Author: Cristina Córdova

  • Blood, Tits, Guts, Boobs, and Scary, Scary Witches

    Mother of Tears is bad. Unfortunately, "bad" is a word so far past its usefulness in describing the horror genre, that I may as well call it a cherry red bicycle. I mean, are we talking bad-good or bad-bad? Good horror is an all together different animal, some unusual mixture of great execution and that…

  • It's a Mystery

    Very occasionally, this critic can get it all wrong. Looking at the bespectacled electronic trio (black rectangular frames, black rectangular frames, and ’80s nerd chic frames) with their unobtrusive fashion (jeans, jeans, and khakis), I drew a few conclusions. Later, I asked keyboardist Ryan Olcott whether I had Mystery Palace figured out. Erin Roof: Are…

  • Sci Fi Nerds and Bee Gees' Love Children

    Forget what the press says. Devonte Hynes does not look like AIDS. "It’s pretty harsh," Hynes says about the cruelest comment published about him. "’You look like a terminal illness. You look like death. I don’t know what AIDS looks like." It definitely isn’t him. Decked out in cut-off short shorts, a faux fur hat,…

  • The 160th Trimester

    MUSICElectric Fetus 40 year Anniversary Party It’s hard for me to believe the Electric Fetus has been slingin’ records almost 10 years longer than I’ve been alive. I’m not sure if that makes me feel young or old; I’ve still got a few years to go before I need to start validating my youth. I…

  • Cure for the Common Life

    Your job is a prison, gas is expensive, you’re in debt, and both your house and your SUV aren’t worth the money you chuck at them. During times like these, it’s hard to see the merits of the American way of life. If you’re desperate for some escapism, check out Surfwise, the story of a…

  • A Seemingly Unlikely Marriage

    The widely-discussed flamboyant personality of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) is such that many often forget that Wilde was married and fathered two sons. It is his wife, the comparatively uncovered Constance Wilde, that gets the spotlight in Thomas Kilroy’s The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, which opened June 6 at the Guthrie…