The Intersection of Faith and Culture
In a recent episode of Girls, Hannah, the main character of the show, snorts cocaine, goes to a club where she literally loses her shirt (and for the rest of the episode she wears a mesh tank top and no bra), imposes on her best friend during a one-night stand, […]
In the week leading up to her return as the host and performer of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, bets were taken on Miley Cyrus’s performance. (How risqué would her outfits be? How many times would she pull a Gene Simmons with her tongue? How controversial would her skits be?) But […]
I discovered Mutemath at Creation Fest in 2005. They’ve been one of my favourite bands ever since. I’ve followed their progression closely since they started out on a Christian label playing youth conferences. They’ve now jumped ship from the church scene and are forging their own path through heavy touring, developing […]
It was around the end of high school that my musical tastes took a drastic turn. An older friend burned me a CD (so throwback) featuring some early White Stripes, Modest Mouse and selections off Radiohead’s Kid A. It took multiple listens to get over how odd the music sounded […]
Today’s Best Podcasts I am a podcast junkie. I love them. I have probably test-driven well over 30 podcasts over the years, keeping some and discarding the rest. This process has taught me the number one rule of listening to podcasts: never listen to a podcast unless you really want […]
January 2012. I ejected the last DVD and breathed a satisfied sigh. I had finished the tenth and final season of Smallville. The journey that had begun when some friends introduced me to this television retelling of Superman’s teenage years had come to a close. Sort of. Because, on the […]