Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian reading at City Lights
Casey McKinney07.21.09
Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian at City Lights, SF
Music: Serengeti
Ben Bush07.19.09
Novelty rap song or brilliant character portrait? "Dennehy" is the single from Chicago rapper Serengeti’s album of the same name. The…
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Mark Gluth07.19.09
Quebecois maestro Spencer Krug of the indie avatars Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes also heads up the narrative minded (and now pretty much band-like) unit Sunset Rubdown, which has just released its fourth album, Dragonslayer. Mark Gluth, keeper of the blog Joyful Thing and author of the upcoming book The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis from Akashic Books’ Little House on The Bowery series, reviews.
Herr Bud
Adam Underhill07.18.09
Bud Selig: a man often vilified among the ranks of baseball fans and sports writers alike, a man whose judgement and quiddities often flew in the face of baseball purists, a man who made many changes to the game to keep it up with the times, for better or for worse, but usually for better. Although he will probably be best known as the commish who reigned during the ugly times of steroid scandals, Selig’s positive contributions to the game must be (reluctantly) acknowledged, as Adam Underhill does here.
Zak Smith Super(porn)star
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley07.17.09
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley went to a ZaK Smith reading the other night and came back with the dirt
Understanding Comics
Ben Bush07.13.09
There has been a lot of hand-wringing among critics that high-quality journalism will be lost as news makes it’s transition onto the internet but…
Book: LIFE AS WE SHOW IT: edited by Brian Pera and Masha Tupitsyn
Michael Louie07.09.09
Lots of people write about film. In fact, one of the easiest things to do might be to write about some movie you just watched, your critique, your…
The Beaches of Agnes (2008): a documentary by/of Agnes Varda
Nancy Keefe Rhodes07.08.09
Agnes Varda has been making films since the inception of the French New Wave, a movement that ushered in the varied likes of Jean Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and the hard boiled cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville. In Les Plages d’Agnès (or The Beaches of Agnès) (2008), Varda makes protean shifts with ease, from philosophical reverie to revealing insights into her relationships both to film and her main squeeze, Jacques Demy, a longtime lover and muse. Nancy Keefe Rhodes reviews.
Summer of Exits continues…
Michael Louie07.07.09
The march of death goes on and on and on now with Robert McNamara passing at age 93. McNamara was the defense secretary during John F. Kennedy…
Book: Infinite Summer
Ben Bush07.06.09
Before leaving for a year abroad in South Korea, I used a razor blade to cut my copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest into four sections:…
