Ghostbusters is a perfectly structured film. Desire lines are clear scene by scene. Act breaks are sharp and propulsive. Every payoff is set up early in the film, including Mr. Stay-Puft. The…
Empire equals militarism. In order to maintain an empire, a nation must make either threats of violence or violence to bear to bring outliers into the fold. Both forms of…
The rock star sang the gospel of carefree living — a message this country desperately needs to hear.
Written in Japanese, most (if not all) are likely by the the rather prolific manga artist Atsuko Shima—but she wasn’t the only artist that created the cartoons that featured popular…
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews…
Celebrating 30 Years Of ‘Fresh Air’: Remembering Horror Film Director Tobe Hooper Hooper, who died Saturday, wrote and directed the 1974 cult classic film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,which helped…
For many of these women, the reading experience begins from a place of seething rage. Take Sara Marcus’ initial impression of Jack Kerouac: “I remember putting On the Road down…
as late as the 1960s many people perceived computer programming as a natural career choice for savvy young women.
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future. Because of that, much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter’s…
A woman who died in 1998 was married to a man who was born a slave and fought in the civil war in the union army. {listen} here is her…