In 1950, Woody Guthrie moved into an apartment at Beach Haven, a cluster of sixteen residential buildings in Gravesend, Brooklyn, just a few minutes from the creaky boardwalk and frankfurter stands at Coney Island Beach. The complex was owned and Read More …
I dislike the term “experimental film.” All films are experimental; no filmmaker really knows how a film is going to turn out. Movies that don’t have narratives shouldn’t be pigeonholed as “experimental”—i.e., works of science that merely study images and Read More …
There was a moment this spring when “Daytona,” the latest album by the Virginia rapper Pusha T, began to make me feel anxious. Not because of the music itself, which is everything I’ve come to expect and admire from the Read More …
Last month, the Italian sportswear brand Fila staged its very first runway show for Milan Fashion Week. Antonino Ingrasciotta and Joseph Graesel, the brand’s creative directors, delivered a very safe collection. There were hints of Fila’s nineteen-seventies tennis heritage—polos with Read More …
I swear I don’t mean this as a cry for help, but, in the days leading up to the airing, on Netflix, of “My Furry Valentine,” the Valentine’s Day special of “Big Mouth,” the great animated comedy about a group Read More …
Recently, the actress Molly Ringwald tweeted that “Eighth Grade” is “the best movie about adolescence I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe ever”—words that carry some weight, coming from a performer who made her name in John Hughes’s iconic teen Read More …
I’m walking briskly up the street that I grew up on. This is somewhere in suburban central Connecticut. My house is at the top of the hill, though, of course, it isn’t my house anymore, and hasn’t been for decades. Read More …
The concept of the new podcast “Everything Is Alive”—interviews with inanimate objects—annoyed me when I first heard it, just as well-intentioned elementary-school creative-writing assignments did. (“Imagine a day in the life of a pencil!”) Knowing nothing of its creator and Read More …
Click:wholesale Chlorine tablet The actress Lindsay Lohan began her movie career by starring, as a child in the late nineties, in the hit Disney movie “The Parent Trap.” Later, as a teen, she appeared in the clever comedy “Mean Girls” Read More …
Earlier this week, the Recording Industry Association of America—the trade organization that periodically bestows sales certifications—updated its calculations, which resulted in a reshuffling of the top-selling album of all time: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was unseated, once again, by “The Eagles: Read More …