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Jared Rasic

Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.

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John, Paul, George and MURDER

“The Beatles Die On Tuesday” premieres at 2nd Street Theate
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It’s always interesting to look back on certain moments in history and wonder what you would have done. Would you kill baby Hitler? Launch Apple a few years early? Clinton Clark’s play, “The Beatles Die On Tuesday,” takes an interesting trip through history, following an alternate timeline to its logical and powerful conclusion. “The Beatles […]

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Best Place to Understand Millennials

Townshend’s Teahouse (OMG! LOL!)
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Townshend’s Teahouse is a perfect place for Millennial watching, as the youngsters (let’s say ages 13-23) have chosen Townshend’s as their downtown hangout spot. Young love is sparked and snuffed out, old friendships are rekindled and Pokemons are most seriously hunted. Older generations complain the Millennials are a bunch of leftist pinko softies who care […]

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Best Wine Shop

1st place | Sip
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Emy and Brad Sanchez have a good thing going with Sip Wine Bar: A perfect location on the corner of 14th and Galveston, a friendly and knowledgeable staff and not the faintest whiff of pretension. The atmosphere of Sip is relaxed and jovial and that sense of stuffiness that can be found in some wine […]

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Hunting For Freedom

“Wilderpeople” is a delightful New Zealand oddity
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“Hunt For the Wilderpeople” is one of those movies that you can only describe as lovely. The script, the tone and the performances all combine to make a movie that just soars by, content to be exactly what it is and nothing more. The film tells the story of Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), an orphaned […]

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Squad Goals

Can something be so bad it’s brilliant?
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The narrative being constructed by critics and fandom right now is that of a battle between DC Comics’ Extended Cinematic Universe (DCEU) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). While Marvel’s started back in 2008 with the first “Iron Man” film and is plotted through 2019’s “Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2,” DC is still in […]

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Patton Oswalt Speaks

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Michelle McNamara was a true crime writer who was focused on catching the The Golden State Killer: a rapist and murderer who struck throughout California from 1979 to 1986. She married comedian Patton Oswalt in 2005 and gave birth to their daughter Alice in 2009. In April of this year she died in her sleep, […]

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Keeping it Real

Sister Carol converts the masses
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Sister Carol has been making reggae music longer than I have been alive, and her message is only getting stronger. Born in Denham Town in West Kingston, Jamaica, she immigrated to Brooklyn when she was 14. Her father was an engineer with Radio Jamaica, so music was in her blood for as long as she […]

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Risky Business

“Nerve” is a movie in search of a soul
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Oh, “Nerve,” you had so much promise, and you squandered it so hard. Taking cues from the very simple premise of David Fincher’s under-appreciated 1997 thriller, “The Game,” “Nerve” wants to be so many different things. It’s a teen romance, a cyber thriller, a horror movie, a parable about social media and a finger wagging […]

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