By the close of its third season, FX’s Snowfall has matured from an uneven, dubiously-paced pot-boiler about the early 80’s crack trade in Los Angeles…
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Jellyfish! Cibo Matto! Paramore! Dance Gavin Dance! Living The Color! Pavement! (A look back at “Together Nonlinear”)
It’s Midnight and I am laying awake in my bed. Staring at the ceiling, my mind is racing with thoughts so quickly that I can’t focus on any individua…
Circling the Wagons : Star Trek Discovery Pumps new blood into an aging franchise
Last month, Star Trek: Discovery concluded its second season on the streaming platform CBS All Access. While I am a fan of the franchise, I never felt…
“We’re Americans”: A look at Jordan Peele’s Us
Jordan Peele’s Us is a note-perfect nightmare of Late Capitalism. When I was seven years old, my family and I joined hands at the intersection of Rte.…
HOMECOMING: shrewd casting and narrative decisions make this new Amazon drama worth a look.
It’s not often that we get a chance to see a podcast adapted for television—especially one like Homecoming. Homecoming recently finished its first sea…
Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun ( Sokari Ekine, 2018)
Sokari Ekine’s Spirit Desire, Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Voudoun is not meant to be just another coffee table specimen. Th…
New Orleans’s own Jon Padgett is an apostle of Dark Fiction.
My first exposure to Jon Padgett’s work was through the horror fiction podcast, Pseudopod. Padgett narrated his own short story, “20 Simple Steps to V…
Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven, A Hell, A Dream Deferred (A Review)
Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018 Something used by someone else carries a history with it. A piece of cloth, a platter, a cut-glass pitcher, a recipe.…
The Black Family Gets Its Own on Black Lightning
In 2003, Marvel Comics released Kyle Baker’s Truth: Red White and Black, an original, in-continuity graphic novel exploring the idea that before givi…
Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty:
Is it still Lion in Winter if there are no signs of frost? Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty arrived in our inboxes as we sent New Orleans Gri…