Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things,” in 2022, one of the series regulars, Joe Keery, released “Decide,” his second album as Djo. His career as a musician largely existed in...
The undercurrent of unsatisfied lust that runs through “Élisabeth” bursts to the fore when Michel, giving a high-school student named Jacqueline a lift, introduces himself under a false name and then unhesitatingly dares, as she later says, to...
The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter relationship, perhaps more than any other, seems to defy a fixed point of view,” Rachel Aviv writes in...
Everything is watching you. The snakes, of course, along with the birds, bears, turtles, fish, rabbits, and horses. Also: the tables, the chairs, the bridges, the tents, the rocks, the plants, the trees, the trucks, the boats, and...
I find it hard to even write the words “DJ Earworm.” I’ve tried to say the word “mashup” out loud alone while I’m typing, and it feels as though I’m saying, “Come see Lady Gaga perform at the...
There are two ways to describe what “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is about. One is, What if someone actually tried to use their celebrity sex pass? The other is a parody of “The Wizard of...
Celebrities get engaged all the time; sometimes they even go through with the wedding. Dua Lipa and Callum Turner recently got married at a town hall in London and then hosted a larger ceremony, a few days later,...
Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in Gabriella Smith’s “Anthozoa,” for violin, cello, piano, and percussion, which evoked the microscopic bustle of coral reefs, with clicks and...
