Sierra Hoyle Backgammon and Cribbage

Growing up at a time when most of her peers chose MySpace over mandolins, Sierra Hull emerged with her 2008 Rounder debut SECRETS as a shockingly talented and mature newgrass tour de force. With her fluidly innovative take on the mandolin, assured vocals and original material, as well as tasteful production and arrangement choices--particularly affecting for a genre known for its cheesy indulgences--Hull has crafted an album as era-defining as Alison Krauss' genre-expanding work in the late `80s...

The violence of civil war has been a fact of life in Colombia for so long that a generation has grown up there never knowing peace, and three members of a street gang-turned-paramilitary force are profiled in this documentary, shot during the space of a year in Le Sierra, a ghetto community in the Colombian city of Medellin. Bloque Metro is a band of armed youths backed by right-wing factions who are in violent opposition to Colombia's left-wing military force, the ELN. Bloque Metro is led by Edison...