politics

The Three Musketeers
- Archikulture Digest
- February 9, 2020
Nonstop action from sword fights to ring kissing gives us an action packed evening a rollicking fun!
Eddie Izzard
- Event Reviews
- May 27, 2019
The cross-dressing comic returned to Memphis with history, philosophy, and plenty of laughs.
Hamlet
- Archikulture Digest
- February 12, 2019
A young prince returns from college to discover both he and his widowed mother are screwed.
Assassins
- Archikulture Digest
- November 12, 2018
A musical about attempts to assassinate The President. Only Sondheim could pull it off.
The Bigot
- Archikulture Digest
- March 4, 2018
Can impending death re-orient your political compass?
Pentecostal
- Archikulture Digest
- February 6, 2018
Art and politics collide when an ancient painting compromises refugee’s attempts to flee a war.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Archikulture Digest
- February 5, 2018
The love story between a psychotic Irish revolutionary and his cat. Wear old clothes, the blood sprays to row F in this dark, dark comedy.

Native Gardens
- Archikulture Digest
- January 7, 2018
It’s a clash of wills and politics as a new homeowner fights his neighbor over begonias and fences.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
- Screen Reviews
- May 4, 2015
The semi-truthful, semi-complete but always interesting history of the National Lampoon magazine and the comedy revolution it spawned.
Ghetto Physics
- Screen Reviews
- January 10, 2011
Carl F Gauze ponders the curriculum for the civics class no one will give you in school.
Imagining India
- Print Reviews
- January 20, 2010
How does one begin to plan the future of a country that deliberately uses late-night TV as a form of birth control? E.J. Iannelli mulls over the possibilities that IT mogul Nandan Nilekani dreams up in his book Imagining India.
Apollo Up!
- Music Reviews
- November 3, 2009
Walking Papers EP (Grand Palace). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
A Grin Without a Cat
- Screen Reviews
- July 8, 2009
This reissue of Chris Marker’s epic documentary about the rise (and fall) of Communist ideals in the 60s and 70s shows Carl F Gauze the dangers of blind faith in anything, be it a person or a theory.
J. Matthew Gerken, Christian Kiefer, and Jefferson Pitcher
- Music Reviews
- December 17, 2008
Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies (Standard Recording Company). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Christian Death
- Music Reviews
- October 20, 2008
American Inquisition (Season of Mist). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Gwar
- Event Reviews
- October 13, 2008
Bloody, funny, and LOUD, Gwar returns to the stage with openers Kingdom of Sorrow and Toxic Holocaust. Carl F Gauze dodges a giant Chekhovian penis to come face-to-face with Satan at Orlando’s Club Firestone.
The Top 19 Dead People of 2007
- Features
- March 22, 2008
Don’t you dare close the book on 2007 yet! Carl F Gauze reviews the Top 19 celebrity deaths of the year that was, and you’re not likely to see these folks in soft-focus pinups in People Magazne.
Regards from Serbia
- Print Reviews
- August 24, 2007
Graphic journalist Alexsandar Zograf has recently had his strips amalgamated and published as Regards from Serbia. Eric J. Iannelli wonders how it stacks up against existing graphic accounts of the Balkan civil wars of the ’90s.
The Top 19 Deaths of 2005
- Features
- January 5, 2006
Carl F Gauze selects the 19 most important public figures to pass away in the last 12 months. Sad — but true!
King Missile III
- Music Reviews
- December 16, 2004
Royal Lunch (Important Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

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Threesome Vol. 2 (Lojinx). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefe Collection Blu-ray
- Screen Reviews
- January 13, 2021
In spite of, or perhaps because of, the films’ budget and time restraints the filmography of William Grefé is not without considerable charm and which is masterfully captured in this four disc Blu-ray set from Arrow Video.
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- January 12, 2021
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- Music Reviews
- January 12, 2021
Humo. Review by Stacey Zering.
Guitar Man
- Screen Reviews
- January 11, 2021
He’s the best-selling artist on the Billboard Blues charts, and most people don’t know his name. Who is Joe Bonamassa? Guitar Man tells you that story.
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- Music Reviews
- January 8, 2021
Live at Rockpalast 1981 (MIG). Review by Christopher Long.
Matt Madmally
- Music Reviews
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In The Beginning…. Review by Stacey Zering.
Dahmer
- Screen Reviews
- January 6, 2021
A biopic of Jeffery Dahmer, Milwaukee’s most famous mass murderer. Not for the faint of heart.