In Retrospect: The Magic of David Bowie
It’s difficult for me to write this piece for a few reasons: One, that whatever you may think of when conjuring David Bowie up in your mind has probably already been said in the...
The question of ‘Barbie’ being snubbed at the Oscars
On Jan. 23, the 2024 Oscar nominations were announced. As per usual with Oscar nominations, there was immediate widespread outrage over certain people or movies getting snubbed. This year, the movie to receive this...
In Retrospect: In Memoriam of John Berger
Public intellectuals are a thing of the past and in some sense reached their heyday in the ‘60s. The days when intellectuals such as Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer reached massive audiences through television...
In Retrospect: 51 years of “A Love Supreme”
“All Praise Be to God to Whom All Praise Is Due.” — 51 years ago, these words graced and encapsulated a weakened and broken man, an alcoholic and a heroin addict and also a...
In Retrospect – The Lion King: Disney’s Magnum Opus
Let me paint you a picture of three monumental events that occurred in the warm summer month of June 1994. June 15: Walt Disney Pictures introduces the world to the colorful characters of Simba,...
In Retrospect: Yoko Ono is a fucking genius
To the reader: I understand, you are rolling your eyes at the prospect of having to respect a musician as universally written off as Yoko Ono, but I assure you that this is a...
In Retrospect: ‘The Night of the Hunter’ is a gothic nightmare born out of...
In the 1950s Hollywood saw the gradual decline of Hay’s Code, a set of censorship and regulations imposed on filmmakers by the industry. Artists began to ignore the guidelines and pushed the envelope on...
In Retrospect: ‘Heaux Tales’ is an exemplary concept album in contemporary music
After a slew of record breaking songs: "Bust Your Windows" (2008), "Need U Bad" (2008), "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)" (2010) "Let it Burn" (2015) and wide recognition throughout award seasons with Grammy...
In Retrospect: All my friends are back from the dead
I’m losing my edge. New technologies have paved the way for unprecedented synthesis between high and low, the personal and public, known and unknown, a process that is far from over. Nothing is ever...