politics Archives • Ink 19

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.
Jeff Ott
- Music Reviews
- April 15, 2004
Will Work For Diapers (Subcity). Review by Carl F Gauze.

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Melanie – For One Night Only
- Screen Reviews
- March 21, 2019
With 38 albums under her belt, sixties pop sensation Melanie is still performing.
Eli “Paperboy” Reed
- Interviews
- March 21, 2019
With the upcoming release of his eagerly awaited new album, 99 Cent Dreams, soul singer Eli “Paperboy” Reed speaks in depth about his songwriting process and working with the legendary vocal group, The Masqueraders, and Grammy winning producer, Matt Ross-Spang, with Generoso Fierro.
Joe “Survival” Caruso
- Music Reviews
- March 20, 2019
Sunshine Blues (Lakehouse Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Teen Movie Hell
- Print Reviews
- March 19, 2019
Teen Movie Hell visits the evolution of high school classics.
Tobiasz Sienkiewicz
- Music Reviews
- March 18, 2019
Time to Begin. Review by Stacey Zering.
What A Glorious Feeling!
- Archikulture Digest
- March 17, 2019
Gene Kelly and his writing partner Stan Donen create “Singin’ in the Rain” despite disease, disagreement and a collapsing MGM fighting them all the way.
Boo Ray
- Event Reviews
- March 15, 2019
Boo Ray gets intimate with a small Iowa crowd. Jeremy Glazier is amongst the precious chosen few.
The Alice Howell Collection
- Screen Reviews
- March 14, 2019
The films of the movie comedienne Alice Howell are a great glimpse of early film-making.
Todd Snider
- Music Reviews
- March 14, 2019
Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 (Aimless Records). Review by James Mann.
Doctor Demento Covered in Punk
- Music Reviews
- March 13, 2019
Doctor Demento Covered in Punk (Demented Punk Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.