Basically: Jojo Rabbit is the anti-hate satire the world needs right now. Jojo Betzler isn’t the Nazi he’s so keen to be, he’s just a 10-year-old boy who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club. His nationalist ideals and anti-Semitic leanings are challenged when Jojo finds that his mother is harboring an enemy of the Nazi state, a young Jewish girl. The thing about an anti-hate satire is that to effectively be “anti-hate” the film has got to make you feel the opposite of hate—LOVE—and Jojo Rabbit does. Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis)… Read more »
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week breaks down the history and influence of the Dead Kennedys.
On this episode of Geek Girl Riot we talk the internet #showdowns happening on the internet and share some new TV shows we’re loving.
To celebrate Late Night’s release , Amazon Studios is sharing some fabulous stories of women and people of color who are killing it in their respective fields of business, politics, media, sports, and entertainment. Cheers to that!
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America’s 44th President was honored over the weekend with a street naming. The new name of Rodeo road, now Barack Obama Boulevard, in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw area of Los Angeles, was unveiled in a ceremony Saturday. Thousands of people were in attendance to celebrate. Former President Obama held a campaign rally at the same spot just after announcing his bid for office in 2007. Thandiwe Abdullah, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Youth Vanguard, took the stage saying “A lot of people will say it’s just another street, but for me, being 15 years old, a black child looking up… Read more »
Maybe a taste of Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor or Skarsgård’s Eric Northman—however off book—could’ve breathed some life into this inept plot.
Behind every successful band there’s a solid management team taking care of all the details. In The Maine’s case, their team at 8123 is supportive, creative, and made up of only two people.
Not every band can release a song on a Wednesday, then have everybody in the audience scream each word back at them live on the following Friday. And not every band can put together a festival in their hometown and bring in fans from around the world in the middle of January. But The Maine is not like every band. “We’ve been so fortunate and lucky to experience what we have,” says vocalist John O’Callaghan. We’re sitting in a building inside Civic Space Park in Phoenix, AZ on the second day of 8123 Fest. Through the windows, This Century plays… Read more »
Pour the coffee, toast the bread, it’s time to Rise Rock n’ Shine.
