A fraught family drama that left me completely unmoved.

Don't shoo them away. Cast them.

The Restless Lens keeps rolling along, rotator cuff be damned!

Seeing my fave band at my own university.

In a world that feels increasingly cruel, this was a moment that restored my faith in people.

A cinematic masterpiece (and one of my favorite films) gets the deep-dive treatment, with glorious results.

One-Armed and Dangerous

A photo book where the sum of the photos is much greater than the individual parts

A quiet, moving meditation on life and grief. One of the best books I've read this year.

The one-armed bandit strikes!

Tickets Please. Meet Blaise Hayward, a New York artist who's turning ticket stubs into art.

We continue the restrospective, with a look at last February's Photos of the Days (and some near misses)

A pretty decent examination and evaluation of a seminal punk album

Week 4: Beaches and Blizzards

I’ve always had a soft spot for J.M. Coetzee. Disgrace  really floored me when I first read it — one of those rare novels that sticks with you for years. Nothing else of his ever hit me quite as hard, but The Pole  reminded me why I keep coming back to him: the cool precision, the moral unease, the emotional restraint that somehow still stings. The Pole is a 70-year-old Polish concert pianist, famous for his austere interpretations of Chopin. Beatriz, 24 years his junior, is

Jethro Tull at Radio City – 49 Years Ago Today (!) On this day, 49 years ago (!), I saw Jethro Tull  at Radio City Music Hall . Hard to believe it’s been that long. I was 16 years old, three months shy of my 17th birthday. Back in high school, my two favorite bands were Jethro Tull  and The Kinks . This tour was in support of Songs from the Wood , which had just come out — a return to form for Tull, in my opinion. They’d released War Child  in ’74 (which I liked) and Minstrel

Week 3 of my Photos of the WEEK project takes me to the Caribbean island of Anguilla.

The numbers are in: 5,500 dogs and 328 cats vaccinated. Mission accomplished.

If you're a long-time fan of SNL, this (enormous) tome is the book for you.

Week 2 of my Photos of the WEEK experiment.