At Large Magazine • 11th September 2019

Nate Mercereau

It isn’t unfair to describe Nate Mercereau as a multi-instrumentalist virtuoso, songwriter and producer— he is, it just seems as if it isn’t enough. Nate’s debut album, Joy Techniques uses often forgotten guitar synthesizers circa 1970s and 80s to create a raucous jazz sound that is uniquely his and he does it all sans keys.

At Large Magazine • 12th July 2019

Blick Bassy

Describing Blick Bassy enters into uncomfortable territory for me and I have to ask myself why it even matters where an artist is from and how that informs his art when his voice and music transcends cultures and genres? It just does. I can’t ignore the fact that he looks like a warrior prince with dark skin and a face that almost looks chiseled by a sculptor rather than created by two humans.

At Large Magazine • 12th July 2019

DELANILA

Hard to believe that DELANILA ever gets bored. Her latest album, Overloaded, is set to drop in October and is a multi-instrumental delicious mix of genre wrinkling, time signature bending, origami-like music that sounds layered and deceptively simple—like an expertly folded piece of paper albeit one that is not at all smooth.

At Large Magazine • 21st May 2019

The Russian Five

The Russian Five — Review and Interview with Filmmaker Joshua Riehl

Just in time for the 2019 NHL playoffs, The Russian Five gives hockey fans what has to be the best nonhockey hockey film ever. For sports doc nuts, it’s paydirt. If hockey isn’t your sport and sports films aren’t your thing, and you just like a crazy good on the edge of your seat, Cold War spy thriller with restrained animation (to avoid staged cheesy reenactments) you are so in luck...

At Large Magazine • 15th May 2019

Dirty Bomb

— A Little Known Holocaust Story and Interview with Actor Ido Samuel Dirty Bomb — A Little Known Holocaust Story and Interview with Actor Ido Samuel

Ido Samuel is not the first actor to radically change his body for a part but he is one who bore the responsibility of a story so much bigger than himself that he didn’t feel like he had a choice. Written and directed by Valerie McCaffrey, Dirty Bomb is a short film being made into a feature about a group of Jewish scientists...

Honeysuckle Magazine • 1st November 2018

WHEN PLAYDATES GO TO POT honeysucklemag

Why I voted to legalize weed in Washington State even though I never smoked pot.

At Large Magazine • 15th May 2019

State of the Union

– An Interview with Nick Hornby State of the Union – An Interview with Nick Hornby

For the record, I’m a closet binge watcher but I suggest exercising some self-control and do as the director, Steven Frears (The Queen, A Very English Scandal) intended and consume State of the Union in two-episode doses. I can binge watch with embarrassing tenacity and beg of you to slow down!

At Large Magazine • 10th April 2019

Brainiac

Tim Taylor died in a horrible accident in 1997 ending the music of Brainiac but not their story. Their music, alien from what people had heard before, so aurally disruptive that you still have to ask, “what is that? Do I like it? Why do I want more?” Taylor classically trained as a cellist from the age of four so Stravinsky echos in my mind...

At Large Magazine • 5th April 2019

Screwball

Once upon a time, the land of Miami Florida was the Whoville of the geriatric set. The weather was perfect or nearly so for the residents of this sunny land. Every year, giant winds and inconvenient amounts of rain would come and the grandmas and grandpas would flee north and visit their children in other villes only to come skittering back the moment the clouds cleared...

At Large Magazine • 18th February 2019

Ella Vos

Ella Vos looked familiar to me and it nearly drove me crazy. All I believed I knew about the singer-songwriter before I spoke with her last month was that she survived cancer and her latest music video, Ocean made me want to talk to her. Watch and Wait her recent EP dropped January 25 just ahead of her North American Tour. Her music gets to me and passes the Gen-Z test (I consulted my 19-year-old expert)...

At Large Magazine • 21st March 2019

DIAMONDS & DYNAMITE

If you don’t know who Donna Grantis is, you might know her music and if you don’t know her music, you just might know the names of some of the people who she’s played guitar with like Prince (yeah, that one) or Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. On stage, with long black hair, leather pants (sometimes tight, sometimes super-wide bellbottoms or in a flowy dress and heels) and chiseled features, Donna Grantis looks legit guitar player...

At Large Magazine • 23rd March 2019

Daniel Webber Is all about The Dirt

Australian, Daniel Webber, sports one of those faces that must be handy to have as an actor. From Lee Harvey Oswald to his latest role as Vince Neil, in the film, The Dirt, the millennial actor is convincing as the Gen-X, headbanging, coke snorting, hard rocking, hotel-destroying lead singer of Mötley Crüe. Based on the band’s autobiography, the film follows the band’s rise to fame and what money can and can’t do for people...

At Large Magazine • 15th December 2018

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. has Hollywood buzzing with his latest film, Bumblebee

The 22-year-old has Hollywood buzzing with his latest film, Bumblebee

Photography by Erik Rasmussen

Written by Jennifer Parker

Styled by Jason Rembert




Imagine being 22-years-old and bookending the year with two major films of completely different genres all while looking good in everything you wear and oh by the way being delightful to talk to?

At Large Magazine • 14th December 2018

Edie Brickell, Album release show, written by Jennifer Parker

Nothing about NYC on a chilly fall evening screams, “Go to a concert at a venue with no seats.” When it rains in the city, the streets become mini lakes, the storm drains oh after about 15 minutes of rain can’t keep up. The leaves having blown off the trees are now clogging the drains so that the average person is up to her ankles in a stew of discarded cigarette butts, dog poo and bits of trash.

At Large Magazine • 3rd December 2018

International Disability Awareness Day, film reviews by Jennifer Parker

From the documentary The Rebound

In the spirit of International Disability Awareness Day (December 3, 2018), there are two documentaries that you should pay attention to. I could tell you to watch them because they both are about people with disabilities, but I’d rather discuss what makes them documentaries worth being made in the year of content overload...

At Large Magazine • 28th November 2018

The Truth About Killer Robots

“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

Maxim Pozdorovkin’s high concept documentary, The Truth about Killer Robots should stop you for a second, make you drop the little device in your hand (after you’re done reading this article, ha) and see if you can still relate to people without a robot running interference. How does the word “truth” make you feel? Does it challenge you? Does it mock contemporary media?

At Large Magazine • 1st March 2019

Shaunette Renee Wilson

Photography by Erik Rasmussen

Written by Jennifer Parker

Styled by Jason Rembert

Makeup by Nina Soriano

Last year, Shaunette Renée Wilson and her Yale classmate, Sean Patrick Higgins, wanted to do something creative. They came up with the idea for the short film, White Flags, about consent and what it means to be a part of today’s dating culture. They chose a theme that’s very much in the zeitgeist and palpable, but the film takes a more far more intimate perspective...

Across the Margin • 7th January 2019

"The Last Race" by Jennifer Parker — Across The Margin

An in-depth look at Michael Dweck’s The Last Race, a documentary about a small-town stock car racetrack striving to hold onto an American racing tradition as the world around it is transformed by globalization and commercialization…

When I first saw the trailer for The Last Race, a few questions (forgive me) raced through my mind. WTF? Do I want to see a documentary about the last stock car race track on Long Island?