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Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ Walk into a Gay Bar
- Archikulture Digest
- March 3, 2022
Oscar Wilde recounts his life story, his views on art, and his views on love.
Dinner with Booker T.
- Archikulture Digest
- March 1, 2022
A one-man show about one of the biggest civil rights heroes of all time.
Henry IV, Part 1
- Archikulture Digest
- February 23, 2020
The War of the Roses spills out across this stage with gags and battles galore.
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 27, 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 3, 2019
Well, they made it this far. Let’s see what they’ve accomplished.

This One’s for The Girls
- Archikulture Digest
- June 13, 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 19, 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.

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- Archikulture Digest
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- Music Reviews
- June 30, 2022
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- Screen Reviews
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- Screen Reviews
- June 28, 2022
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Say Goodnight, Gracie
- Archikulture Digest
- June 27, 2022
Lose a job? Eh, there’s always another one. Review by Carl F. Gauze.
New Music Now 007: crêpe girl
- Features
- June 24, 2022
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- Music Reviews
- June 22, 2022
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Watcher
- Screen Reviews
- June 21, 2022
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