Austerlitz Is About The Holocaust and About Me
By Max Arambulo Jan 26, 2012 1:19 pmI finished reading Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald which is, partly, about how some memories remember you, i.e. the type of memories that sneak ...
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The purpose of an all-star game is basically the same regardless of the sport: to generate interest by putting the sport’s biggest stars all on one stage. However even though there are versions of the all-star game for each sport, some seem to do a better job of creating interest than others. Of the four major North American ...
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By Alex Jenkins
Jan 26, 2012 2:20 am
Before beginning this blog, full disclosure demands that I identify myself as one of the 99%. Not in the sense that, if I were an American I'd be in the bottom 99% in terms of my income. ...
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By avp
Jan 24, 2012 1:42 am
The 2008 Democratic primary was one of the more closely contested in recent memory. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic nominee stretched well into the summer, ...
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By Mike Radoslav
Jan 21, 2012 1:30 pm
Even though the death of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) yesterday were highly lauded, the attempts to control the Internet are far from over. The ...
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By Colin Ellis
Jan 25, 2012 12:11 am
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and the repulsive, feel-good movie of the year about racism, The Help, scored a mere four nods for Best Picture, Best Actress (Viola Davis), and two ...
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By Max Arambulo
Jan 23, 2012 3:31 pm
After Haywire, my friend Anthony told our acquiantance Kai: "That's Soderbergh's thing, he does these straight but semi-self-aware genre pieces." Kai to Anthony: "I guess he told everyone he was ...
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By Kenny
Jan 20, 2012 12:00 am
The 2010 film The Expendables paid tribute to the action film of the 80s and 90s and starred many action heroes from that era including Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Bruce Willis and ...
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I finished reading Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald which is, partly, about how some memories remember you, i.e. the type of memories that sneak ...
0 comments »Shit just got real! It was almost a year ago when this small collective started its Caged Wisdom series, and the reception was supportive, but ...
0 comments »I gained a bit of respect for Mo’Nique after her performance in Precious, a movie I had a lot of problems with, but nevertheless gave a pass to ...
0 comments »There hasn't really been a memorable rap feud since the early '00s, so it was with some delight/skepticism that I took in Common's latest single " ...
0 comments »Drake could only come from Canada. That certain thing that Sasha Frere-Jones calls a post- hiphop sensibility? Totally Canadian. There's almost-zero ...
0 comments »I grew up watching Jackie Chan. When I started watching Bruce Lee movies, I never understood what people liked about it. I found a video ...
0 comments »Joyce Carol Oates, in her On Boxing, writes about how the actual activity of boxing is exclusively masculine. It’s about how a man defines his ...
1 comments »A common topic that would pop up amongst my journalism class last year was will journalism survive? What’s the future of journalism? Or some ...
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