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Sensitive Skin Most Best of 2014 More Favorites or Whenever

The Editors

I thought it would be fun to ask some Sensitive Skin editors and contributors what they thought was the best of 2014 - not necessarily the "best of" the year—what they liked best during the year, whenever it came out. So I...

The Late Child and Other Animals by Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger – a review

Norman Douglas

The Late Child and Other Animals Written and colored by Marguerite Van Cook Adapted and drawn by James Romberger Fantagraphics Books The Late Child and Other Animals opens in the middle of the blitz with two wide-eyed ...

Found in Phoenix by Amy Ouzoonian – A Review by Jim Feast

Jim Feast

Found in Phoenix by Amy Ouzoonian (New York: Fly By Night Press, 2014) It’s a good thing Amy Ouzoonian put her name on her new book of poems, short stories and plays, Found in Phoenix, because otherwise a reader would t...

The 9 Lives of Ray the Cat Jones: A Novel by Stewart Home

Barbara Adair

The 9 Lives of Ray the Cat Jones: A Novel by Stewart Home (Test Centre, 2014) In June 2013 Stewart Home, an (in) famous London author/writer/performer, receives a parcel. There is no return address on it; or a name to ind...

Crossing Over: A Performance Adventure in Green-Wood Cemetery – Review

Franklin Mount

Crossing Over: A Performance Adventure in Green-Wood Cemetery Part of the BEAT Festival Tour by Atlas Obscura, led and narrated by Allison Meier, with site-specific performances by LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, ...

Double Indemnity—A Review

Franklin Mount

As the film starts, we hear ominous music and see a man’s silhouette, a tall, broad-shouldered man, walking toward us on crutches. A car careens through the dark streets of sunny Los Angeles. Walter Neff (Fred MacMurra...

“Burning Bush”, directed by Agnieszka Holland – Review

Franklin Mount

I saw this movie (originally a three part Czech television miniseries directed by the Polish director, Agnieszka Holland, now being shown in two parts at Film Forum) on Sunday. I bought my ticket in advance, not that there w...

Can You Hear Me God, It’s Me, Godzilla

Marc Olmsted

You may not have seen the new Godzilla, the biggest summer blockbuster yet, but you must have seen the trailers. My review is meant to enhance your experience if you do finally go to your local 3-D IMAX vendor and see what ...

Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg – A Review

Bonny Finberg

Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg An Autonomedia/Unbearable Book, 2014 Bonny Finberg's Kali's Day is an odd combination, a melancholy, picaresque spinning prayer wheel of a novel, almost contemporary and nearly timeless. It ...

Kraftwerk 3D, in concert at the United Palace Theatre

Franklin Mount

Kraftwerk. A band whose name, in English, means "power plant," but, since it's German, the name is somehow more elemental in the band's native language. Basically: power+work. I'm still, this afternoon at least, luxuriat...