“I come from the core of the flag that bears the name ‘Battle Born,’” frontman Brandon Flowers sings of the Nevada state flag on the…
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As you settle into your homework routine this fall season, crack your window so everything smells like a mixture of leaves and freshly mulched grass,…
The goal of most of today’s movies is to transport an audience elsewhere. Director John Hillcoat achieves this better than most in Lawless, starring Shia…
Although Austin-based singer-songwriter David Ramirez has released several recordings over the past few years, it’s clear from the first track that there is something uniquely…
I heard Kendrick Lamar’s first single from his new album, “Swimming Pools (Drank),” shortly after seeing him perform in Chicago this summer. When I first…
Indie veteran groups Spoon and Wolf Parade have been around for decades. Both have released albums to critical acclaim, both have headlined national (and even international) tours and both…
Just a few months ago in September, I wrote a piece for The Concordian Politics called “Charting a Course”. The gist of the piece was basically the…
Fox News and MSNBC have something very important in common: people aren’t listening to a word they say. Voter trust in the media is reaching new lows,…
It should be obvious to anyone who follows the news even cursorily that the biggest issue in Washington right now is the matter of the…