Hollywood in Place: The Velocity of Discourse Where I Live, Part 2 (June 1, 2020)*
Propaganda has escaped the internet, it’s running amok in my neighborhood (and yours!). Helicopters and sirens and camouflage, oh my! A popular... Read more →
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Hollywood in Place: The Velocity of Discourse Where I Live, Part 1 (April 1, 2020)*
I went to my local pharmacy megachain to buy a thermometer last month and I saw Pete Buttigieg and his husband at the self-checkout. For a few days I... Read more →
Truth and Lies in Memphis
I left Las Vegas on a six-day road trip to Philadelphia last spring with my friend Erika. I wanted to visit a friend in Lubbock, Texas. Erika wanted... Read more →
States of Matter, the Media, and Stormy Daniels
1. Force For Good (and Profit) I never meant to consume so much news. News, The News, The Media, lost its place as a Thing Over There that I could... Read more →
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Beware the Community Builders
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices. Did you see that recent New York Times... Read more →
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Why Is Trump Acting So Dumb About Healthcare?
What if I told you that in the near future, millions of us would be looking to an app for healthcare, instead of “insurance.” From Jared... Read more →
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Quiet Genius in Purple Rain
I saw Purple Rain last week, in a theater. We’ve reached the first anniversary of Prince’s death, so it’s playing in New York (and probably... Read more →
This is Ourselves (Under Pressure)
Last fall, Chiwan Choi invited me to guest-edit this issue of Cultural Weekly. What’s the theme? Open. Format? Open. Sure, I said. I knew I wanted... Read more →
Brooklyn Museum:
100 Million Reasons to Protest
I was included in some email threads last week that were helping to shape what became a petition to the Brooklyn Museum and its new director, Anne... Read more →
Sanctum Sanctorum
I went to a poetry reading at the bookstore in my town over the weekend. A white woman read a poem about a black UC Berkeley professor. The poem was... Read more →
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