I guess. Oh, proms. What is a prom, anyway? What is a prom in this culture or that culture or in that one. I know that for me, looking back on it, the concept was muddled; no one meaningfully explained it or gave a proper raison d’être for the event. I feel like the French […]
I’ve mixed feelings about this one, but it was bound to happen – and that’s the sunnier side of the street, feelings-about-it-wise, so good on ya, Miami, for carrying on and having a Basel season in 2020, after all. Oh yeah, not even that bitch COVID-19 could keep the Magic City from getting down with […]
He’s baaack. Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Sagdiyev, the (fictional) leading journalist from Kazakhstan’s State-run TV network and that nation’s now-fourth most famous man, has returned to the big screen after 14 years, a long time during which a lot has happened. For one, Borat was sacked from his […]
Y’ know, everyone who came to this American land came seeking freedom and better. The vote is a direct result of that hope. It is one thing to take the imported organic blueberries that you get all year long at the grocery store for granted, but the vote is quite another. Do not take the […]
I don’t know what to tell ya: It is hot in the Bay Area. For serious, I think I’ve lost count, but I’m gonna say this that we felt this week was our sixth heat wave in two months. Get me a fan. Hey you. Time to wake up.
Lunch before editing. Look here, it’s June 1, 2020. We know what needs to change – the entire world sees it. Here, there, everywhere. This system that discriminates, rapes and pillages, sickens, and shortchanges our brothers and sisters, you, me, it’s got to get an upgrade. Today. It doesn’t work. Hasn’t worked, except for those […]
It has been a little more than eight months since COVID-19 insinuated itself into our lives, upending our local and global routines, and forcing (most of) us to take a real good look at ourselves and the culture and the world, and really consider our place on our planet. It has been an extended come-to-Jesus […]
Dudes. I was last week years old, when I saw this performance of “Gambler,” from “The Virgin Tour,” by Madonna for the very first time. No. Joke. Like she does during “Nobody Knows Me,” from the “Re-Invention Tour,” this is some energetic shit. Madonna dominates her dance floor stage left; much like during the glorious […]
This week, Amazon Prime Video’s Welcome to the Blumhouse adds Evil Eye, directed by Tennesseean twin directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, to its anthological collective. Like Black Box, this is another impeccable production of supernatural proportion (albeit a much more focused one) from Team Blumhouse Television & Amazon Studios. I mean, it’s all right there […]
Selena was some kind of queen. Bidi. Bidi. Bom. Bom. That much I knew growing up in the ’90s down in Lima, and that much sunk in after word that the star had been shot dead at age 23 reached Peru. The date was March 31, 1995, so it wasn’t that along, but this was […]
King of Cups 