Night of the Pumpkin: Reclaiming What Halloween is All About
When dealing with Halloween, you're also pitting yourself against one of the fab 4 of last century's late movie monsters: Michael Meyers. How can the holiday of Halloween ever be…
A Preview of Contagion: The Trilogy
Never has a movie played off of recent global fears since Night of the Living Dead as has the upcoming movie Contagion, starring, well, everybody. 12 Monkeys just missed the…
HBO’s Game of Thrones Explained…with More Beer
It had to happen. After such an insane response to my HBO's Game of Thrones Explained...with Beer article, I decided to push the envelope and see what I could get…
Shared Progress: A Review of “Late Bloomer” by The Northstar Session
The Inept Owl has been lucky enough to have a few artists in multiple fields come back again and again with new albums, ideas, and visions. It has the feel…
Performance, Feedback, Revision: Rap Artist Baba Brinkman Hits NYC
Rap as an art form has continually evolved. From its tribal, beat-based story-telling syncopation around a fire to its modern, beat-based story-telling syncopation in 50,000 capacity sports arenas, rap has…
When TV Networks Offer Virgin Sacrifices: Fall Previews for ABC
The promotional world of satire and parody mediums is a dark, but adventurous place. The critical gauntlet for bands, movies, television shows, and anything else that accidentally makes it into…
Kipp Goes Noir: Punchlist Movie Reviews
Living in Iowa, there are few forms of entertainment that are sufficient for an ex-art school student. Food is a major activity in the area as we have some of…
Chow Time with Evil Gordon Ramsay: The McRib
When it comes to chain restaurants, the public gets what the public wants. Except when the chain is McDonald's, and what the public wants is the McRib. Then it seems…
An Abridged Trip to the NYC Horror Fest
The New York City Horror Film Festival is another breed of festival, because instead of being stuck in a room of producers and maybe a stunt-man from the movie you've…
The Northstar Session: Winter Collection Review
The Northstar Session is a quartet hailing from California. The four-piece features Matthew Szlachetka on guitar and vocals, Kane McGee on drums and vocals, Shiben Bhattacharya on bass, and Dave…