It has been a privilege to serve on the Downtown Development Authority for the past eight years. Looking back, it feels like the culmination of a long chapter of civic service that began with the advisory board for (SCENE) MetroSpace in 2010, followed by the Arts Commission, and later serving as the Chair for the […]
Man, last time I was at Coachella was like, 20 years ago, but it’s been fun watching it on Youtube at the office.
Posted this in today’s newsletter, but felt compelled to share Joe Moreno’s three daily life goals here, too:
Not really, but it is Easter tomorrow, so let’s talk about Corita Kent (1918–1986), often called the “screen printing nun.” I just finished all three Austin Kleon books, where I discovered the Catholic sister, teacher, and pop artist known for silkscreen prints combining advertising imagery, poetry, and messages about social justice. Working in the 1960s […]
What happened to the movie tagline, asks Nancy Friedman. “They used to be memorable and quotable. Now they’re redundant, wordy, or banal.” “Sinners is about music, vampires, and racism, with Michael B. Jordan — who’d go on to win an Oscar for Best Actor — in a double role: That’s his dual photo on the […]
Asif Kapadia will “bring the long-running ITV documentary series Up to an end with a concluding instalment that will air this year,” so says The Guardian. “The series, which began in 1964 and was voted the most influential UK TV show of the last 50 years in 2024, has followed a group of people from […]
Wil Wheaton’s reading of Stephen King’s The Body made for the perfect companion while I did yard work and walked my dog along nearby trails. Having played Gordie in Stand by Me, he brings a deeply personal resonance to the narration. It feels like a full-circle moment, Wheaton returning to the story with an insider’s […]
Kind of strange (probably not that strange) but this week basically echoed this same stretch last year. I didn’t end up seeing Marc Maron again, but I did pick up an autographed copy of his so-called “party record” Panicked, which, by the way, is almost word-for-word the show I went to last year. That was […]
Aadam Jacobs “secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.” “On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut […]
I still have a DVD set of his that I got in high school, that replaced a VHS set I had bought a few years prior. While on the subject of Criterion, I like this virtual closet, “of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, […]