BOSTON GLOBE: Trump the undergraduate declined invitations to attend frat parties. He didn’t drink alcohol then, and says he still doesn’t. He did not join any extracurricular groups. The man who would later promote his image around the world did not even show up for his college yearbook photo. In the yearbook’s “class prophecy,’’ with its predictions on where classmates would end up — gossip columnists, surgeons, Olympians, Supreme Court justices, were among the professions named — Trump isn’t mentioned. “You know, I wasn’t Trump then, you understand?” Trump said. “I was Trump, but I wasn’t Trump.” One reason […]
SIDEWALKING: Teach Your Children Well
Temple School of Journalism, 8:55 AM Thursday by MARY LYNN DOMINGUEZ
YO LA TENGO: Friday On My Mind
CHRISTGAU: Right, it’s been a quarter of a century, but how they’ve changed since Fakebook. There’s the bassist around whom Georgia and Ira cohered. There’s Georgia’s increasingly confident calm meshing with Ira’s increasingly thoughtful quiet. There’s the fragile, enduring lyricism that’s been their musical heart since “Autumn Sweater,” and the uneasy, enduring domesticity that goes with it. Ira took the lead on Fakebook’s covers, which tended toward a perky cheek now gone. But amazing as ever on this second covers album is his ear for the obscure ditty. MORE RELATED: Kurt Wagner’s YLT Bio After The Jump YO LA TENGO […]
TRAILER: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores, in thirty countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But thats not the story. All Things Must Pass is a feature documentary film examining this iconic companys explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by […]
RAW FEED: Frank Rizzo Vs. The Fourth Estate
1980 confrontation between former mayor of Philadelphia Frank Rizzo and a news crew from KYW in an unmarked van staking out his home in Chestnut Hill with cameras rolling to find out if Rizzo was misusing his taxpayer-funded police security detail to perform mundane chores like walking his dog and watering his lawn. Though he was, by this point, neither mayor nor police commissioner, he orders his police detail around like a capo barking out orders to a goon squad. After calling KYW crew members crumbs, creeps, cowards, yellow, sneaks, lushes, crumb bums and other hard-boiled lingo straight out of […]
COMMENTARY: The Mayor Of Asshole City
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY On the contrary, Donny Boy, it’s not the undocumented who “have to go,” it’s moronic, silver-spooned, misogynistic, uber-pandering, racist, megalomaniacs such as yourself. And, coincidentally, given the fact that some 25% of the Republican “base” (the definitive term? you betcha) appear to be in lock-step with your imbecilicly simplistic — not to mention, ungodly immoral — solution to such an intractably complex problem as out-of-control illegal immigration, I’m wondering if you could have possibly, maybe inadvertently, misidentified the “who” it is that really “have to go”? Just speculating. “I’ll deport them all. They have to go. Period.” Has a certain “ring” to it, doesn’t it, Don? […]
Lou Reed And John Cale, Twin Architects Of The Velvet Underground, Jammed Together For The First Time At A High School In The Lehigh Valley
According to Transformer, Victor Bockris’ exceptional Lou Reed bio, the first time Lou and John Cale played together was in 1965 at a gig at a high school in…wait for it, the Lehigh Valley.* After graduating Syracuse, Lou got himself hired as a house composer at Long Island’s Pickwick Records, a low budget record label specializing in cheap knock-offs of pop culture originals. High on methedrine, he wrote “The Ostrich” — think “Hang On Sloopy” covered by The Cramps — to cash in on the Do The…dance craze, as was the style of the day. The single was released […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR A year after Sept. 11, actor Adam Driver joined the Marine Corps. He was working odd jobs, selling vacuum cleaners and paying rent to live in his parents’ house — and he says, like many other Americans, he felt a sense of patriotism and he wanted retribution. “I wanted to ‘test my manhood’ and serve my country and just get even and … get away from home and everything I didn’t like about it,” Driver tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “In retrospect, it was actually pretty great.” After suffering from a mountain biking injury, Driver, who now […]
FIGHTIN: Larry Bowa Begs To Differ
…like your grandfather on meth.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: Jonathan Goldstein Pulls The Plug On WireTap After 11 Years Of Wry Profundity
This is tragic, just tragic. JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN: This is a hard, sad thing to announce, but WireTap is coming to an end. The reasons for this are many, but the simplest way to put it is that 11 years is a long time to do something and it felt like time to try something new. The show has run longer than Seinfeld and All in the Family. It’s run longer than I, or anyone, could have ever imagined. It started from a simple desire to share the funny, smart people in my life with all of you. I wanted […]
Werner Herzog’s 24 Rules For Making Great Cinema
Always take the initiative. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Learn to live with your mistakes. Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern. That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it. There is never an excuse not to finish a film. Carry bolt cutters everywhere. […]
CINEMA: Tarantino On Tarantino
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Speaking of genre, what is it about the Western for you? There aren’t many being made right now. QUENTIN TARANTINO: There are a few coming out. Antoine Fuqua is doing Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, so that’s one. Django did so well I’m surprised that there’s not even more. One thing that’s always been true is that there’s no real film genre that better reflects the values and the problems of a given decade than the Westerns made during that specific decade. The Westerns of the ’50s reflected Eisenhower America better than any other films of […]
JOHN OLIVER WATCH: LGBT DiscrimiNation
John Oliver’s show last night out-swaggered Mick Jagger in a rooster strut through of the “progress” made with gay marriage. The SCOTUS decision was a milestone and I will not diminish it, but we will have a long way to go. In a country where 26 million Facebook users put a rainbow filter over their profile picture (passive activism, but I’ll take it), 31 states permit employers to fire employees for being gay, landlords to evict tenants for being gay and businesses to refuse service. To add the cherry on top, 69% of people in America have no idea it’s […]