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SUN BLOOD STORIES: "UP COMES THE TUNNEL"
Sun Blood Stories. Photo: © Jenny Bowler. All rights reserved.A continuing tale of two cities. Sometimes I wonder if San Francisco is the silver backing to the mirror called Boise or if Boise is the...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE MIX-UP—Revisiting The Evening Class Interview With...
In the Fall of 2007 I was invited by Bruce Fletcher, a colleague from the Bay Area and then-programmer for the Idaho International Film Festival (IIFF) to attend the festival's upcoming edition....
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Not only has the vinyl arrived for the much-anticipated Sun Blood Stories September release of "Haunt Yourself", but the searing second video for the album ("All the Words in Meaning") has been...
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FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW OF UNEARTH (2020)
“A querencia is a place the bull naturally wants to go to in the ring, a preferred locality... It is a place which develops in the course of the fight where the bull makes his home. It does not usually...
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FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW OF LA DOSIS / THE DOSE (2020)
NOT FOR THE SPOILER-WARY!!!How do you envision an angel of death? Is the angel gendered male or female, robed in religiosity? If male, is he young, handsome and kind, like Robert Redford in his role as...
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FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW: THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND (2020)
Consistency is a quality I respect in the Fantasia International Film Festival. They are consistent in their commitment to inviting and supporting new talent in genre films—grooming them with the most...
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NOW STREAMING / NETFLIX—REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020)
As synopsized, Jeff Orlowski’s Netflix original documentary The Social Dilemma (2020)“explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own...
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MICHAEL HAWLEY PREVIEWS SFFILM 64
It's been a year since SFFILM's 63rd edition was Covid-cancelled, a hapless victim of its position on the festival calendar year. Unlike Sundance, Berlin and Palm Springs, the fest was unable to squeak...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY—The Evening Class Interview With Cassandra Peterson (All...
Eleven years ago, dragstar impresario Joshua Grannell (better known to his fans as Peaches Christ) embarked on his first feature film All About Evil (2010), which featured actress Cassandra Peterson...
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TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 9 (2021)—The Evening Class Interview With Smokey Brights
Any day that releases two new singles by Seattle band Smokey Brights [Facebook / Twitter / Instagram] is cause for celebration. “Honey Eye” and “Unity”, produced by Andy Park (Death Cab for Cutie,...
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EDITORIAL: A NOTE TO THE READERSHIP OF THE EVENING CLASS
What a difference a decade makes. Or for that matter, try short of two. The Evening Class project began in 2006 as an enthusiastic exploration of the self-publishing possibilities of the blogging...
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REVIEW: DEER HOOF ON RIVER COBBLES (2022)
Dendrochronology is the word that comes to mind in assessing poet Walker Abel’s body of work in anticipation of the April 22, 2022 release of his fourth volume of poetry Deer Hoof on River Cobbles, to...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY / 2007 FRAMELINE31 / THE FALL OF '55—The Evening Class...
In anticipation of a free screening of The Fall of ’55 scheduled for Saturday, May 14, 2022, 6:00PM at The Community Center, 1088 N. Orchard St. in Boise, Idaho, to be followed by an onstage discussion...
View ArticleBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER: THE SHOW ON THE ROOF—The Evening Class Interview...
As a young homosexual growing up in southern Idaho in the 1960s and 1970s, it was impossible to not be aware of what was variously referred to as the “Boise homosexuality scandal”, the “Morals Drive”,...
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THE FALL OF ’55—Q&A With Seth Randal for TCC Benefit Screening
Seth Randal (2022). Photo: Michael Guillén.The Show On the Roof (2022), the musical adaptation of Seth Randal’s documentary The Fall of ’55 (2006), boasted its world premiere at the Boise Contemporary...
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OUTFEST 40 / FRAMELINE 46: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS (2022)—THE EVENING CLASS...
Photo: © 2022 Corey Nickols, courtesy gettyimages.comWhereas one is an acknowledged auteur’s megaplex arthouse horror confidently boasting a first-tier cast, and the other a modestly-produced...
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HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG (2021)—THE EVENING CLASS...
Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift...
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REVIEW: GRATITUDE REVEALED (2022)
Described as a “cinematic quilt”, award-winning cinematographer, director and producer Louie Schwartzberg’s Gratitude Revealed (2022) stitches together finessed medallions of color, texture and rhythm...
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MVFF 44—REVIEW: PATH OF THE PANTHER (2022)
The role of wildlife photography and, by extension, cinematography as a conservation initiative had its meager beginnings in the early 1900s when George Shiras (nicknamed “Grandfather Flash”) published...
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REVIEW: PIGGY (2022)
In an early scene of Carlota Pereda’s Piggy (2022), the maligned protagonist Sara (in an amazingly brave and assured performance by Laura Galán) is an overweight teen who secretly fantasizes on being...
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