history Archives • Ink 19

Becoming Doctor Ruth
- Archikulture Digest
- January 13, 2020
A one woman show relating the fascinating history of Dr Ruth Westheimer, America’s favorite sex advisor.
Ragtime
- Archikulture Digest
- August 26, 2019
Blacks fight for equality as immigrants fight for survival and whites fight to reach the North pole.
Khrustalyov, My Car!
- Screen Reviews
- August 23, 2019
A dramatization of the 1953 Soviet Union’s “Doctors’ Plot.”
Breakthrough Retrospective – Years 1-5
- Archikulture Digest
- July 2, 2019
Well, they made it this far. Let’s see what they’ve accomplished.
This One’s for The Girls
- Archikulture Digest
- June 12, 2019
She is woman, and I heard her roar.
Radium Girls
- Screen Reviews
- May 30, 2019
Turn of the century watch dial painters intentionally consume radium, leading to death and profits for the American Radium Company.
Eddie Izzard
- Event Reviews
- May 27, 2019
The cross-dressing comic returned to Memphis with history, philosophy, and plenty of laughs.

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Archikulture Digest
- February 18, 2019
Moisés Kaufman takes us into the hellish world of Oscar Wild’s foolish libel trial that sent him to jail for two years
Afflicted: Daughters of Salem
- Archikulture Digest
- October 7, 2018
A close-up view of the young women who prompted the Salem Witch trials.
The Complete History of America (Abridged)
- Archikulture Digest
- July 4, 2018
More American History than you can shake a stick at, assuming you stopped laughing long enough to find a stick at.
Ludwig
- Screen Reviews
- June 15, 2017
They said he was mad, they said he was incapable of running a country, they say he was obsessed with irrelevant details, but Ludwig the Second died young and left a good looking corpse.
Chaplin’s War Trilogy
- Print Reviews
- July 4, 2016
This thoughtful and well-documented text explores the history of dark comedy in film through the perspective of Charlie Chaplin’s work and his movies about war.
Renoir
- Screen Reviews
- April 18, 2013
A view into the last few year of French Impressionist Auguste Renoir’s life. Carl F Gauze is beguiled by its stillness.
American Hardcore
- Print Reviews
- February 23, 2011
The net result of plowing through a weighty tome like this is a sense of awe at how a bunch of kids created their own culture whole cloth, like the music industry on a Utopian, communal, microcosmic level.

All Star Companion Volume Four
- Print Reviews
- January 6, 2010
Matthew Moyer recommends Twomorrows’ last volume in the All Star Companion series to pop culture scholars of all stripes. It’s an essential element to any Golden Age history, when so many originals are still out of the reach of the casual fan.
Our Noise
- Print Reviews
- January 5, 2010
Scott Adams finds this compelling history of Merge Records, the underdog label that beat the odds and succeeded, to be insanely readable.
By The Time We Got To Woodstock
- Print Reviews
- November 6, 2009
Veteran Rock and Roll Journalist Bruce Pollack rehashes all the significant songs and stories that led to the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Carl F Gauze is not impressed.
The Titans Companion Volume 2
- Print Reviews
- August 19, 2009
This book serves both as another great addition to your library of comics reference material and a useful mental health tool, sez Bruce Phillips! Read on…
Man On Wire
- Screen Reviews
- September 23, 2008
Carl F Gauze catches a fleeting glimpse of Philippe Petit, the man who strung a wire between the towers of the World Trade Center and walked across it one morning.
Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing
- Print Reviews
- September 16, 2008
Do you know the difference between stovepipe and cigarette pants? Andrew Coulon does, and he’s lording it over the ladies in his life. Don’t get burned — check out Erika Stalder‘s Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing for yourself.

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Harry Styles
- Music Reviews
- January 22, 2020
Fine Line (Columbia Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Men on Boats
- Archikulture Digest
- January 21, 2020
John Wesley Powell lost an arm in the war, but still runs the Colorado river from Wyoming to Nevada with an all-female cast.
Silje Torsøe
- Music Reviews
- January 21, 2020
Closer. Review by Stacey Zering.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Archikulture Digest
- January 20, 2020
Chekov’s tale of family disintegration reappears in the late 20th century.
Grande Royale
- Music Reviews
- January 20, 2020
Take It Easy (Sign Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
A Lion in Winter
- Archikulture Digest
- January 19, 2020
Henry the Second nears the end of his life, and he sets his sons against one another for the crown.
Get Happy!
- Archikulture Digest
- January 19, 2020
Orlando’s greatest pianist breaks the comedic wall with this cabaret featuring actual Doctor Demento Hits.
Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho
- Screen Reviews
- January 17, 2020
A genius of American guitar is profiled in this highly recommended documentary.
Mark St. John
- Music Reviews
- January 16, 2020
King Orange. Review by Stacey Zering.
Julia Haltigan
- Music Reviews
- January 15, 2020
Trouble. Review by Carl F. Gauze.