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25 Years After Cassavetes
25 years ago, in February of 1989, filmmaker John Cassavetes died. One of the greatest actors of his generation, Cassavetes mostly turned his back on appearing in front of the camera in favor of self-financing a series of highly personal, deeply polarizing films that continue to vex critics, actors, directors and audiences alike. I discovered [...]
Bill Hicks’s DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
20 years ago, comedian Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer and the greatest comic of his generation disappeared forever. Hicks was working on a new CD when he experienced the first symptoms of the disease that would take his life. That project found Hicks mixing his stand-up with his own musical recordings to create a [...]
Pussy Riot Whipped
After a short visit to America and an appearance on Colbert Report, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina planned to return to Russia just in time for the Olympics. Reunited with their Pussy Riot bandmates, the girls and a male friend brought along as a camera man planned to film another protest music video for the [...]
Fischer VS Frazier?
So, I think I’ve finally found my sport. It combines brains and brawn, strategy and endurance, and the ability to absorb both physical and mental anguish. In short, this is a sport that tests the whole man. In fact, just trying to overcome one’s sense of disbelief at Chess Boxing is enough to make even [...]
Kentucky Corvettes Swallowed by Sinkhole
According to my girlfriend, Bowling Green, Kentucky (her hometown) is known for two things: caves and Corvettes. The iconic sports cars are built there and the National Corvette Museum celebrates the city’s automotive legacy. The place is also sitting on top of limestone deposits that often give way into the Mammoth Cave system they form [...]
Shutterbugs: Warhol, Burroughs, Lynch
Andy Warhol is better remembered for his paintings, and even his films, than for the hundreds of photographs he took in the last period of his career. William Burroughs’ legacy counts writing and even painting before his drawn-on photographs. David Lynch is a known cinematic genius who happens to love capturing still images of massive [...]
French UFO Turns 33
33 years ago, in January of 1981, a French farmer named Renato Nicolaï heard a whistling sound while working outside — that was right before a UFO landed right in front of him. Here’s Renato’s take… Can I Get a Witness? “My attention was drawn to a small noise, a kind of little whistling. I [...]
The Farm on Film
My neighbors in Tennessee live on the longest-surviving hippie commune in the United States. Here’s ABC’s take on the place in 2012: If you thought communes had gone the way of the tie dye shirt, think again. New, non-hippy ones are springing up. The oldest, The Farm—still hippyish and still going strong–is the subject of [...]
