IFB Presents: 7 Classic Springsteen Stories That Are Well Worth Mass Retelling

Years ago, when I was dedicating a lot more of my free time to writing music essays, I remember readily avoiding any head-on Springsteen think pieces, the reason being I was intimidated. I mean, I’d bounce around the fringes, sure, … Read MoreRead More

David Fincher on Passion (1999)

“If you have a fucking clue and a passion, people will get out of your way because people want someone to follow.”

IFB Presents: The Top 20 Recurring Characters from AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’

With the exception of HBO’s The Wire, Breaking Bad may very well boast the greatest ensemble cast in the history of television. A great deal of the credit can be attributed to a dozen or more supporting players who’ve cropped … Read MoreRead More

Jack Kerouac on Self-Loathing (1962)

“The rucksack sits hopefully in a strewn mess of bottles all empty, empty poorboys of white port, butts, junk, horror … ‘One fast move or I’m gone,’ I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness … Read More

Galleria: Rising Waters: Photos of Hurricane Sandy @ Governor’s Island

It’s a dicey proposition, sponsoring an exhibition that documents any type of natural disaster, especially a recent one. Perhaps more so than anything else, curators need to maintain a vital balance between honor and integrity, avoiding the constant pitfalls of … Read More

This Is Harvard, MIT

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Neil Young on Fulfillment (2012)

“It’s cool to go places where working people are happy.”

Fete Paradiso

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Film Capsule: You’re Next

OK, so there’s this house, see, and it’s like waaaaay out in the wilderness, right? I mean like sooooo far out that you can’t even get, like, cell phone service or internet access, y’dig? And so, then there’s, like, this … Read MoreRead More

Film Capsule: Our Nixon

Poor poor Bob Haldeman, loyal as a boyscout right down to the flat-top. He squandered what little credibility still remained following the Watergate hearings by heralding the very man who forced him up the river. Of the three cabinet members … Read MoreRead More