“New York is a dysfunctional relationship itself,” a woman laments in Pacho Velez’s Searchers, a cinematic sociological study of online dating via the POV of a wide range of New Yorkers during...
As a liberal American who has never lived in a state where my presidential vote counted (thanks to our white, male, landowning founders having created a little system of disenfranchisement called the...
With the summer theatrical blockbuster now a remnant of the pre-pandemic past, streaming services of every corporate stripe have rushed in to fill the void. And since the true crime genre has long...
When white people play the “I don’t see race” card they are either A) lying (to others and/or themselves) or B) being racist (as it follows that “not seeing race” literally means not seeing...
With trust in the media, in institutions, in each other at a depressing low, it’s important to know how we got here - and how to flip the script. Which is why I’ve compiled an eclectic...
June 28, 1969 – July 3, 1969. Those were the dates of the Stonewall Uprising. The days - and I emphasize the plural - that changed US LGBTQ history forever. What we too often forget, with our...
As a non-coastal-dwelling American, the need to know what’s going on in my own backyard has led me to a renewed appreciation for the importance of local journalism in all its forms - and to even...
Hard to believe that it’s only been a little over three decades since the people of Romania decided they’d had enough of their country’s communist strongman and rose up to topple his...
As its title suggests, D. Wade: Life Unexpected is an unexpected film. The latest offering from ESPN Films and Imagine Documentaries (an offspring of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine...
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...