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Lana Del Ray
- Event Reviews
- March 1, 2018
Lana Del Ray gave the capacity crowd in DC all they came for and more on a frigid night. Rick Harris was there to witness.
Soul Understated
- Event Reviews
- May 22, 2017
Soul Understated was a swizzle stick of jazz, funk, pop with a dash of Radiohead in the delightful DC cocktail.
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC
- Screen Reviews
- March 30, 2015
The rise of punk in our nation’s capital gets chronicled in Salad Days.
Led Zeppelin Played Here
- Screen Reviews
- April 6, 2014
Was Led Zeppelin’s 1969 show at the Wheaton Youth Center in rural Maryland an urban legend, or just the smallest and worst prompted show of their career? Carl F Gauze discovers the truth is not that easy.
The Quality Companion
- Print Reviews
- July 12, 2012
The Quality Companion stockpiles an embarrassment of riches for the serious comics fan.
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
- Screen Reviews
- September 30, 2011
Finally, a DVD release of the seminal Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC concert film Let There Be Rock.
Collected Jack Kirby Collector Vol. 7
- Print Reviews
- January 21, 2010
The four issues collected in Twomorrows latest Jack Kirby Collector are packed with interviews, pseudo-scholarly/analytical pieces, and metric tons of artwork from comics’ favorite “working-class kid from the Bronx.”

The Comic Book Podcast Companion
- Print Reviews
- October 9, 2009
An online review of a book of people talking about people talking about comics online. Carl F Gauze slams into a postmodern wall.
Grail Pages
- Print Reviews
- September 10, 2009
The inside skinny on collectors of original comic book art and Carl F Gauze‘s take on the guys who dig pictures of men who wear their underwear outside their pants.
The Flash Companion
- Print Reviews
- March 12, 2009
If Gorilla Grodd, Captain Cold, the Pied Piper, and Captain Boomerang live on your bookshelf, you’ll be wanting this in-depth history of The Flash, from historians and the people who created him.
Rough Stuff
- Print Reviews
- October 22, 2008
Bruce Phillips gets his fingertips all inky poring over the latest Rough Stuff.
The Best of Write Now!
- Print Reviews
- August 26, 2008
Hey kid! Wanna write comics? Carl F Gauze suggests you read Danny Fingeroth‘s collection of interviews and articles from Write Now!, a magazine for Super Hero cartoonists, first.
Blue Beetle Companion
- Print Reviews
- June 5, 2007
Who was the Blue Beetle? Matthew Moyer finds that the back story for this overlooked superhero contains more mystery and intrigue than Charles Foster Kane’s. Rosebud? Scarab?
Modern Masters Volume 10: Kevin Maguire
- Print Reviews
- April 30, 2007
The talent of comics artist Kevin Maguire is nothing to bwa-ha-ha about. Shaun Corley gives us the rundown on the latest edition of the Modern Masters series, which runs down Maguire’s career.

All Star Companion Volume 2
- Print Reviews
- March 22, 2007
Somewhere between comic fandom and pop culture research lives this exhaustive (but not exhausting) look at the first superhero club, the Justice Society of America. Matthew Moyer ponders the membership.
The Alter Ego Collection, Volume One
- Print Reviews
- October 19, 2006
It’s just a comic, right? Wrong. Matthew Moyer examines this anthology from the celebrated fanzine Alter Ego, full of comics passion, knowledge and treasures.
Modern Masters Volume Eight: Walter Simonson
- Print Reviews
- September 19, 2006
It’s easy to appreciate a comic artist’s craft. But what goes on behind the scenes? How does a Great One get to be… well, Great? Matthew Moyer gets the scoop on Walter Simonson in the latest installment of TwoMorrow’s Modern Masters series.
Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day At A Time
- Print Reviews
- October 2, 2003
Artist and editor Dick Giordano headed DC Comics’ editorial department through the ’80s. By a strange coincidence, that happens to have been the decade of Ben Varkentine’s "golden age" as a fan, so he’s here to get filled in on all the details.
Erik Truffaz
- Event Reviews
- August 20, 2002
Erik Truffaz at La Maison Francaise in Washington, DC on April 29, 2002. Concert review by Bill Campbell.
Herbie Hancock
- Event Reviews
- April 16, 2002
Herbie Hancock at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on March 28, 2002. Concert review by Bill Campbell.

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- Music Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Print Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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Best of Film 2019
- Screen Reviews
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- Screen Reviews
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The horror-comedy classic gets new life in this Blu-ray reissue.
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- Archikulture Digest
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- Archikulture Digest
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- Interviews
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