Author Archives: Bob Hill

If there is one thing worth despising about the average mainstream movie critic, it’s that he or she makes no worthwhile distinction between the terms review and recap. I mean, forget about the fact that spitting back an entire film … Read More … Read More

One need look no further than Pat Boone and Little Richard to understand just how long and hard the white establishment has been sticking it to black artists. I mean, way back in the days of Tin Pan Alley and … Read More … Read More

“This is a seminal moment for us. Who are we? We’re defined in this moment, in our reaction or our non-reaction to the genocide in Darfur. You said two-and-a-half million people were being driven from there, burning. Y’know, we’re seeing … Read More

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Sidiki Conde is a polio survivor. He is also an inspiration. Conde, who’s been paralyzed since the time he turned 14, transformed his lifelong tragedy into triumph, teaching two hands to do the work of every other limb. Over the … Read More … Read More

“One thing that perhaps helped me get over being a misfit – a school misfit – was that I became interested in photography at about the same time; around 12 or 13. Now I think that if you get involved … Read More

 The opening line of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska – both the album and the song – declares: “I saw her standin’ on her front lawn/Just a twirlin’ her baton/Me and her went for a ride, sir/And 10 innocent people died.” … Read More … Read More

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One can only imagine what type of lather Jimmy Franco might be working himself into right this moment, what with the prospect of a good Franco versus bad Franco Franco weekend at the theater. So yin. So yang. So Franco. … Read More … Read More

It was more than 30 years ago when now-accomplished photogs Brian Rose and Edward Fausty began to document the Lower East. This was a time when New York City still retained its sense of grit; when Greenwich Village was still … Read More