Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 9/13-9/18/2021.
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 8/30-9/5/2021.
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 5/30-6/5/21.
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 5/16-5/22/21. Music: This was kind of an unfocused listening week for the most part — I spent the early…
Some highlights of my pop culture diet for the week of 5/9-5/15/21. Music: I’ve been picking my way through the list of artists profiled in the recent New York Times…
I tracked Danny down at a company called Street Sense, Inc. …didn’t know his relationship to or with the company, just knew that he could be reached there…figured maybe it…
Scribbling down some highlights of my pop culture diet for the week of 5/2-5/8/21. Music: I spent a couple of days prepping for Friday’s FM to MTV podcast recording by…
I had my first broadband line installed in 1999, just in time to surf the wild mp3 frontier in the heady months before the law stepped in and started cutting…
In the 1996 film Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub play brothers who own a slowly failing Italian restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. It’s a premise ripe with comedy,…
Like a lot of sad, melodramatic kids, I spent large portions of my youth clinging to music as a lifeline. And almost as quickly as the stuff burrowed its way…
Context is a crucial — and, as far as I’m concerned, underappreciated — component of the way we experience art. There’s a long list of books, records, and films I…
During one evening of my willfully misspent youth, my parents sat me down for a screening of Cool Hand Luke, hoping to show me what happens to smart-assed malcontents who…