Charlie Huston is a difficult writer to classify. Hes written some great crime novels including the Hank Thompson trilogy, The Shotgun Rule and the fabulous The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. He wrote five book Joe Pitt series, noirish tales of vampires in New York City, and...
Brann Dailor is one of those drummers which being a drummer myself makes me feel completely inadequate when I sit down at my kit. Sure, I could give you some bullshit line about how he inspires me to take my playing to the next level, but thats exactly what it would be, bullshit. Branns playing...
Lisa Lutz was an unknown writer with a single film credit to her name when her debut novel The Spellman Files was published in 2007. It was a very funny book about a family of private investigators, but what has kept readers returning for multiple books is the main character of Isabel Izzy...
They call it the worlds oldest profession for a reason. As long as there has been sex, there have been women who figured out that some men will pay for it. I shouldnt even assume heterosexual men and women. There can be gigolos, gay services and all sorts of crossover. Yet as long as this profession...
Its not uncommon for an actor to have several movies at a film festival like Sundance. You make some independent movies in a year, they could all get in. It is a bit rarer for a director to have two in a fest, because except for Steven Soderbergh,...
Back in the early 80s, Adam Ant was the king of the wild post-punk frontier. Mentored by former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and his fashion designer partner Vivienne Westwood, the London born art school dropout created a visually vivid world of pirates and dandies which brought color back to...
Taylor Stevens made a splash in 2011 with her novel The Informationist. The book introduced readers to Vanessa Michael Munroe, a brilliant, knife-fighting information hunter who travels to Africa to hunt down a missing woman. Stevens followed the book up with The Innocent, where Munroe...