Month: October 2016

Review: The premiere episodes of the “Doctor Who” spinoff “Class”

Class

The details The “Doctor Who” spinoff “Class” played on BBC 3 and select markets this past Saturday and will play on BBC America sometime in America in 2017. The primary setting is Coal Hill Academy, a fictional school that’s been featured throughout the Doctor Who series, most recently as where Clara Oswald and Danny Pink …

Review: “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin

Three Body Problem

The details The story of the search for and eventually communication with alien life takes place in three primary settings–flashbacks over the course of the later 20th century while China races to communicate with alien life, present day where nanomaterial research Wang Miao discovers one day that he’s the only one who can see a …

Review: Kidneythieves’ “The Mend”

kidneythieves' The Mend

The details: In January of this year, nearly 1,600 fans helped fund everyone’s favorite industrial rock duo Kidneythieves’ Kickstarter campaign to bring “The Mend” to the public, resulting in over $75k. This is the second full album they’ve released independently and the first the band has crowdsourced. (Free previously crowdsourced a couple solo albums.) The …