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Words from a native son

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James Baldwin and his books have enjoyed varying degrees of attention and praise since the late literary icon burst onto the scene in 1953,...

Here’s mud in your eye

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He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail — what girl wouldn’t...

So you want to bring peace to the Middle East?

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Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of...

‘The Departed’ beer dinner

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The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies — some revered, some...

Team Jarmusch

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It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...

Through a sparkling glass

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Children’s movies are fascinating triumphs of simplicity and clarity. Often these movies render complex issues so succinctly that they become masterworks full of sophisticated...

BIFF: Drop acid, play baseball, make history

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In 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a no-hitter. Years later, he would claim that during the game, he was tripping on LSD...

We all go a little mad sometimes

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Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) is precisely the type of writer you’d expect to meet if you’d read one of her stories: Distant, acerbic and...

No longer man’s best friend

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White God is a coat of many colors. It is an allegory, a horror movie, a science fiction tale and a satire, placing dogs in the role of oppressed humans to address animalistic aggressions. In every society there is a desire to control. There is also a resistance to ...

‘Demolition’ takes a sledgehammer to grief

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Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed. That line of thinking...

The world’s bigger than you think

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There comes a moment, nearly three-quarters through the abysmally dull and bizarre Deadhead Miles — starring Alan Arkin as a long-haul truck driver —...

Think about what you’re trying to do to me

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Let’s go back, let’s go back; let’s go way on, way back when, back when we use to swipe our favorite alternative band’s cassette...