Sometimes leaving home is the best way to learn to love it. When Silverlake songstresses the Watson Twins, Chandra and Leigh Watson, were still alternative kids from Kentucky considering moving out to Los Angeles to make it as musicians, the last thing they wanted was to be associated with country. Read more...

X-Factor #15 By Peter David and Pablo Raimondi MARVEL COMICS Despite consisting only of still illustrations and dialogue bubbles, Peter David’s “X-Factor” manages to bring just the right amount of television sensibility to what could have just been yet another Marvel comic starting with “X.” A veteran writer of television, David finally seems to be telling the cinematic stories he always wanted without being crippled by an effects budget or the limited viewership of a cult audience. Read more...

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In Robert Tannenbaum’s Fairyland, the fairies don’t fly, they ride scooters. They don’t wear forest greenery, but they might have hot pink or blond hair. And they certainly don’t bear any resemblance to Tinkerbell ““ unless she was secretly an erotic lesbian. Read more...

You’d think coffee, coming straight from the ground, would be an obviously organic food. Nope. Turns out coffee beans are probably as chemically processed as a Big Mac. Read more...

They’re finally coming home. For many involved in the Stephen Petronio Company’s production of “BLOOM,” their performances Friday night and Saturday night at Royce Hall will be a homecoming of sorts. Read more...

Typical images of the 1930s in America: the Great Depression, migrant farm workers, Herbert Hoover. Few think of cinema. But the 1930s mark one of the most heralded decades in movie history. Read more...