There are few tales more compelling than those which boil down to “how do we get back home?” While Jacqueline Carey’s sixth installment in the Kushiel’s Legacy series, Kushiel’s Mercy, is many things – a fantasy adventure, a love story, a war story – the driving premise of the book is about Imriel, fully-grown up in both body and mind now, trying not only to get back home, but to make sure home is there when he arrives.
Singer-songwriter Phil Ayoub (pronounced A-yoob), is a deep-thinking, deep-feeling, quintessential all American boy from Boston. Former frontman of indie rock band Riverside Train, Ayoub decided to go solo when the band broke up. A prolific songwriter he had over 40 of his own acoustic demos already for an album when fate intervened, Ayoub saw an ad on a local trade website for musician/producer, Tim Bradshaw, looking to work with local talent and an accidental partnership was born.
The Adventures of Slim and Howdy is a comic romp based on the alter-egos of country music duo Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn (aka Brooks and Dunn). Several years ago, they began incorporating the fictional adventures of Slim (Dunn) and Howdy (Brooks) into their liner notes, and once enough adventures were created, they collaborated with Bill Fitzhugh, known for his comic mysteries.
Imagine living in a place where even suggesting there has been a crime is a crime. A crime against the state punishable by, at best, being sent away for a life of hard labour in a deserted frozen wilderness, and at worst, execution without a fair trial. Where your neighbours can turn on you and name you as a traitor and the police can search your home for any reason at any moment. A life where no one, not even your own family, can be trusted.
Chick flicks. Gotta love them. They make you laugh a little, cry a little (sometimes) and generally leave you with that feel-good-fuzzy feeling. Well, here’s another chick flick to add to the list, which has lots of the ‘laugh’ and none of the ‘cry’.
If Kushiel’s Scion was a coming of age novel, then the middle book in the Kushiel’s Legacy series is very much a novel of revenge, for in it, author Jacqueline Carey sees our lead character, Prince Imriel no Montreve de la Courcel (Imri to his friends), fall in love with someone he can’t marry, commit to a state marriage with a woman he does not love truly, and end up losing her to a horrible death, all within the first third of the book.
Punk-pop band The Dollyrots sophomore album Because I’m Awesome is precisely what pop-punk should be; fun, honest, in your face, and accessible. Poppy without compromising punk.
I have always been a very outspoken critic of the corn-fed, watered down, straight-off-the-tractor, comb-in-the-mouth, artistically barren music that is Christian “rock”. As far as I am concerned it has no redeeming artistic or social value, in that it neither inspires people to worship nor to appreciate great music.
Death at a Funeral is quintessentially English in terms of its humour and cast. The title alone sounds morose and depressing, yet it’s anything but that. Okay, so the premise is a tad macabre but this charming little comedy is well worth watching.
Stardust is a really sweet and charming movie that boasts a stellar cast and is filled with good humour and relatively unpredictable plot twists. At first glance, it may look like your typical run-of-the-mill fairy tale, complete with exhausted stereotypes and routine plot. But it’s so not.
Marsha Mason has been one of America's favorite actors since she first came to national attention when she starred in The Goodbye Girl.
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Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist, who makes his living publishing fine art prints via the internet.
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