Arts
Review: One Piece: Collection No. 12
This collection of One Piece has got to be one of my favorites by far. Aside from all of the wonderful backstories and flashbacks that you get about Robin and also Luffy, there are a ton of epic battles and fights in this collection. … read more
Review: D-Frag: The Complete Series
Originally a manga series created by Tomoya Haruno, D-Frag was quickly turned into an animated TV series that aired from Jan.– Mar 2014. … read more
Review: Five Ghosts: Deluxe Edition Vol. 1
Five Ghosts stands poised on the border of metafiction and camp, a serious and self-aware celebration of pulp fiction in all its awesome ridiculousness. … read more
Impartworks: Craft Lake City Artisan
Impartworks impartworks.com Two years ago, Sacha Mercier took an unprecedented leap of faith into the world of functional design and community-centric craftsmanship. He thought of a name—Impartworks—and set his driveway up with a workbench, saw and drill. Using reclaimed wood—because free, recycled materials were initially his only option—Mercier built his first piece: a charming wall-mount
Review: Postal, Vol. 1
In the small town of Eden, Wyoming dwells a religious cult of sinners and murder mysteries. … read more
Review: Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Suffering from a particularly bewildering case of sequelitis, Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor is more than bad—it’s downright disturbing. … read more
Review: Death Vigil Vol. 1
Stjepan Sejic created something pretty special with Death Vigil. It’s a story about an organization led by the grim reaper that fights a chaotic evil from the unknown—sounds pretty cool on paper, right? … read more
Art Rising: Gallery Stroll Builds Artists Up
In a letter to his son in 1746, statesman Philip Stanhope, the Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, wrote, “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” It’s fatherly advice that holds true 269 years later. Luckily, in the artist community, we have a tradition of mentoring—this tradition of passing down techniques and earned knowledge
Mike Brown: Rose Park Life
I recently moved away from the comfort and convenience of living Downtown to the Rose Park area, which is happily located north and west of Downtown. Most of my grown-up friends who aren’t total alcoholics and have managed to maintain a decent credit score and somehow pay off their student loans have bought houses out
Review: The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner (Blu-ray) Director: Russell Crowe Warner Bros. Street: 07.28 Gone are the days where I could watch the news and hear about how Russell Crowe pummeled a random person or threw a phone at the face of a hotel concierge. What we have now is a much more subdued Crowe—so subdued, in