politics Archives • Ink 19

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.
Henry Rollins: Live at Luna Park
- Screen Reviews
- May 3, 2004
In the Spring of 1999, Henry Rollins was challenged to appear each Wednesday for eight weeks, and give a different spoken word performance each time. Joe Frietze gives us the rundown on this DVD chronicle.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
- Archikulture Digest
- October 19, 2019
Sleeping your way to the top is one thing, but killing your way up there works a just as well.
Deathtrap
- Archikulture Digest
- October 19, 2019
A writer hits a dry spell and then murders his wife, all in the name of making a hit.
Cabin of Fear
- Archikulture Digest
- October 18, 2019
Campers freak out when a murderer is on the loose and they have no cell phone reception.
Jake La Botz
- Music Reviews
- October 18, 2019
They’re Coming For Me (Hi-Style / Free Dirt). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Howlin Rain
- Music Reviews
- October 17, 2019
Under The Wheels: Live From The Coasts, Volume 1 (Silver Current Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
The Lilacs
- Music Reviews
- October 16, 2019
Endure (Pravda). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Davina and the Vagabonds
- Music Reviews
- October 16, 2019
Sugar Drops (Red House Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Once on This Island
- Archikulture Digest
- October 15, 2019
A young girl finds love in the wrong place and ends up as a tree.
The Paranoyds
- Music Reviews
- October 15, 2019
Carnage Bargain (Suicide Squeeze). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Archikulture Digest
- October 14, 2019
Vengeance is a dish best served in London.