INDIE SPOTLIGHT
has never held back when expressing his emotions, especially those that are mired in his own disappointment and discord. Yet with the tellingly-titled Alive in the Hot Zone, Lucas opts for a slight change of tack, one that speaks to the larger troubles that have plagued the planet — and the U.S. in particular — since the start of the pandemic and the renewed outcry over America’s prevailing problems with racism and the deepening divide that that has literally threatened to tear this nation apart at its seams. It’s been an especially tenuous time for Lucas himself; sequestered in Germany and feeling isolated and
