Thursday, April 25 2013
‘30 for 30: Elway to Marino’: Remembering NFL Draft Day 1983
The film shows that the men who are involved in this business, those sold or sold and those who sell or buy, all have more at stake than they might imagine on that one day.
Thursday, February 7 2013
The Pop Culture Death Trap Part 1: The Athlete as Hieroglyph
In a money- and youth-driven culture that seems to understand nearly all human activity as part of a contest, death, like poverty, has come to be associated, however imprecisely, with losing.
Friday, July 27 2012
Flash Points: Penn State’s Cover-Up and the Ethics of Rape Jokes
This week Flash Points looks at the Penn State cover-up and examines the way powerful people typically go to great lengths to cover their collective asses. We also examine rape culture and the ethics of rape jokes.
Wednesday, October 19 2011
Albert Ayler: Love Cry / The Last Album
Even when Albert Ayler was "selling out", his music was tough to swallow. This reissue twofer goes right to the heart of that paradox.
Friday, September 23 2011
The Bad News Statisticians: ‘Moneyball’
There’s an ugly and unromantic truth behind Bennett Miller’s baseball stats semi-comedy Moneyball that it acknowledges and then dances away from.
Friday, September 2 2011
It’s Yesterday Once More in ‘Little Girl Blue’
Little Girl Blue is a damning and penetrating account of tortured and tormented artist, Karen Carpenter, and could just be one of the most depressing books you’ll ever read.
Friday, July 15 2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster
All his life Morgan Forster lived in a world imprisoned by prejudice against homosexuals. He was 16 when Oscar Wilde was sent to prison, and he died the year after the Stonewall riots.
David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali: Planetary Unknown
These four guys have known each other for years, yet this is the first album to feature all of them in the same room. Calling it a "doozy" is just a playful, feeble understatement.
Monday, March 21 2011
Botticelli, Sandwiches Outside and Dreams of Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’
Boxed in by bandage-colored cubicle walls in downtown Manhattan, my thoughts drift to sweet days in Florence and Rome, and to lines in Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’.
Friday, November 12 2010
Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock
What the world really needs is a straight-up account of one of the most important rock groups of all time. Now we have it in the form of music scribe Andrew Earles.
