2019 Culture Recap
The biggest stories from 2019, from Jackson Pollock’s drips to Jennifer Lawrence’s wedding.
Further Reading – 1/17/18
Call Me By Your Name and empathy. There is no shortage of essays about this film, which opens locally on Friday. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story premieres tonight, and I think it’s going to be this year’s equivalent of The Young Pope (aka the show I get really excited about and then […]
Further Reading – Pizza, Bountiful Pizza Edition
A helpful primer on why Puerto Rico is part of the United States. How writing a comic helped me cope with suicidal ideation. Jacob from Mothers News now has a book blog. Found this while poking around the RISD Museum website the other day: An Ambitious but Essential Multi-Purpose Checklist for Discerning Black Artists New […]
Further Reading: Sea Otter Awareness Week Edition
An exhibit on censorship was itself censored in a Foxboro public library. Speaking of which, it’s Banned Books Week. ROAD TRIP! Tom Burr’s installation in New Haven’s Pirelli Building is up through November. That’s the Brutalist wonder that for the last few years has been reduced to billboard status for the neighboring Ikea. ANOTHER ROAD […]
Further Reading: Female Bank Robbers Edition
Take a Rhode Tour of local sites related to the Dorr Rebellion, which is where Law And Order Party got its name from. The excellent new Chelsea Wolfe album is streaming on NPR, which is also hosting the new album from the Clientele. I pretty much only like the Clientele on drizzly fall days so […]
Further Reading: Lizzie Borden’s House Is On The Market
CANADA directed the video for Beck’s “Up All Night,” a song which sounds more like Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling” than I ever thought a Beck song would. The City of Providence has installed 10 “giving meters” that are “donation stations” for the homeless. I’m skeptical. The Fall River house where Lizzie Borden lived […]
Further Reading: Dolly Parton’s Civil War Dinner Theater
After a six-month hiatus, Further Reading is back with a list of notable links from recent internet history… Did you know that Dolly Parton owns a Civil War themed dinner theater? It sounds INSANE. Photographer Jason Reblando looks at the utopian public housing communities of the midwest. Nature photographers: The Audubon Society of Rhode Island […]