December 2018 Reviews

These are the reviews 
and other pieces I'm 
working on this month.

The Stranger Film Opening: None.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Redd Kross, Dale Crover, and John Grant.

Video Librarian: Benevolence: A Journey from Prison to Home, The Breast Archives, Drawn Together: Comics, Diversity and Stereotypes, Jamilia, Love and Sex in India, Nimble Fingers, Nowhere to Hide, Qi Gong - Mindfulness 
in Motion, Return to Cuba, and Woman and the Glacier.

Image from the Redd Kross website.

November 2018 Reviews

Photograph: Dean Chalkley for the Observer

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month.





The Stranger Music Things to Do: Cat Power and Neko Case, Destroyer.

Video Librarian: Imagine & Gimme Some Truth - The Making 
of the Imagine Album [Blu-ray], The Richmond Rosies, Yours in Sisterhood, Getting Grace, Evanescence - Synthesis Live [Blu-ray+CD], and Steven Wilson - Home Invasion: In Concert 
at the Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray+two-CD set].

Endnote: Image from The Guardian (Interview: Cat Power: 'I didn't know I loved myself when I was younger' by Sophie Heawood).

October 2018 Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

The Stranger Film Opening: None.   

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Oh Sees, 4AD Welcomes Tune-Yards + U.S. Girls, Ty Segall & White Fence,
Lavender Flu, and Exploded View, Darto, Advertisement.

Video Librarian: Serenade for Haiti, Tania Libre, 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel, The Foreigner’s Home - Toni Morrison at the Louvre, In the Heat of the Moment, Livingston Taylor - Life Is Good, and Restoring Tomorrow.



Endnote: Joy cover image from Drag City.  

September 2018 Reviews

These are the reviews 
and other pieces I'm 
working on this month.


The Stranger Film Openings: Bad Reputation Shows No One Is Better at Being Joan Jett Than Joan Jet and Love, Gilda, an Affectionate Portrait of a Great Comedian.



The Stranger Music Things to Do: Florence + The Machine, St. Vincent, Lizzo, Angel Olsen, Hand Habits, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick.

Video Librarian: Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to be Free, Full Circle - The Birth, Death & Re-Birth of Circle of Dust, Grace Jones - Bloodlight and Bami [Blu-ray], We’re Still Here - Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited, Breaking Silence, The Jazz Ambassadors,
Little Stones, Shadow Nation, and Whipping Zombie.

Joan Jett poster image from Magnolia Pictures.  

August 2018 Reviews

These are the reviews and other 
pieces I'm working on this month.


The Stranger Film Openings: That Summer, a Doc For Those Who Can't Get Enough of Grey Gardens and Half the Picture, a Documentary About How Hollywood Still Sucks for Women, Regina Hall Shines in Support the Girls.


The Stranger Music Things to Do: Amen Dunes, Okay Kaya, Hop Along, Thin Lips, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Soccer Mommy, and Six Organs of Admittance, Wino, Xasthur.

Video Librarian: 2e2 - Teaching the Twice Exceptional, Love
After Love, Sidemen - Long Road to Glory [Blu-ray], Larger Than
Life - The Kevyn Aucoin Story, Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart, 
The Us Festival 1982: The US Generation, Badass Beauty 
Queen, and Neil Gaiman - Dream Dangerously.



That Summer poster design from IFC Films.

July 2018 Reviews

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and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month.






The Stranger Film Openings: Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story Is a Doc About a Makeup Designer Who Rose From Porn Shots to Top Models, and Black Man Who Can Talk Like a White Man Rises to the Top in the Miraculous Sorry to Bother You.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Wye Oak, Harry Styles and Kacey Musgraves, Sheryl Crow, and the Roots.

Video Librarian: Borderline, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on 
the 405, Linefork, Love the Sinner, Mankiller - Activist, 
Feminist, Cherokee Chief, Many Loves One Heart,
Nothing Is Forgiven, Pride Denied - Homona-
tionalism & the Future of Queer Politics,
Tipping Point, and What Doesn't Kill 
Me - Domestic Violence and 
the Battle for Custody.



Photograph by Peter Prato / Annapurna Pictures.

June 2018 Reviews

Liz Phair circa Exile to Guyville

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.





Seattle Film Blog: SIFF 2018: Texas Songwriters, California Filmmakers, and Single Fathers of Every Kind and updated, cleaned-up versions of La Chinoise and Suburbia.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Yo La Tengo, Liz Phair - Girly Sound to Guyville Tour, Janelle Monáe, St. Beauty, Joan Shelley, Marisa Anderson, serpentwithfeet, Katie Gately, Brownout.

Video Librarian: Big Sonia, Forever, Chinatown, Geek Girls,
Hippie Family Values, Straight/Curve - Redefining Body 
Image, Stumped, and The Wrong Light.



Image from Matador Records (photo by Robert Manella).