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Restoring the Feeling

Restoring the Feeling

In 1960 Nico Jacobellis was managing a movie theater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, when he decided to program a showing of Louis Malle's second feature Les Amants, or "The Lovers." The film featured a sex scene that, while quite tame by modern standards, ruffled enough feathers

Heavy Drifting

Heavy Drifting

You could walk the town I grew up in from end to end in roughly 45 minutes. I rarely had to go that far--most of my friends lived within 20. The building that housed both the middle and high school was closer to 17 minutes away; I walked there and

Memphis Halloween Mix

Memphis Halloween Mix

In the waning weeks of 2019, right around the time I forgot to cancel a free week-long trial of Shudder after I’d signed up to watch One Cut of the Dead, I started poking around the strange world of 90s Memphis rap. This dovetailed rather nicely with a newfound

Deadbeat Summer

Deadbeat Summer

My first summer job was as a secretary in the office of an orthopedic surgeon. I wanted to work at J. Crew (or, barring that, any retail store who's wares I enjoyed, as I wanted free shit) but they wanted references, and I had none. My dad was