Super-heroines, stains and all
My favorite comic book characters have invariably always been the ladies. Maybe because there were less of them when I was growing up. Maybe because their costumes were more fabulous than those of their male counterparts. Probably because, when written with care, the super-heroines always seemed more intuitive, more vulnerable… just more real than most … Continue reading
My own private food desert
Let me be clear that the title of this article is meant to be an exaggeration — by car, I live a very comfortable two or three minutes from a well-stocked grocery store with plenty of produce and a somewhat self-involved organic food section. (I’m down with organic foods, but this place is set up … Continue reading
February 27-March 2, 2012
The Beach Boys’ Smile is one of the great lost masterpieces of rock and roll, and it haunts the band’s catalog, with songs from the project turning up on most of their later albums. Mike Vincent gives you a map to assembling your own Smile, as well as his take on the later releases of the original tapes and Brian Wilson’s solo re-recordings. Read “Cracked”
Kevin Mattison wraps up The Great Oscar Race with a look at the winners, and the winners that should have been. Read “Three strides back and kind of OK with it”
Yael Borofsky takes on one of hockey’s most pressing ontological questions: How in the world have the Detroit Red Wings been so good for so long? Read “Hockey philosophy: Why are the Red Wings so good?”
There are favorite movies, and then there are favorite movies that we don’t want anyone to know about. Ana Holguin lets you in on her “Top 5 movies to watch when no one’s watching”
The streaming content deal between Netflix and Starz expired today, and in case you haven’t noticed already, there’s probably a handful of stuff that’s no longer in your queue. Sarah Pavis lists “The top 10 movies I’ll miss most now that the Starz deal has expired”
Kelly Hannon reads Tana French’s Faithful Place, a compelling murder mystery about lost love and the dark places that only family can take you. Read “Where the body is buried”
Jill Kolongowski would love to be able to tell you how to eat well when you’re attending a conference, but she’s never quite figured it out. She can, however, detail her experience, so at least you know what to avoid. Read “How not to eat at AWP 2012”
Cracked
A few weeks ago I was in my car, on my morning commute: 45 minutes of darkness. Somewhere between home and Interlochen I asked myself a question: Who is the American Syd Barrett? For those reading this who don’t know Syd I will try and summarize, briefly. Founder and early leader of Pink Floyd, went … Continue reading
Three strides back and kind of OK with it
Have I mentioned that there are too many Best Picture nominees? Has that come up before? I digress. Once again find myself a few movies shy of the full category. And although I did manage to sneak The Help in at the buzzer – too late for an article – I was unable to get … Continue reading
Hockey philosophy: Why are the Red Wings so good?
“Why are the Red Wings so good?” I’m going to see the Flyers play the Red Wings in Philly next week and this question is poking at me. It’s been just a couple weeks since the Wings unseated the 1975-76 Philadelphia Flyers for longest home win streak, so the game feels like it has some … Continue reading
