Entertainment

Movies, television, music, streaming, comics and the people shaping popular culture. From familiar favourites and forgotten gems to new discoveries, we explore the entertainment that keeps us watching, listening and talking.

Culture

Books, art, literature, history, ideas and creative expression. A place for interesting discoveries, thoughtful observations and the people and works that leave their mark on the world around us.

Food & Life

Restaurants, food, products, everyday experiences and the little discoveries that make life more interesting. From honest reviews and good eats to useful finds and things worth talking about, there's always something on the menu.

The Odd & Curious

The unusual, unexpected, wonderfully strange and downright fascinating. Discover curious inventions, bizarre facts, peculiar stories and surprising discoveries that make you stop, look twice and ask, "Well, isn't that something?"

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The Doors: Unbound and Dangerous

A lifelong Doors fan revisits Unbound and Dangerous and explores seven standout concert albums, explaining why the band's music keeps revealing something new.
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Bottle Grove Review

“Nothing is believably conjured to life in Bottle Grove. No spell is cast, no character takes root in the reader’s heart. Captive to Handler’s cleverness, to his allusive play and lack of rigor, the reader tries to make sense of the proceedings, to no avail.”

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Wrinkles The Clown

It started with a surveillance video uploaded on YouTube in 2014. The video’s description claims that the clown’s name is Wrinkles, that he lives in Florida, and that he is hired by children’s parents to punish kids who misbehave. After the video went viral, other mysterious videos popped up online…Wrinkles pushing a cart through a parking lot. Waving alongside a busy highway. Holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The unsettling clips launched WRINKLES THE CLOWN to internet infamy. Cryptic stickers with a phone number were plastered on telephone poles and in bathrooms across the state, promising to terrify misbehaving children. Over 1 million voicemails were left. Wrinkles the Clown follows this eerie real-life character and explores the unpredictable spread of imagination in the internet age.

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The Daytrippers: The Criterion Collection

With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.

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Bob Dylan’s “Tarantula,” as read by actor Will Patton

The music of Bob Dylan has always been poetic. Bob dabbed in actual poetry with his infamous 1971 Tarantula book of prose. Critics did not respond in kind throughout the years.

Tarantula is more of a tribute to Arthur Rimbaud’s prose style. Will Patton breathes new life into this body of work as he reads the lesser-known work of Bob Dylan.

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HONK: Rolling Stones newest greatest hits package

Mick and boys are grounded till he is medically cleared to tour. That won’t stop them from picking at your wallet with the latest in a long list of compilation packages drawn from an extensive armory of hits. The new album Honk consists of music recorded from every Rolling Stones studio album from 1971 to 2016’s Blue & Lonesome.

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Oh No Book by Alex Norris

Oh no, Andrews McMeel Publishing has collected Alex Norris’ viral Webcomic Name. Alex’s appeal is in the simplicity of the strip that has a universal appeal.

The book collects the best hits from Alex’s Tumblr account and some never published before strips. The book is a great starting point in introducing yourself to Alex Norris complex views drawn in primary line forms. There is a little something for everybody.

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Luke Flowers “Raised by Rainbows”

Here is your misspent youth in rainbow youthful colors as illustrated by Luke Flowers. This gorgeous litho of iconic characters will brighten your wall with nostalgic envy.

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What Flickr gives it takes away

Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos. You can upgrade to paid Flickr Pro service to keep more photos.