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By Gregory Crofton If you grew up in the Northeast in the 80s, and you haven’t heard about the HBO documentary “Class Action Park,” you should be sure to check it out. I lived in Connecticut and was six years…
By Gregory Crofton “Cow” is painful to watch for a number of reasons. The documentary is shot in the dry style of cinéma vérité or direct cinema, which means there’s no narrator or any interviews. It’s just the camera and…
By Gregory Crofton “La Liste: Everything or Nothing” is a sequel of sorts. Several years ago extreme athlete Jérémie Heitz decided to make a list of 15 peaks in the Swiss Alps. The goal was to climb each one and…
By Gregory Crofton You might have heard about the beginning of Country music and a family called the Carters. Being based in Nashville for the last 16 years, I certainly had. I took a drive to Hendersonville, about 20 minutes…
By Gregory Crofton Marc-André Leclerc climbs the tallest of mountains, some covered with snow and ice, with no ropes to keep him from falling. Climbers call this free soloing. One mistake and you’re dead, and it wouldn’t be a pretty…
By Gregory Crofton Buffalo is known for cold-weather football, lake-effect snow, chicken wings and now, at least in my mind, an artist named Spain Rodriguez. Rodriguez grew up in Buffalo, New York. His name at birth was Manuel, but he…
