RKO Pictures
Vegetative Vampires
Howard Hawks’s The Thing and Our Echo Chamber Age

In the 1951 classic, an otherworldly being feeds on all-too-human fears—and shows how bonds can fragment in a climate of paranoia and distrust.

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Trick or Treat
Quietly Yours

The scariest radio program ever broadcast on American airwaves.

Hotel Lobby
Sailing Across a Room

The 75th anniversary of an overlooked Edward Hopper masterpiece.

The Silver Screen as a Mirror
The Ox-Bow Incident at 75

William Wellman’s Western is unlike any other.

D.J. Fontana performing with Sonny Burgess (Wikimedia Commons, Rockabillyvampire)
Elvis Watch
Give the Drummer His Due

The musical and cultural legacy of the late D.J. Fontana, rock-and-roll electrician.

The Way of the Gun
American Crazy

Thoughts on Santa Fe, Texas, and a classic film noir for these times.

Alexander Novati
The Imagination Police
Zombie Lit

Imagination policing in publishing is rapidly getting out of hand.

Billboard
Music
The Eternal Otis

Revisiting the master of emotion and one of the greatest concerts of the soulful ‘60s.

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Music
A Kiss Always Tasted

The authentic joys of late-period Billie Holiday in a pose-loving world.

Wikimedia Commons
All That Jazz
Goodman’s Greatest Gig at 80

The 1938 Carnegie Hall concert that changed the jazz world forever.

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