Articles by Noah Ciubotaru
Lana Del Rey Is Lost in Thought on the Radiant 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd'
PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2023
A shift occured about halfway through Lana Del Rey's 2017 album Lust for Life, the turning point marked by a song called "Coachella – Woods...
Weyes Blood Reached for Something True in Vancouver
Commodore Ballroom, March 21
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2023
If Natalie Mering's lyrics were printed in a book, it'd be the kind publishers and critics would extol as "essential reading," a timely tre...
Toronto's poolblood Wrestles with Tenderness on the Sparkling 'mole'
PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2023
At a 2021 virtual showcase hosted by Toronto's Long Winter festival, poolblood's Maryam Said contributed a video of themselves playing an o...
'The White Lotus' Season 2 Can't Rework Its Winning Formula
Created by Mike White
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2022
The first season of HBO's The White Lotus — created, written and directed by Mike White — repeatedly circled around the theme of animalisti...
WILLOW Breaks Through on 'COPINGMECHANISM'
PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2022
Around the outset of summer 2021, articles declaring a pop-punk revival started to proliferate, hypothesizing its causes and naming its amb...
Florence + the Machine Offered Vancouver an Otherwordly Escape
Rogers Arena, October 4
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
Florence Welch ran off stage to make physical contact with the crowd three times during her headlining performance at Vancouver's Rogers Ar...
'Los Espookys' Season 2 Perfects Its Incomparable Style of Comedy
Created by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega and Fred Armisen
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2022
For a series about four friends' informal service that devises surreal scenarios to resolve clients' predicaments, Los Espookys dedicates a...
'Hacks' Season 2 Uses Humour to Make Sense of Messy Relationships
Created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky
PUBLISHED May 11, 2022
Not much changes in Vegas. Clocks are notoriously absent from casino walls, creating a container within which patrons are suspended outside...