Grimes concert is a spiritual awakening


It’s Thursday night and the Shrine is packed full for a sold-out show. The audience is getting restless, waiting for someone to take to the stage. That someone is Canadian-born Claire Boucher, better know as synth-pop artist, Grimes. The April 21 performance featured female-fronted openers Tei Shi, a Brooklyn-based pop/R&B singer, and French group Christine […]

Kimmy Schmidt returns with familiar humor


If season one was more about Kimmy, played by Ellie Kemper, rediscovering the world, season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is more about Kimmy and the rest of the characters adapting to unfamiliar situations. This is especially true for Kimmy, who eventually winds up in the care of a therapist with a drinking problem, played […]