Film Capsule: Swerve

There are two primary rules when it comes to making a suspense thriller centered around a suitcase full of money: 1) include a handful of twists that the audience won’t see coming, and 2) for Christ’s sake, please maintain a … Read MoreRead More

Moving On: The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet

Meghan and I ate dinner at my apartment on that evening – bowtie pasta with Italian bread, beer and coolers on the side. I had moved back into the same one bedroom I’d been living in the previous offseason, accommodations … Read More

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is what New York City’s Penn Station looked like at 3 o’clock this morning. Travel late, if you must travel at all.

Film Capsule: The Punk Singer

Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna would rather not be known for many of the primary reasons we all know her. Those reasons – almost all of which have been played up, then played out, by the media – include: originally coining … Read MoreRead More

Galleria: Vietnam: The Real War @ Steven Kasher Gallery

When it comes to Vietnam there are so many different angles to consider – the jungles, the tracers, the ever-present war at home, Nixon and Ellsberg, the hippies and Kent State, and on and on and on and on. Perhaps … Read More

David Chase’s Advice For Aspiring Screenwriters (2009)

“It’s full of cliches, really. First of all, you have to do it. You can’t talk about it, you actually have to just sit down and do it. And that’s very, very difficult. You have to do it, and you … Read More

Locked Groove (Lou Reed Is Dead)

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Film Capsule: Finding Vivian Maier

To know Vivian Maier was not to love her, or even understand her, according to a handful of acquaintances. For above all else, Vivian Maier valued her privacy. Maier spent the majority of her adult years living in close quarters, … Read MoreRead More

Mia Farrow on Losing (1999)

“There have been many losses in my life. I get it now. But I didn’t get it then, that life is about losing, and about doing it as gracefully as possible, and enjoying everything in between – having as many … Read More

Celebrating Two Full Years of Fearing Brooklyn

Well, here we are, exactly two years to the day since I decided to swing out on my own. Good times, a plethora of good times, indeed. And yet, I still feel like there’s so much more for me to … Read More