General culture

By Tony Nunes , Dreaming Genius co-editor  There are nine more months left in 2011.   January until early April tend to be the dead months of movie going, and now its time for some fun (and some really bad) summer flicks followed by some heady and even more fun fall movies.   While it’s too early to know everything that’s coming out, or even know what a lot of the upcoming movies are about yet, there are some pretty exciting features that have caught some early buzz.   Part one of this two...Read Full Story

An essay by  David Millerchip Artwork by  Harry Wareham “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die”  - Paul Simon It’s fairly safe to say that as we have all grown older, our music tastes have matured and grown to appreciate many different genres, artists and composers from all periods. Certainly when I was younger, growing up during the 90’s, I was introduced to artists from an earlier era through the tapes my father used to play in the...Read Full Story

By  Steven Maclean , Dreaming Genius co-editor Around this time of year (nobody knows exactly when) St. George's Day happens. No-one knows what it entails, or who St. George was, we just know it's the National Day of England, and that it's shit. Without tabloid pullouts of St. George's Cross helpfully marking the windows of households afflicted by a plague of vapid patriotism, St. George's would be just another day. But for those who think foreigners have ruined England, it offers an...Read Full Story

By Tony Nunes , Dreaming Genius co-editor Last Monday began a three-day tournament that may or may not have repercussions on the remainder of human existence, as we know it.  The jury is still out.  On the long running quiz show Jeopardy , two former champions of the game went up against a new and much heralded foe, the likes of which have only been seen in the writings of Isaac Asimov and Phillip K Dick.  Watson, an AI program designed by the technology gurus at IBM would become an overnight...Read Full Story

By Tony Nunes , Dreaming Genius co-editor Of all the films set in Rio de Janeiro most give the sense that the city is a haven for violent, drug-run favela’s and sex obsessed hedonists. Never have I seen a film that contradicts these stereotypes more than Lucy Walker’s documentary Waste Land . From an aerial vantage point Rio screams paradise, with its lush hillside homes painting the landscape in bright greens and reds, its white coastline accenting the stark blue Atlantic. It’s from this...Read Full Story