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Animated Dragon soars over box office

Screen Time

published March 7, 2019

The third film in the How to Train Your Dragon series, The Hidden World, took the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the second consecutive wee...

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No surprise: Green Book wins top Oscar

Screen Time

published February 28, 2019

There was no host, the movie that won Best Picture wasn’t great, and everything went wrong. Peter Farrelly, the man behind Movie 43 and some of the...

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Shyamalan completes his comeback with Unbreakable sequel

Screen Time

published January 31, 2019

Once again, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass took the No. 1 spot at a sleepy domestic box office last weekend with just over $19 million in sales. In just...

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Seek out some great Oscar films during the winter movie doldrums

Screen Time

Once again, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass took the No. 1 spot at a very weak U.S. box office, selling just $9.5 million over the weekend, bringing the ...

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Glass hits ceiling; The Upside still up

Screen Time

published January 24, 2019

The third film in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy, Glass, opened at the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office, selling just ove...

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Controversial yet forgettable film leads box office

Screen Time

published January 17, 2019

Neil Burger’s controversial new film, The Upside, took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office last weekend, selling a so-so $19.6 million over its fi...

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Sankofa

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Back in the mid-naughts there was this thing – this club, really – called The Wing Council. Members of the Fort Wayne hip-hop community would gat...

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Vandolah / One More Minute EP

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When I first got to know the music of Mark Hutchins, it was his first New Pale Swimmers album that did the trick. Short, simple, messy, memorable, od...

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Mark Hutchins

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Two years ago, despite years of releasing top-shelf indie rock hotness, Mark Hutchins (formerly of Vandolah) was a little known artist in his hometow...

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Jon Keller

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I’m downstairs at Hyde Brothers Booksellers, lost in the endless aisles, on the hunt for a used copy of Francois Truffaut’s Hitchcock book. With ...

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The Elky Summers

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For the better part of the last decade I’ve done my best to ignore the small town whispers concerning this or that artist – the weakling game of ...

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Lee Miles / Open Your Grievous Heart

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Had Fort Wayne-based singer/songwriter Lee Miles been blessed with better physical health I’ve no doubt he’d have moved on to bigger things by no...

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The B-Sharps / The ‘B’ Is For Party

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Talk to any member of the now defunct B-Sharps and you’ll very likely learn one thing: they don’t like their second album, The “B” Is For Par...

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Jon Keller / Down In a Mirror

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At the bar a few nights ago I found myself disoriented. Or, should I say, more disoriented than usual. A song had come on over the jukebox that I lov...

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Black Label Summer / The Rise & Fall of Josh Hall

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There’s a strange but fitting twang to Black Label Summer frontman Josh Hall, known mostly for his Thunderhawk records and PBR loyalty. Maybe it’...

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House of Bread / Superhuman Tomb

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It sounds like guitarists Omar Afzaal and Bob Haddad, known mostly for their work in All Nite Skate and Castles, are having more fun together – and...

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Yeasayer / Odd Blood

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Do I hate this record? Would I play it with windows down and “normal” people within earshot? Is this just the latest in a long line of post-Pitch...

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Jon Keller

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I’m downstairs at Hyde Brothers Booksellers, lost in the endless aisles, on the hunt for a used copy of Francois Truffaut’s Hitchcock book. With ...

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Castles

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Guitarist Omar Afzaal is in two (or is it three?) bands, works and goes to school. Bassist Ty Brinneman is a founding member of the Soma art collect...

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Mark Hutchins

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Two years ago, despite years of releasing top-shelf indie rock hotness, Mark Hutchins (formerly of Vandolah) was a little known artist in his hometow...

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Thunderhawk

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First of a Two-Part Series: Heroes. Drunken genius. Twitter. The Lee Miles Gang collaborations. Down the Line and Fort Wayne-rockers-as-saviors. These...

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Killer Robots From Space / Powerlifting

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If you were to ask Thunderhawk singer/songwriter Josh Hall about Powerlifting, the debut record under his Killer Robots From Space moniker, he’d pr...

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Lee Miles / Heathen Blux

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Okay, no more pussyfooting or playing it safe; with Heathen Blux, folk-footed songwriter Lee Miles has released an album better than any this reviewer...

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2RQ

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“She was probably the prettiest female celebrity I’ve ever seen in person,” laughed a candid Larry LaQuin Norwood, known to his friends as Quin...

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All Nite Skate / All Nite Skate

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The first time I heard All Nite Skate’s debut EP some two years ago I was blown away. Here was a band living in the same city as me that not only p...

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Left Lane Cruiser

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I spent much of my time in 2003 alphabetizing CDs, cleaning LPs and 45s, explaining the concept of "phasing out" to fans of the cassette format, sell...

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The Chanticleer

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Was Wilco singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy right when he claimed in Sam Jones' documentary, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, that a band needs a single ...

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North River Agents

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The idea came to her in the wee hours of the morning. At 6:30 a.m. one day, Jachell Tolbert awoke from her sleep and knew what the name of her band w...

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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals / Lifeline

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I often stay up late into the night wondering why the 18-year-old version of me thought Ben Harper was some sort of musical god. It's not that t...

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The Orange Opera

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The French philosopher JacquesMaritain once said, "The only artist who does not deserve respect is theone who works to please the public." Four...

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Andromeda / Blue Collar Music

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FortWayne-based hip-hop duo Andromeda are no joke, and by that I mean that theyaren't fake, afraid or passive. They're real, and in a genre wi...

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Roleo and EDS

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I'm sitting on the floor in Joey O's basement on a Sunday afternoon, my back against a half-sized refrigerator full of bottled water, and watching ...

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Lee Miles / 1000 Lions

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For every songwriter willing to churn their guitar with some chutzpah there are at least 1,000 others with no idea what it means to have guts. O...

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Lee Miles

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They look like any other kids. You know, the ones you see chasing a ball on the basketball court or staring glassy-eyed at a video game. They mi...

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Lee Miles / Leaves That Are Green

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I don’t know for certain how one acquires a copy of Lee Miles’ covers-only album, Leaves That Are Green, but I consider myself very lucky t...

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All Nite Skate / Western Shame

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All Nite Skates debut full-length album, Western Shame, begins with an appropriate explosion before spinning into layer after layer of epic gu...

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Sub-Surface

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Dope hip-hop music in Indiana can be hard to come by, said Nearest Nova producer Gyrid Enock Root Lyon when asked about Sub-Surfaces up...

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Blueprint / 1988

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On his first solo effort, Weightless Records honcho Blueprint offers a modern ode to his musical roots for the Rhymesayers-released album 1988. Cap...

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The Chris Stamey Experience / A Question of Temperature

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Originally credited as Chris Stamey and Yo La Tengo, A Question of Temperature began as a neighborly jam session between long-time friends be...

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KK EKO / It Is Coming To Pass!

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Finding the confidence to put one’s creative endeavors out into the world for people to see, hear, touch, interpret, and judge can often times be a ...

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Andromeda / The Need

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Politics aside, much can be said for and against purists of any kind. Tradition and roots are substantial holdings and carry the significance of the...

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