These are the first Comments (or letters from the editors), printed in the first two issues.
From Volume 1, Issue 1:
“If you don’t treat your baby right, she’ll come see me some lonely night.”
-Steve Earle, “Graveyard Shift”
For those of you who have tired of what the Ithaca area has to offer in terms of news [...]
Author Archive
Letter From the Editors
Polaroids
By Nina Boutsikaris
I pump gas and watch what I think is a heron rise out of a flooded field across the salt-stained highway. Blades of grass poke up in all directions, brown and folded, collapsing over each other with resignation. Winter in these forgotten towns, Schooner and Lisle, Georgetown and Liberty, winter here is merciless [...]
Buzzcuts December 08
Follow the link below to read the Buzzcuts for the Denial Issue
Read the rest of this entry »Mister Lonely
Bizarre and boring, Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely lacks direction. Despite its serious problems, Korine manages to create beautiful shots, making the cinematography one of the only elements that works in the film.
The film follows two stories. One is of a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna), who is out of place in his home in Paris [...]
The Night the Sky Exploded
By Rhiannon Marino
A thin beam of car headlight slipped around the edge of the heavy curtain that stood in its way. It fell across the mound of blanket that lay beneath the windowsill, tracing the folds of woven fabric, searching for life. An eyelid fluttered open from deep beneath the shadows of pillows and downy [...]
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk’s work has not been adapted since David Fincher’s legendary Fight Club in 1999, so director Clark Gregg took a risk when he decided to undertake Palahniuk’s first bestseller, Choke, released by Fox Searchlight this year.
In Palahniuk’s Choke, Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a casual sex addict, spends his time earning money in unusual ways, including [...]
Santogold
Santi White is no stranger to the music industry. She has worked for years as a producer and songwriter, writing lyrics for pop superstars such as Ashlee Simpson and Lily Allen, as well as collaborating with Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. Her debut album as Santogold has shown that she [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sunn O)))
2008 marked the 10th anniversary of pioneering drone-doom band Sunn O))) –10 years since founding members Stephen O’Malley (ex-Khanate) and Greg Anderson (ex-Goatsnake, Southern Lord Records) released the thick slab of rumbling Earth-inspired doom known as The Grimmrobe Demos. To celebrate this historic event, the two embarked on a four-city U.S. tour, playing material exclusively [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Nerdy TV
Then
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
The first broadcast of Mister Rogers’ premiered in 1968, though we all watched it growing up, even until its final episode in 2001. The show’s simplicity was quintessential and was a definite appeal to the show. We remember the show for Mister Rogers’ changes between cardigans and suit jackets and for the ending [...]
Education at Risk, Teachers Needed
How Teach for America is bridging the achievement gap
By Angela Durand
Imagine not being able to read or write. Imagine your zip code determining whether or not you would attend a well-funded public school. Imagine knowing that there’s a fifty-fifty chance you might not graduate high school. For 13 million children in America, this is their [...]



