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Reminiscence bump is a real thing, and relates to the way one sees the landscape of their life as they get older. Oddly enough, you remember your youth more vividly than later periods.
If you believe we are somehow still living in the same US that conducted elections in November 2024, you are living in a dream. That America is gone. The one we are in now is not run by someone acting like a dictator—or, as Rachel Maddow claimed, “too incompetent” to be a dictator—but is, without […]
On November 28, 2024, Netflix dropped a TV show whose creators appear to own something like a crystal ball. Watch and see for yourself. Though the series, called The Madness, began pre-production in early 2023, it managed to see with eerie accuracy where the United States would be after the reelection of Donald Trump on Nov […]
[While we are deathly allergic to out-of-town hot takes on Portland’s current troubles—special “hello” to Nicholas Kristof and his weirdly obsessive pals at the New York Times—this piece published by our sister paper, The Stranger, hits the nail on the head and is definitely worth your time.—eds] The story has been this: Portland’s downtown is […]
Vesper is a superb post-apocalyptic film set in a world that is still technologically advanced but has reverted to a society and economy that resembles Europe’s Dark Ages. Its story is centered on a girl, Vesper (Raffiella Chapman), whose father, Darius (Richard Brake), is dying, and whose uncle, Jonas (Eddie Marsan), is just evil. One […]
End of the Road, starring Queen Latifah (Brenda) and Ludacris (Chris), has received a lot of bad reviews. But we can place most of the blame for this negative response not on the movie itself, but on Netflix’s misclassification of it. End of the Road is not a thriller but a horror film. If this […]
Sly in Harlem is no longer stuck in the basement… Summer of Soul Some footage is found in a basement. This footage contains a long forgotten event: the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. It featured a banging amount of black and brown talent. Nina Simone (the storm), Sly and the Family Stone (the radical racial […]
According to ordinary America, Seattle is permitted to have a top BBQ joint. But it cannot be one of the top BBQ cities in the US. Why? Charles Mudede [The following was originally published by our sister-wife at The Stranger in Seattle. Follow them for all the news happening up north!—eds.] At the end of […]
Sly in Harlem is no longer stuck in the basement… Summer of Soul [If you’re a movie fan who’s always wanted to attend the Sundance Film Festival, but couldn’t make the trip, you’re in luck! Due to the pandemic, Sundance is streaming online and you can get tickets for most of the films here. Here’s […]
Lots of work from lots of different kinds of people put these two in office. DREW ANGERER / GETTY THEY’VE CALLED IT. FINALLY. NBC, ABC, AP, NYT, every fucking media acronym you can think of now projects Joe Biden to win the Keystone State and therefore the presidential election of 2020. After five days of […]
Jonathan Olley I will begin by making it clear that I found The Rise of Skywalker, the last film in the Skywalker saga, boring. And it was not even a long movie, and I’m a fan of the director’s (J.J. Abrams) work (particularly Mission: Impossible III—the best in that franchise), and many of the visual […]
The actuality of his voluntary presence at the hearings is pretty low. But damn, that audience of many millions watching the impeachment hearings is such an enticing carrot. Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images There is no mystery here. The ratings for the impeachment are impressive. Nearly 14 million people tuned into the first day of the hearings. […]
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