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By Gregory Crofton In 1972, a plane full of young rugby players jetted from Uruguay out across the Andes mountain range, their destiny a match in Chile. The atmosphere on the plane was one of raucous joy even after the…
By David W. Hall Wanna see feverish creativity paired with similarly hectic, unstable employment history? Liebrandt’s restaurants, whose future was assured by critics’ positive reviews, typically close within a year of favorable ink being spilled. Quoting P.T. Barnum: “This way…
By Gregory Crofton The oil boom in North Dakota produced jobs and apparently attracted a racist hate group. Paul Craig Cobb, a well-known white supremacist, decided that Leith, a town with population of about 20, would be an ideal place…
By Gregory Crofton Not often are you lucky enough to see John Prine at a film festival, but that happened at the sold-out “Live from New York!” at the Nashville Film Festival. Prine, a singer-songwriter known for hits like “Sam…
When Amish children turn sixteen, they are given the opportunity to embark on a coming-of-age ritual known as rumspringa (literally “running around”). During this period, they are allowed to indulge in smoking, drinking, drugs and other 21st-century pleasures. It ends…
By Gregory Crofton The Hip-Hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith bounded down onto the floor of the movie theater and told the projectionist to turn it up. The music playing over the end credits of the film got louder. Mic in…
