AFI Fest 2017
AFI Fest 2017 just wrapped up in Hollywood. Lily and Generoso Fierro review the 22 new feature films that they selected from this year’s eclectic festival program.
Read on for action reports of concerts, festivals, stand-ups, one-acts, and other parades of human entertainment from the passionate reviewers camping out in backstage trenches and after-parties to write about them for you in the morning.
AFI Fest 2017 just wrapped up in Hollywood. Lily and Generoso Fierro review the 22 new feature films that they selected from this year’s eclectic festival program.
Citizen blows the roof off of The Social with sad songs you can mosh to. Vanna Porter documents.
Kids dream of Christmas morning, but for many - including Jen Cray - THE FEST is the most treasured of annual holidays.
Knuckle Puck’s sold out Orlando show was a sweaty one, and Vanna Porter was knee deep in it.
The stars were out for Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con 2017, and Ink 19 took it all in!
Celebrating its golden 50th anniversary, legendary rock / pop / jazz combo, Chicago, returned to Melbourne, Florida’s King Center for another sold-out, hit-packed performance.
The purveyors of prog, Yes, prevailed, producing an impressive Melbourne, Florida performance that Christopher Long was witness to.
A Day to Remember finally bring their Self Help Festival to their home state and Vanna Porter couldn’t be happier to attend.
together PANGEA stack their bill for a blazing Orlando debut that Jen Cray was front and center for.
Green Day welcome West Palm Beach, and Jen Cray, to paradise.
Fast and loud, hot and sticky – this high-energy, five-band collective offered Orlando rock fans one last gasp of summer glory.
Die Alps! blowout popular Tampa hangout New World Brewery one last time, as a record release party for their long awaited full length. Bob Pomeroy was in on the action.
Blondie and Garbage bring their Rage and Rapture Tour to Orlando, and Jen Cray is in heaven.
Veteran alt-rockers keep heads bouncing at Cincinnati’s alt-treasure roadhouse the Motr Pub.
Bursting with non-stop hits, the classic rock triple-threat package tour attracted thousands (and thousands) of dedicated South Florida fans.
Co-founding B-52s singer / songwriter Cindy Wilson delivers an impressive and intimate Orlando club performance.
Three of rock’s most iconic 70s brands united recently in Tampa, FL for a night of non-stop, fist-pumping classics. Christopher Long was, of course, there.
Phantogram were stars in Orlando along with Tycho and Heathered Pearls.
Washed Out wash over Orlando and Jen Cray is swept away on the acid wave.
The Vans Warped Tour is as much a summertime tradition as vacation flings, sunburns, and losing your bathing suit at the beach for music fans of all ages, Jen Cray among them.
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.