Across the Margin • 3rd November 2025

Fairyland : A Review

A look at Andrew Durham’s debut film, Fairyland, adapted from Alysia Abbott’s 2013 memoir, Fairyland : A Memoir of My Father…

by: Jennifer Parker

Sometimes it takes a film like Fairyland to remind us that we don’t need the internet to inform us that childhood isn’t always fair, that diseases don’t have names before they are part of the zeitgeist, and that parents are imperfect. We just need a little bit of movie magic to suspend the here and now in a dark theater and allow ourselves to be spel...

Across the Margin • 20th August 2024

The Dare & The Groove

In celebration of The Dare’s latest release, a danceable track with a hint of griminess that has the ability within it to tap into the cultural zeitgeist…

by: Jennifer Parker

On August 7, 2024, singer / songwriter / producer Harrison Patrick Smith, who musically goes with the moniker The Dare, revealed a new song, “You’re Invited,” alongside a video directed by Jake Lazovick (listen here and watch here). It’s a track that is emphatically danceable with a hint of griminess that has the ability...

• 29th April 2022

Album Review: Regards to the End

Wells’ captivating soundscapes have the ability to bring one deep within themselves, or even have the cathartic means to release one from the ruminations constantly running through their head.

Across the Margin • 1st November 2021

Film Review : Rachel Boynton's "Civil War"

A glimpse at Rachel Boynton’s latest documentary, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are), a provocative film that delves into the divide between Americans’ views of the Civil War…

Across the Margin • 6th May 2021

Film Review: "United States VS. Reality Winner"

A glance at Sonia Kennebeck’s captivating new documentary, which premiered at SXSW, that examines the case against Reality Winner, the bold, low-level document leaker who incensed the overreaching wrath of the U.S. Government…

Across the Margin • 20th April 2021

Introducing: "Disintegration Loops"

An introduction to Disintegration Loops, a documentary about avant-garde composer William Basinki, through and interview with its director, David Wexler, and producer, Brad Coleman…

David Wexler‘s new documentary The Disintegration Loops, a 45-minute film constructed via Zoom, draws haunting parallels between New York-based avant-garde composer William Basinki’s 9/11-inspired art and the pandemic lockdown in New York City.

Across the Margin • 3rd March 2021

Introducing: Frampton Forgets The Words

An introduction to Peter Frampton’s forthcoming instrumental album comprised of all covers entitled Frampton Forgets The Words…

Guitar luminary Peter Frampton has a new album coming out on April 23rd entitled Frampton Forgets The Words, one that features all covers and no lyrics. It is uniquely captivating in that it grabs your attention immediately as although absent of words, the lyrics are somehow present in the music, almost as if the music sings the words.

Across the Margin • 6th January 2020

Introducing: Roman Lewis

Across The Margin focuses its spotlight on a young, up and coming singer-songwriter from the United Kingdom, Roman Lewis…

There’s something different about UK singer, songwriter and guitarist Roman Lewis that’s hard to articulate. It isn’t his mop of curly but not too curly, medium long brown hair. Nor is it his effortless style that belies his eighteen years. He’s a tall, fair skinned, fluent in French speaking Brit with manners that would make any parent proud.

Across the Margin • 2nd December 2019

First Look : American Jihadi

An in-depth look at the recently released podcast series American Jihadi, about an all-American kid from the Bible Belt who went on to become the head of the terrorist organization Al Shabaab…

Omar Hammami is infamously remembered as the “terrorist next door.” You know, the all American kid from the Bible Belt who was raised as a Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager, radicalized, upped and moved to Somalia, and became the head of the terrorist organization Al Shabaab.

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 • 11th September 2019

Mwenso and the Shakes

Mwenso and the Shakes — Interview with Band Leader and Vocalist, Michael Mwenso

Oh, the dog days of summer, you know, those hot August afternoons where the air in NYC has texture—back sweat, front sweat, and everything in-between sweat.

At Large Magazine • 21st August 2019

Countdown to Lollapalooza 2019

You have less than ten thousand minutes until Lollapalooza 2019 — and it’s summer. Take advantage of these long days! If you haven’t noticed, we are in an explosively creative moment in music and if you can’t get yourself to Lollapalooza in Chicago next weekend then you must not deprive yourself of the music that will be hitting the stages in Grant Park and stream away. Who knows, maybe you’ll love one enough to buy it on vinyl?

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...

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 • 15th April 2019

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

Pilgrim Media Group and Lance Bass Productions’ YouTube Original Documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

What’s remarkable about the YouTube Original Documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is that deceased, convicted criminal Lou Pearlman participated in making the film. Not the ghost of Lou Pearlman, but Pearlman himself...

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 • 4th April 2019

SXSW 2019 Music Festival

Last month 1,964 musicians played at South by Southwest 2019 and I think I’ve recovered. SXSW is my own version of March Madness and I think next time I’ll take a lesson from the college basketball fans and make a bracket. SX is probably the worst best place for the commitment-phobic and the decision adverse...

At Large Magazine • 23rd March 2019

Emily Wells

EMILY WELLS’ NEW ALBUM

THIS WORLD IS TOO ____ FOR YOU

OUT NOW ON THESIS & INSTINCT

Every time I listen to any of Wells’ music, I hear something new. There’s a purpose and deceptive simplicity to each note, each combination of sounds. It reminds me of something only found in nature. There’s a liquid quality to her compositions. More choreographed than composed the notes sound like they’re dancing and swirling around the instruments. Wells is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, singe

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 • 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...

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)...

Fjords Volume 4 • 11th February 2019

Jennifer Parker Fjords Volume 4, Issue 3 2018

It started out innocently enough. I mean, I’ve been out of the scene for a long time being that I’ve been married for 18 years. We met through a mutual acquaintance. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. I guess these situations are always a bit awkward. Things were fine, great even. Sure, we had the occasional miscommunication. The relationship was new so at least I didn’t care...

Across the Margin • 7th February 2019

"Generation Wealth" by Jennifer Parker — Across The Margin

A look at the recently released documentary Generation Wealth, a film that examines, in jaw-dropping fashion, materialism, celebrity culture, and social status while reflecting on the modern desire to be wealthy at any cost…

“Capital like any other resource in excess will cause utter social and economic havoc.” — Florian Homm

Turns out that before most great societies crumble, they spend a shit ton of money. It also turns out there is no amount of money that can save a decaying democracy.