Geography of hate: the places of racism in American history. [With Geolocations]
The legacy of racism is everywhere in American history, from marble mansions to ordinary streetcorners. We must reckon with it.
The slow-motion lightning of “Thunderball”: Bond in Context, Part 4.
By 1965, the James Bond films' glitzy go-lucky formula was starting to some up against an enemy more formidable than Blofeld: changing cultural times.
Recap: Day 1 of the Christopher Plummer Movie Blogathon!
Day 1 of the blogathon brings us reviews of "The Sound of Music" and "The Man Who Would Be King."
Twelve again: The magic of “Moonrise Kingdom.”
Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" is like being 12 again--without all the crap that made being that age so wrenching and horrible.
The little tree still stands: 50 years of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
It's hard to believe that the Christmas special many of us grew up with is 50 years old!
Star-crossed voyager: The sad career of the MS Achille Lauro.
Burned, blown up, hijacked, bankrupted, and finally sunk...ships don't get much unluckier than this one.
Metal for Friday: Saxon “747 (Strangers in the Night).” [live video]
A famous almost-disaster became the centerpiece of one of Saxon's most beloved songs.
Earth, “Mad Men” location (and some history): Bob’s Big Boy Broiler, Downey, California.
This is the first of my Mad Men geography articles to go outside of New York City! Although the show takes place mostly in New York, [...]
Moses’s great boondoggle: the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part I].
In 1964, Robert Moses got his last hurrah as the big builder of the Big Apple. What hath Bob wrought? Find out!
Smoke on the water: the tragic disaster of the SS Yarmouth Castle.
Forty-eight years ago today, on November 13, 1965, the SS Yarmouth Castle, an ocean liner and cruise ship that plied the waves between Miami and [...]