Jul 16, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet Moonfall by Roland Emmerich (2022) Sometimes you just want to watch a movie that’s — to quote Nick Nunziata from his review of Transpo…
Jul 16, 2024 Music “Only Hinting” by Clinic Stars The Detroit-based dream pop duo tease their strongest work to date.
Jul 16, 2024 Music Nerdery What are CD longboxes, and what happened to them? It’s time for a little slice of CD nostalgia.
Jul 15, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet Angel City: Town Without Pity by Janet Harvey, Megan Levens, and Nick Filardi (2017) When a young starlet is discovered dead and dismembered, it’s up to a crime photographer and a mob …
Jul 14, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (2019) I checked this out from the library because I enjoy Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot novellas, which …
Jul 14, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet In Our Stars (The Doomed Earth, Book One) by Jack Campbell (2024) A soldier is hurtled back in time 40 years by Earth’s destruction. There, she meets a disgraced off…
Jul 13, 2024 Opus News New Subscriber Playlist: “Favorites of 2024 (So far…)” This month’s subscriber-only playlist and podcast episode highlights my favorite songs from 2024 (so far).
Jul 12, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader (1980) In keeping with my renewed interest in ninja-themed material… Oh, who am I kidding, my interest in …
Jul 12, 2024 Miscellany Ian Archie Beck’s Luminous Suburban Paintings The London-based painter’s works reveal and capture the beauty of the ordinary and mundane.
Jul 11, 2024 Best of Opus Web Development Seven WordPress Alternatives That Make It Really Easy to Start Blogging WordPress is far from the only option when it comes to blogging, and may no longer be the best one for many writers and publishers.
Jul 7, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet Assassin Eighteen by John Brownlow (2024) I was all set to give Assassin Eighteen two-and-a-half stars. This thriller about the world’s most …
Jul 7, 2024 Web Development Getting Speculation Rules, Prerendering, and Website Analytics to Play Nicely Together With a few lines of JavaScript, you can improve your website’s performance and still gather useful analytics data.
Jul 5, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Equalizer 3 by Antoine Fuqua (2023) The third and (presumably) final Equalizer movie actually feels like two movies in one. The first f…
Jul 5, 2024 Movies Exploring the ’80s Ninja Craze Rob Hill has done yeoman’s work making sense of the strange world of ’80s ninja cinema.
Jul 4, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2000) 24 years after its original release, the Coen Brothers’ take on Homer’s Odyssey — which they transp…
Jul 4, 2024 Music Velvet Blue Music Enters the World of Zines with Small Sounds Press It really is a treat to hold an actual zine in your hands and flip through its pages like it’s 1993 all over again.
Jul 3, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet Fist of Legend by Gordon Chan (1994) One of the greatest martial arts films of all time, and arguably Jet Li’s finest film to boot. When…
Jul 3, 2024 Music “Hold In My Hands” by Zelienople The ambient trio’s lush new single is especially atmospheric, even by their standards.
Jul 3, 2024 Music “Equinox” by Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus A five-song preview EP of the band’s new album is all that’s available on digital platforms (for now).
Jul 3, 2024 Personal My Cultural Diet (June 2024): Inside Out 2, Wham!, Hair Metal, Hundreds of Beavers, Star Trek: Discovery A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.