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I am proud to present an unusual take on Beyonce’s “Formation” video: an academic close-reading of the video by independent scholar and guest blogger Byron King: “What happened at the New Wil’ins?”: Cultural and...
Last summer I saw “Hamilton” in previews just as the show moved to Broadway. I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed stepping out of the multi-racial city of New York and into...
Today I wrote about this past weekend’s BodyHacking Con over at Last Night In Austin. Update: You can also view my experience on Storify. Given I was wearing a fracture boot during the event,...
I don’t know about you, but it’s less than a month until “the monster that ate March” otherwise known as South by Southwest. That’s when the whole world comes to Austin and everything happens....
Among the do-good commercials in Super Bowl 50 this past weekend, I was most put out at the one featuring British actress Helen Mirren telling people not to drink and drive. I wasn’t peeved...
True confession time: I read a lot of Jane Austen in graduate school. This means having not only read Austen’s first-written, last-published horror-ish novel Northanger Abbey, but also The Mysteries of Udolpho,...
Earlier this evening a friend came over to the house, and asked in passing if I was still missing David Bowie. Of course I said yes. We live in a world where the endless...
The recent passing of conservative writer and humorist Florence King has gotten a lot of press, and I can only find it fittingly ironic that King has passed while the move “Carol” is still...
Was surprised to find that the Keanu Reeves Russian Wikipedia page features one of my pictures (from Fantastic Fest.) It’s a different picture than the one that the English -language Wikipedia uses of him.
