Category: Media
Black Literacy
by Cyrus Cassells | Jul 17, 2017 | Books, MediaIf you’re looking this summer to get a firmer grasp of African-American life and culture, these four intensely dynamic, wide-ranging books, enriched by vital, memorable language and compelling vision, can’t be beat. Collected Poems by Robert Hayden This is a book I come back to time and again—a seminal work that illuminates African-American life […]
Dark Passages
by Isabel Ortiz | Jul 15, 2016 | Culture, MediaMarey’s “fusile photographique” In the late fifties, Diane Arbus spent summers skulking around Coney Island movie theatres and taking pictures of projections. In her ensuing image series, film noir vamps growled and sneered at her with the same ferocity as her subjects often did. “Onscreen woman with hoop earrings and a gun” (1958), on […]
13 Ways of Looking at Trump
by Dave Denison | Jun 29, 2016 | Media, PoliticsImage Credit: Marc Nozell Can anyone capture the essence of Donald Trump? What, if anything, is at his core? Journalists have been trying to define Trump ever since his rise to prominence in New York in the 1970s. And since his presidential campaign accelerated last fall, the takes on Trump have multiplied exponentially. There’s no […]
Strawberry Cubes Forever
by Cecilia D'Anastasio | May 18, 2016 | Culture, MediaEarly on the first day of New York’s IndieCade East, game developer Frank DeMarco carefully taped a bottle cap he’d found in the trash onto the keyboard of a STRAWBERRY CUBES’ arcade cabinet.
“It’s so players can’t press the escape button,” he explained, “and escape from the game.”
IndieCade East, a festival of independent games held April 29–May 1 at the Museum of the Moving Image, was just starting to fill with game developers and fans. Here, video games with low budgets, or even generous ones unfettered from behemoth publishers, teased at gaming’s most well-trod tropes: first-person shooters, dungeon-crawlers, military strategy.
The Big Benboozle
by D.R. Tucker | Oct 27, 2015 | Media, PoliticsBen Carson may be a renowned doctor, but even he cannot perform surgery on history. When the soft-spoken Islamophobic surgeon, critic of the modern civil-rights movement and top contender for the Republican presidential nomination, appeared on Fox News Channel’s Media Buzz as he began to climb in the polls, he declared that the GOP […]