Sun, Jul 15 2018

The self-proclaimed 'Dean of American Rock Critics,' Robert Christgau was one of the pioneers of music criticism as we know it. He was the music editor at the Village Voice for almost four decades where he created the trusted annual Pazz & Jop…

I had one thing going for me as I slunk into the Watergate scandal. It came off a tip I had received a month or two earlier but had ignored. A friend from the New York publishing world told me that a freelance writer named Andrew St. George, who…

A Life at Stake – Free – Directed by Paul Guilfoyle, this American noir film stars Angela Lansbury and Keith Andes. (1954) Beat the Devil – Free – Directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, the film is…

Newsflash: Denny Tedesco has time to spend with his family. The director of riveting music documentary The Wrecking Crew still can't believe it himself. The film he began working on three years before the birth of his 16-year-old daughter was…

If the future is female, then the future has arrived. It's hard to explain why, but women have dominated the rock space in the last five years, breathing new life into an art form that was arguably dying. And in an age of grandiose hits ruled by…

Russia has nearly completed an alternative to the Domain Name System — the common “phone book” of the internet that translates numerical IP addresses to readable text like “Amazon.com” and…

Earlier this year, my friend Max gave me a knife from Japan as a gift. That evening, as I was lying in bed looking at Instagram, I scrolled passed an ad of what looked like exactly the same knife. I did a double take, got out of bed, retrieved the…

When Alek Minassian drove a van onto a Toronto sidewalk in April, killing 10 people, he joined a growing list of young male mass murderers. He also left a trail of internet posts suggesting his motivation had to do with his status as an…

Even now, it is said, people still send letters to Sherlock Holmes, asking for the great detective's help in solving a crime or righting an injustice. In the past, some of these requests would be addressed to his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, who…