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An annual event designed to drive consumers to independent record stores, Record Store Day takes place this year on Saturday, April 20. The list of exclusive releases that you’ll be able to purchase only at brick and mortar sto...
Movie
Whether or not you believe that dark, other-worldly forces menaced a Long Island family in the 1970s, it’s clear minutes into the documentary My Amityville Horror (now on VOD) that at least one person was and is still truly hau...
Flicks
Ryan Gosling plays a festival-circuit motorcycle daredevil turned outlaw in The Place Beyond the Pines. The dramatic three-part film explores how the sins of the fathers affect the lives and relationships of their sons. Gosling...
Flicks
Director Derek Cianfrance skyrocketed to fame after his Blue Valentine became an indie hit in 2010. But he actually started writing his latest feature, The Place Beyond the Pines, well before he filmed Blue Valentine. The film,...
Flicks
An accomplished writer-director who has also authored a number of plays, Paul Weitz helms Admission, a film about Portia, a Princeton college admission officer who has to confront her past when a high school teacher (Paul Rudd)...
Flicks
Working together in a feature film for the first time, Paul Rudd and Tina Fey respectively portray Portia and John in Admission. She’s a Princeton University admissions officer and he’s a New Age teacher who wants to get one o...
Art
Now in its second year, the Short.Sweet.Film Fest offers a mix of local and international short films, including documentaries and animated shorts. This year the intimate celebration of concise creativity takes place on Februar...
Art
Lottery League is a large-scale recurring experiment that brings together diverse Cleveland musicians and forces them to form new bands on the spot with people they definitely have never played with and may never have even met ...
Trips
I’ve been to Sin City at least once a year for the last few years. Why? It’s definitely not the gambling. Sure, I’ve thrown away a few bucks in the hopes I’d win big, but I’ve never been very lucky on games of chance and when ...
Movie
We read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in French class, saw the musical stage adaptation three times and know most of the words to the non-stop sung dialogue, so we’re no strangers to the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean. Impriso...