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While trauma is universal, it is also your own private hell. Living with trauma is something we all get to experience at some point and the ...

Oddly enough, I actually did go to an Interpol concert once - this was in Germany several years ago, and a friend asked me to. The concert w...

When it comes to the Academy Awards, everybody likes to quote Christopher Hitchens who famously said that it is impossible to have a nourish...

It takes guts to write a detective story where the identity of the murderer is never in doubt. In the end, this is what elevates great art a...

Every Nick Cave concert is an event, even the weather treats it as such. Italy is a scorched country these days, undergoing a heatwave of hi...

I have always believed in a certain distance between the artist and the audience. Which was why it puzzled me so much when a professor of En...

I like Regina Spektor. Her music may appear cutesy and contrived on occasion (kitschy, too), but she is a talented songwriter. Songs like ...