THERE WAS a bit of a lull after Laika’s 2009 feature debut Coraline, but the local animation studio has once again nailed it with its new release Kubo and the Two Strings. The stop-motion visuals are beyond breathtaking, the scenery is effing majestic, and the characters are likeable in this hero’s journey set in ancient […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Kubo and the Two Strings Is as Good as It Looks
Laika’s Newest Is Sooooo Pretty
Laika’s newest stop-motion feature is sooooo pretty.
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Improv Your Friendships with Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice
If you overlook their pallor, theater kids have a youthful glow, probably because a lot of their time is spent playing make-believe and doing improv exercises. Comedy improvisers are next-level stage dweebs who are practically nuclear with that rosy-cheeked exuberance, what with all the riffing and saying yes. But what happens when those theater kids […]
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Ambition and Friendship in Don’t Think Twice
Mike Birbiglia’s Latest Is a Bittersweet Look at Growing Up in Comedy
Mike Birbiglia’s latest is a bittersweet look at growing up in comedy.
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The E-Bike Is the Perfect City Bike
How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Hills and Love E-Biking
How I learned to stop worrying about hills and love e-biking.
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Finding Dory Is Like Oysters on the Half Shell—Kinda Goopy, but Palatable
In 2003’s Finding Nemo, Pixar lost a little orange clownfish named Nemo. Then they found Nemo. And now, more than a decade later, they’re looking for Dory. She’s a blue fish (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) with short-term memory loss, and she gets lost a lot, in ways that’re actually extremely harrowing. Dory is so vulnerable—so […]
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Won’t You Listen to What the DJ’s Spinning?
LADY MISS KIER Spreading a message of positivity that never goes out of style. Joey Moon LADY MISS KIER makes a huge impression, whether it was from first seeing her dance in the music video to Deee-Lite’s 1990 hit “Groove Is in the Heart,” on the cover of Vogue as a style icon of the […]
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It’s a Good Time for the Positivity of Deee-Lite’s Lady Miss Kier
Won’t You Listen to What the DJ’s Spinning?
Won’t you listen to what the DJ’s spinning?
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Nobody Needs Finding Dory
But at Least Pixar Made It Better Than Finding Nemo
But at least Pixar made it better than Finding Nemo.
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Bridgetown: THE WORM! and Photos
Well, Bridgetown‘s over. My brain is now a melty, gooey puddle of laffs, chuckles, guffaws, and snortles. I hardly have words, so let’s just look at Pat Moran’s great photos from the fest, shall we? Saturday’s Hey Ladies! show had the weirdest (bestest) performance I saw all weekend. Emcee Lizzy Pilcher introduced this bizarro act […]
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Bridgetown Day 4: Here’s What I’m Checking Out
Guy Branum: A Gay Bash for the Ages Pat Moran Between this weekend’s scorcher and all the late-night laffs, this Bridgetown might be the death of me, or at least the wilt of me. I saw Moshe Kasher at last night’s Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction at Refuge, and wow. I knew he was smart as […]
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Bridgetown Day 2: Baked with Brendon Small and Steve Agee
James Urbaniak sang Judas’ death song from Jesus Christ Superstar. Guys, I know nothing about Jesus Christ Superstar. Last night at Bridgetown Comedy Fest‘s Baked show, hosts Steve Agee and Brendon Small took the dark chocolate of music and dipped it in the creamy peanut butter of stand-up comedy. It was delicious. And also surprisingly […]