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Noah's Beat Box
The late film director David Lynch takes a huge bite of a glazed donut.

Ok, Let’s Try That Again, but This Time Good!

By Noah Springer • March 14th, 2025

If there is someone who I strongly admired and I think stood for something good in the world of the creative industries, it would have to be David Lynch.

Casting Deep Meteo
Detail from Lophae's Perfect Strangers album zooms in on an abstract block printing rendered in colorful inks.

Lophae and the Creative Impulse

By Levi Rubeck • March 13th, 2025

Perfect Strangers is just what I need in my jazz and my life: breezy lazer plucks, thumpin and skronks, wrists kept busy and warm behind the kit.

Totally Generic
A still from Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows the titular heroine clutching a wooden stake with a determined look on her face.

Buffy Reboot

By Natasha Ochshorn • March 12th, 2025

Stage and film actors have been “remaking” Shakespeare for over 400 years and no one has a problem with it if the production is good. I’m kidding, people have a problem with everything.

Area of Effect
A photograph of a lush landscape in Argentina features a stunningly massive waterfall emptying into a large lagoon flanked by green trees.

Worldbuilding

By Jay Castello • March 11th, 2025

I’m building worlds in my brain and I’m being in worlds in real life.

Rookie of the Year
A top-down photo of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after it was taken down in January 2025. Photo by Erin Stevenson O'Connor.

The Darkening

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2025

Or, the night the lights of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree are turned off for good.

Don't Stop Believing
Several people prostrate themselves in front of a dark lone central figure in a screenshot from El Paso, Elsewhere.

El Paso, Elsewhere Reminds Us Shame Is Not Godly

By Elijah Beahm • March 6th, 2025

Your heart and intentions do matter, as well as your response.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Crow Country shows a woman standing in the center of a very dark and funky bathroom, the line of urinals along one wall looking scarier than any ghost.

In Defense of Tank Controls

By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2025

We don’t need to throw the super cool atmospheric and mechanically interesting baby out with the bathwater of outdated hardware limitations.

Mind Palaces
A cropped photo of the author's bookshelves, spines neatly aligned.

Shelf Life

By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2025

I think if I died tomorrow, you’d get a good idea of who I was by looking at my books.

Past Presence
Art from Misericorde Volume 2: White Wool and Snow shows a figure breaking through the starry firmament, rendered in a woodcut style.

Misericorde: White Wool and Snow Review

By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2025

Everyone is lying, and that’s before we even consider the mystery.

Noise Complaint
A pen-and-ink drawing of a small figure riding a bicycle through fog or rain, the ominous clouds in the sky looking like grasping hands.

Finding a Through Line with Touche Amore

By Ben Sailer • February 27th, 2025

Ben reflects on the career of hardcore band Touche Amore and reconnects with a sound he thought he’d outgrown.

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