Mar 13, 2024 Best of Opus Music Rest in Peace, Michael Knott One of the most singular voices in indie/alternative Christian music leaves behind an unparalleled legacy.
Feb 17, 2024 Best of Opus Technology Bluesky Is Finally Open for Everyone. Here’s What You Should Know. The decentralized social network will feel very familiar to X/Twitter users. That’s both good and bad.
Jan 1, 2024 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2023: The Declining Winter, Depeche Mode, Everything But the Girl, Slowdive The year brought us beautifully pastoral post-rock, the triumphant return of some musical icons, synth-heavy shoegaze, and more.
Dec 22, 2023 Best of Opus TV My 2024 TV Outlook: Abbott Elementary, The Last Airbender, 3 Body Problem, The Rings of Power & More 19 television series that I’m looking forward to seeing in 2024.
Dec 11, 2023 Best of Opus TV 15 of My Favorite M*A*S*H Moments Highlighting just a little bit of what makes this show so special and memorable, even 40 years after its finale.
Nov 29, 2023 Best of Opus Web Development Building a Better Social Media Post with Semantic HTML I’m trying to push back against an ongoing trend in web development to over-complicate… well… everything.
Oct 28, 2023 Best of Opus Movies Nerdery The Official Movie Magazine for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Is a Blast of Trekkie Nostalgia Long before the internet, we relied on magazines like this for information about our favorite genre movies.
Sep 23, 2023 Best of Opus Music The Dark Ambient Sci-Fi Storytelling of Alistair Rennie’s Ruptured World The Scottish author interweaves ominous soundscapes with broadcasts and audio journals to create a disquieting cosmic horror narrative.
Aug 14, 2023 Best of Opus Movies Technology 36 of the Best Titles Currently Streaming on Kanopy And all you need to watch them is a library card.
Jun 8, 2023 Best of Opus Concerts Concert Review: The Cure and The Twilight Sad (June 6, 2023, Denver, CO) It took me more than three decades to finally see my favorite band of all time, but it was well worth the wait.
Jun 6, 2023 Best of Opus Music 30 Years After Its Release, Eating the Sea Remains a Darkwave Classic Three decades after its release, Soulwhirlingsomewhere’s debut album remains as haunting and affecting as ever.
Apr 7, 2023 Best of Opus Movies Nerdery How does the world work in the John Wick movies? Do politics, religion, and the insurance industry still matter in a world ruled by the High Table and its killers?
Mar 14, 2023 Best of Opus Comics 32 of the Best Comics Currently Available on Hoopla And all you need to read them is a valid library card.
Feb 21, 2023 Best of Opus Pop Culture Technology 36 of the Best Movies Currently Streaming on Hoopla And all you need to watch them is a library card.
Jan 15, 2023 Best of Opus Literature Nerdery Into the Manifold: Exploring the Philosophical Sci-Fi of David Zindell’s Neverness Novels With striking imagery, heady metaphysics, and meandering plots, David Zindell presented a fascinating (and frustrating) vision of the distant future.
Jan 1, 2023 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs From 2022: Asunojokei, LN, Ronnie Martin, Steve Roach, Sally Shapiro & More This year brought blackgaze, somber dream-pop, sacred synth-pop, ambient masterworks, italo disco, and so much more.
Nov 6, 2022 Best of Opus Music Remembering Mimi Parker’s Beautiful, Blessed Voice Parker’s voice could be world-weary, heart-breaking, and transcendent all at once.
Sep 9, 2022 Best of Opus Pop Culture Your Favorite Pop Culture Has Just Gone “Woke.” Now What? Accusations of “wokeness” are fascinating, not because I agree with them, but because of the semblance of legitimacy that surrounds them.
Aug 15, 2022 Best of Opus Music Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me Confronts the Horror of Death (Review) After all, grief isn’t rational or given to nice, neat organization.
Aug 8, 2022 Best of Opus Literature The Expanse Is Epic Sci-Fi Storytelling at Its Very Best The series’ nine novels and related short stories spin an exciting, richly detailed, and thoughtful story that spans the solar system and beyond.