Denzel Washington, Haley Bennet, and Luke Grimes in The Magnificent Seven (Village Roadshow Pictures)
The Magnificent Seven, directed by Antoine Fuqua, is s...
My family used to live at 15 Olivier Place, Kingston 8, Jamaica. I wrote it at the top of all the letters I penned to my little sister, Lisie, who shared a bedroom with me. I spent 11 years in that grey townhouse, one of about one hundred similar to it....
When I returned to California, I brought my diaries into the backyard every afternoon and read them through sequentially, with the hope of learning more about the years before my brain injury....
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author, opens up to me about his family, his life and struggles. The man behind Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This is How You Lose Her is not usually an open book. On this day he was. Kind of....
For the price of a one-month Netflix subscription, you can roll out a mattress in the back of your pickup truck and enjoy a screening of two back-to-back, big-s...
Vincent Morisset doesn’t know what people do with his films. Do people watch them? Do they play them? In conversation, he alternates between calling his audience “users,” “spectators,” or “viewers.”...
A zine is a tiny book that you make on your own. It can be about anything. People capture the story of their lives in zines, little diaries and time capsules folded down the center. An abridged version of “magazine" or "fanzine", zines have been reproducing the voices of people on the fringes since their punk-rock inception....
Raised by an outspoken, lesbian, feminist mother who started Olympia, Washington’s first women’s health clinic, my sisters and I grew up in a busy house filled with stories of confrontations with dominant culture. With charisma and charm, Pat Shively, my courageous and visionary mother, taught us to follow our hearts, question authority, fight for the underdog, laugh loudly and raise hell....
We all know the story. Patient Zero appears mysteriously and the world is infected with the zombie virus, leaving few intrepid human beings behind to band t...
