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Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue shows a mid-1970s America in decay.
We should all be allowed to seek joy in a flag, a PS4, or a feather.
How do you keep anger and punk drive going after decades have passed?
My cousin Bennington has unconventional tastes...
A lot of students get college rejections, but only Kashuv gets invited on Fox News to complain about it.
The Manhattan Bridge may ultimately become as congested as the Brooklyn Bridge.
Bad behavior in private at 16 has made him irredeemable in the eyes of progressives.
Smith is Harvey Weinstein’s worst crime.
Nick Drake was the spokesman for my teenage depression.
Late Night is a movie that's all platitudes with no pulse. D-
The U.S. women's national soccer team deserves pay raises immediately.
Jo Brand ups the ante in the rage against Brexiteers.
The differences are complexly interwoven with the similarities.
A look at A Memory Called Empire, first novel of sci fi writer Arkady Martine.
Ideologues ask: who will build the roads?
Contemplating what it would take for me to vote for him.
Not every answer is on Amazon.
This injury never should’ve happened.
Pete Buttigieg skating on thin ice with progressives digging into his centrist past.
Sven-Erik Geddes' Planet Pimp, garage rock ubiquity, and the ouroboros of its influences and its relative success in the 1990's.
Paleocon Diary (#176)
The prison system abuses trans women of color.
Panic over someone explaining why she's left Islam.
There are some odd omissions in Hamish McKenzie’s recent book.
Brief documentary featuring the legendary gossip columnist.
From the archives of The Dick Cavett Show.
New documentary about the unknown man who stood before tanks in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago this week.
Extraordinary new album by the Serbian sound artist.
Terrence Malick's new WWII epic has been bought by Fox Searchlight, so expect a vigorous Oscar campaign.
From the album Zero Player Game, available now on Ehse Records.
The latest in a five year string of excellent film and cultural criticism from Renegade Cut.
The new film by Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria).
An old solo demo of a song that ended up on Girlpool's latest album What Chaos is Imaginary?
A soap commercial directed by Ingmar Bergman featuring Andersson's first on screen appearance.
A new album by Chad Beattie out now on Sara Laughs Records.
Oh my stars!