April 2009
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"Down These Mean Streets"
An interview with photographer Will Steacy
by Janna Washington
“The Forum, Philadelphia, 2008” from Down These Mean Streets
Will Steacy is an American photographer. Born in Philadelphia, he received a B.F.A in Photography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Steacy worked as Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous...
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Why I Think Pot Should Still Be Illegal
By Adam Hunter
[Editor’s note: This came into my inbox post-email-checking hours, so it’s a day late.]
Yoooo, duuuude. It’s four-twenty, man. Fore-twen-tee. 420!!! Haha. You guys know what I’m talking about. Well, maybe not you losers. You don’t know what I’m talking about. Or maybe you think you know what I’m talking about, but what I’m talking about isn’t what you think I’m talking about....
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Slow Century Summer Movie Preview
by Daniel Erenberg
Well, it’s only April, but the Summer Movie Season appears to have begun in earnest. Fast & Furious is out and making a ton of bank (over 100 million bucks in its first two weekends) and, in so doing has resurrected the careers of both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. And thank Christ for that, right? But, meanwhile, the studios have also begun releasing genuinely good films....
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Album Review: The Hazards Of Love, by The...
by Daniel Erenberg
We all knew that The Decemberists would eventually write a concept album. After all, they’ve always been storytellers just as much as they’ve been songwriters, sometimes to an extremely frustrating degree. Their last record, and major label debut, The Crane Wife, came very close to being classified as such, by packing in the three-part title track, as well as the five-section...