I like to cry at movies. But it’s been a long, long time since Pan’s Labyrinth and, before that, Enemies: a Love Story had me weeping up a storm. Cynical tear-jerkers have always been around; yet there have always been gifted writer-directors like Douglas Sirk, […]
Earlier this week, I spent 2 hours and 5 minutes on the side of a busy road in rural England, in driving cold rain, with my thumb up in the air and a sign saying the name of a place I wanted to go to, […]
“1963, suburban Cincinnati. That’s how my mother feels about holy matrimony,” Carole explained, when asked why she couldn’t tell her mother about her swinger lifestyle. It’s impressive that 11 years could change society’s mindset that quickly, but such was the cultural jump from 1963 to […]
During my trip to Cincinnati I visited a small specialty grocery store, and wandered over to their refrigerated section, looking for nothing in particular. But something shouted at my eyeballs from behind the frosted glass door… a lonely little dark beer bottle, wrapped with a […]
So it’s all finally over. Scotland voted ‘No’ to independence. Well, 55 percent of Scotland voted no, which is going to leave the other 45 feeling pretty disenfranchised for a while. Then again, either result in such a close race as this would have been […]
I hate your underwear. Maybe not yours, and no, not yours either, but that guy in the back there… you know who you are and you know the secret you’re hiding under those jeans. Allow me to introduce the brief-style jock – the boxer short’s […]
The iPhone 6 has, as it was prophesied, stomped into the market, putting the Android Galaxy on trial and making Apple users everywhere question their perfectly functional iPhone 5s (“But! But! But! The screen’s bigger!” *froths at mouth*). That, and there’s the Apple Watch, a […]
Providence-based instrumental rock outfit A Troop of Echoes has a brand new experimental rock album, and this epic piece of work is truly something to be admired. Recorded in a studio fashioned from their loft in Rhode Island, the four-piece group has laid down some […]
Talking about sex – whether educational or deliberately provocative – seems to automatically put people in that uncomfortable space where squirming and checking their nails seem the norm. If we’re not engaged in the actual act of having sex, then there doesn’t seem to be […]
Perhaps even more interesting than Apple’s new iPhone 6, 6+ and iWatch announcements on Tuesday September 9, 2014, is something that promises to be a little more revolutionary in practice than yet more gadgets: their new notion of a mobile wallet. Apple Pay is a […]
It was a sad day if you love your iPod! While Apple held a giant PR party for folks all around the world at Cupertino’s Flint Center to introduce its sexy new iPhone 6, iPhone 6+, the Apple iWatch and Apple Plus on an otherwise […]
The Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display, is said to be the first truly immersive headset for video games. Armed with a significantly wide field of view, high resolution display, and ultra-low latency head tracking, the Rift came with the intention of changing the […]
U2’s new album is actually pretty good, and that takes a lot for me to admit. With the almost too-science-fiction-dystopian-for-its-own-good release* on every Apple/iTunes device ever–Tim Cook’s sure proud of himself–garnering many an unhappy consumer and critic, you’d hope the end product is hopelessly bad. […]
What’s this I hear about you shopping in your local army/navy store for a helmet? Are you getting wee skid marks in your tighty-whities about the possibilities of a drone invasion? Hundreds of drones bearing decals for Iran and ISIS carrying dirty plutonium bombs over […]
This week, technology fans who made the trip to Cupertino, California to see the unveiling of the iPhone VI and the latest smart phone were blindsided by an unexpected U2 performance and the ipso facto album launch of their latest offering, Songs of Innocence. After […]
When it comes to establishing the differences between men and women, the clichés are endless. At one point or another, we all question features of the opposite sex that we just can’t seem to understand or relate to. And because generalizing can be fun, it’s […]
The question seems to be: Who will eat the world first? Amazon, Google and Apple seem to be way past the obese man at the all-you-can-eat buffet metaphor. Jokes aside, not only are they buying up the best and brightest small companies they can find […]
Well this looks like it could be a useful if rather unusual way of waking yourself up in the morning. We’re all used to the alarm clock on the phone – in fact I’m sure almost everyone reading this article right now uses their alarm […]
“We all have closets we have to come out of,” says Christopher Ryan, the co-author of Sex at Dawn – and I agree with him. I never had to come out of closet as gay, because I’m not. Oh, but wait! I can openly say […]
One of the most popular character arches now in television and film is the bromance, an epic friendship between bros that often spans more screentime than any conventional romance story. The bromance, not a new thing by any means but gathering more and more popularity […]
