THE JUNGLE SESSIONS is the third album in a trilogy from sacred singer/guitarist Miten, following Temple at Midnight (2016) and Devotee (2019). These compassionate songs celebrate …
HANIA RANI IS A bright emerging artist whose piano-based compositions are emotional and energized, drawing on a diversity of genres including classical, jazz, ambient, and electron…
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM has a playbook for handling threats. When we are dysregulated, disconnected, or healing from trauma, our usual playbook becomes unreliable. We freeze and capitul…
WHAT’S THE SECRET OF LIFE? The simple, but not necessarily easy, action of showing up, says mindfulness teacher Shelly Tygielski in Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can C…
by Richard Firth-Godbehere reviewed by Emily Qureshi-Hurst
EMOTIONS ARE one of the most universally experienced aspects of being human. We have all felt the rippling burn of anger and the calm comforting love we have for a close friend. Of…
by Director Khyentse Norbu reviewed by Bilge Ebiri
In this gentle, playful drama, a
Nepalese entrepreneur looking to open a cool new coffee shop in
Kathmandu is plagued by mysterious
visions. Could they be the result of his cava…
Five years ago, adventurous moviegoers were enchanted with Turkish
director Ceyda Torun’s documentary
about Istanbul’s street cats, Kedi, a small indie hit on the festival circui…
If there’s an upside to the pandemic, it’s that it
inspired creative endeavors like They’re Calling Me
Home. Rhiannon Giddens, a native of North Carolina,
recorded the album in …
We Are is the powerful new
album from pianist/singer
Jon Batiste, his first full-length studio album since
Hollywood Africans in 2018. These 13 songs optimistically
celebra…
“Embodied” is a buzzword these days, flung around in
an attempt to describe the effort to live grounded inside
our physical selves. But what does it actually mean to be
embodied…
by Michelle Cassandra Johnson reviewed by A. Perkins
Synthesizing her work as a social justice
activist, anti-racism trainer, and yoga teacher,
Michelle Cassandra Johnson’s latest book explicitly sets out to empower readers to prio…
by Alejandro Mandes reviewed by Rochelle Bourgault
A book by a Mexican-American evangelical minister from
Minnesota (via Laredo), written for fellow “Jesus freaks”
intent on making new disciples, planting new churches,
and seein…