by Advocate Staff | Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
For a world-class cut-up, Adam Trent hates cutting people up. The 30-year-old magician never pulls those traditional tricks, like sawing beautiful women in half onstage. He’d prefer to leave you in stitches from the stand-up comedy that drives his shows from illusion...
by Advocate Staff | Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
It’s easy to overstate a film’s importance to the canon. But it’s hard to do that with Akira, the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed 1988 Japanese science fiction animated film that influenced action movies like The Matrix and brought on a tidal wave of...
by Advocate Staff | Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
The images we consume these days aren’t static things — they scroll past at high speed as we flick through our social media feeds. We are so inundated with new photos, even in idle moments, that it’s easy to forget what a powerful pause button a camera shutter can be....
by Advocate Staff | Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
Nothing lights up The Arts Block like the Ladies in Jazz series, which always draws a crowd and delivers a funky fusion of music genres with passion and grace. Samirah Evans, a New Orleans-seasoned singer who has performed with the likes of James Brown and B.B. King...
by By Kristin Palpini | Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
If you think of Internet speed as a flying mode of transportation, most of us are on a rocket with broadband while many people living in the Hilltowns are stuck riding a roofless biplane, aka DSL.If you’ve never heard of DSL, or the shrieking grating noise a computer...
