Relish your final few Summer Fridays with a good read (or 14). Scroll down to explore our book picks for August. In Kira Jane Buxton's heartfelt debut, a domesticated crow ventures into the wild on a mission to save the world — yes, really.

When you're watching a movie you don't want anything that takes you out of the story. That goes double for horror movies. When you're inside them, the creeps and scares keep you on the edge of your seat. But horror movies that rely heavily on CGI…

Back in the early Nineties (1992, to be precise) the usually very diligent Rhino label came up with a three-CD set titled The Beat Generation, that covered that Fifties, early Sixties connection between mainly jazz and poetry. It was a serious…

EJ Moreno on iconic cult classics… What does it take for a film to be considered a “cult classic?” Many define it as a movie that is popular among a particular group, but for me, that isn't always the case. Some cult classics…

Welcome to Sidecar, Aquarium Drunkard's weekly dispatch of audio esoterica, interviews, mixtapes, and cultural ephemera. As always, we're presented by Gold Diggers boutique hotel, bar, and recording studios in East Hollywood, Calif. Want to support…

The release of this album is an event momentous enough to warrant repeating the preamble to the previously published review of Albert Ayler 's Quartets 1964: Spirits To Ghosts Revisited.... Before considering the music on this disc, something else…

Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageRandy Newman was an unexpected guest on Chance The Rapper's new album 'The Big Day,' in part because he heard the rapper 'was a good guy.'…

When Caitlin Cornell looked down her microscope, she saw large bright spots against a black background. They resembled miniatures suns, blazing against the backdrop of space. And when Cornell showed the spots to her supervisor, Sarah Keller, a…

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, grew 75 times brighter than usual over a two hour span — a flabbergasting cosmic event, since it's usually not very active and doesn't fluctuate much in brightness.

NIKUMARORO, KIRIBATI—It's a balmy tropical night south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, but inside the control room of the E/V Nautilus it's cold and dark and hushed. Banks of monitors provide the only light. Moving around is…