As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael Behrens discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. He went on…
‘Look at Me: XXXTentacion’ is Raw, Edgy and Difficult to Not Watch
By Gregory Crofton I was listening to “Rocket Hour,” Elton John’s weekly podcast-radio show, when he told his audience that the new documentary about XXXTentacion was really good. No one knows pop music better than Elton, so I believed him.…
Captain Sum Ting Wong
Names confirmed by the NTSB! Ha. Despite this being tremendously successful prank on the news media, it should be acknowledged that Asiatic Flight 214 crash landed and several people onboard died while others were injured.
The Dark Side of Hollywood Icon Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis’s patented form of slapstick made him a 20th-century comedic icon. But former co-stars first interviewed by the directors behind Allen v. Farrow say he was a bully who sexually harassed—and in at least one case, sexually assaulted —women…
‘Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart,’ the Drummer from Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü was an American punk rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979. The band’s continual members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist/vocalist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart. They first gained notability as a hardcore punk band, and…
Listen to a Final Conversation with Peter Dunning of ‘Peter and the Farm’
Peter Dunning’s farm was a Vermont hill farm. A hundred and thirty-six acres of forest and orchards and wet spots and steep, rocky pasture, picked over by farmers for hundreds of years. Peter farmed here, mostly alone, for nearly forty…