Tim Dickinson

As the year comes to an end, we’re getting ready to cover the November-December awards season where studios stuff their best releases into the last two months of the year in order to qualify for Oscar voting. It’s a bit of a tricky system and one that explains why movies released earlier in the year don’t often get nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes. There are exceptions, of course, but […]

“Sent from God.” That is how Mia Carucci signs off emails. As our interview began, she asserted, “I make God music.” On the surface, her music, a modern twist on trip-hop, hypnotic and dark, lacks an overtly spiritual valence. But spirituality appears in her music beyond any institution. There is no prescribed ritual; instead, the divine is immanent. God is to be found in nature, everywhere. “I don’t pray on […]

I thought the septum was an obvious clue. The Doc Martens scuffed by random punk shows and hikes, the Phoebe Bridgers shirt my English Professor bought me after, with stains from rubbed off makeup. I thought all these subtly unsubtle hints could be clues to indirectly telling my family I was queer. The more formal, festive “coming outs” never felt right to me — big balloons grazing walls and streamers […]