. Writers from bell hooks to Ruby Hamad have shared their wisdom with readers across the world and taught
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The extraordinaryPhilip Blochis carving out a powerful legacy with his fashion label,“Omniscient Things.” After presenting twice this year duringNew York Fashion Week, Bloch continues to solidify his status as a fashion icon committed to making style accessible to the masses. For his NYFW debut, he was invited to stage a flash fashion show at Terminal
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En Vogue posed for promotional images in coordinated custom looks by Atelier Savoir, styled by J Bolin. The group embraced a cohesive palette of warm browns, creams, and charcoal tones, anchored by structured leather corsetry and tailored silhouettes. One look featured wide-leg ivory trousers paired with a crisp white shirt and a sculpted caramel leather
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Kirsten King is the author of A Good Person, out March 31st from Putnam. Below, she shares three of her favorite books about feminine rage—plus a bonus TV series recommendation. Boy Parts by Eliza Clark –I always find it impressive when an author can take a morally reprehensible character and keep the reader flipping the
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