by The Last City | Feb 23, 2015 | Broken Clocks
Disclaimer: Hundreds of thoughts went through my head as I watched the fallout, debate and outrage over the events in Ferguson. I think, like many others, I needed time to process and see things more clearly. I have no properly founded stance on who is guilty of...
by The Last City | Jan 13, 2015 | Broken Clocks
There’s nothing as disarming as a mirror. Especially when the reflection is a different race, faith and operating system… Over time, my line of inquiry had steadily progressed from the casual “What do you think God is like?” to a less...
by The Last City | Jan 13, 2015 | Music Reviews
The Gray Haven’s first full length album, “Fire and Stone”, was released on January 6, 2015. What makes this record both impressive and intriguing is its ability to create and explore a deeply relatable, fiction world. Each song in some way begins...
by The Last City | Oct 28, 2014 | Modern Classical Music, Music Reviews
Kings Kaleidoscope is a multi-MULTI-piece band with everything from a strings trio, to a horn section, to the occasional tubular bell appearance. Led by Chad Gardner, they have managed to not just blend their various instruments, but conscientiously add and subtract...
by The Last City | Oct 4, 2014 | Modern Classical Music, Music Reviews
I have spent a lot of time scouring Noisetrade, Youtube, Reverbnation and the like getting really excited about a song from this or that band, the most recent single from an artist I’ve always loved, or the impressive production quality of otherwise mediocre...
by The Last City | Sep 24, 2014 | Short Stories
“Don’t tell Marya. Don’t stop smiling. Don’t stop…” “Mommy, what does it say?” From above, her eyes seemed strangely enlarged, as if every aspect of her body was a frame for those two living portraits. There was a simple...
by The Last City | Aug 13, 2014 | Broken Clocks
I was sitting in my living room chatting with a man who, while attending church, considers himself a muslim, but wouldn’t feel welcome in a mosque. He spoke about Jesus and Muhammad with equal respect, and drew a parallel that put much of what I thought I...
by The Last City | Jul 28, 2014 | Broken Clocks
“Walls” has been the anthem of my angsty years…you know, that brief period of frustration and unsatisfiable anger from age 15 to 27. Emery’s music spoke to me in such a way that even today, should I have a music-trading session with a friend,...
by The Last City | Jun 4, 2014 | Broken Clocks
A year and a half ago, having been living in Hiroshima, Japan for six months, I had a terribly hard time not laughing out loud when I realized the two mid-afternoon visitors to my apartment were in fact Jehovah’s Witnesses… We had pieced together a...
by The Last City | May 22, 2014 | Broken Clocks
(Please Read Introduction First for Disclaimer) I think the fastest I have ever driven a car was about 10 years ago, on the two mile strip between the Forest Drive and Leesburg Road exits on I-77. I don’t know for sure but it was well into triple digits, in a...
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