Rosario Dawson Acts Up
Rosario Dawson never pined to be an actress. Her family, squatting in an abandoned tenement building in New York City, was just trying to make it. Then, when she was 15, the director of Kids spotted...
View ArticleAll in the Game
Michael Kenneth Williams is hardly a household name, but Omar Little, his career-making character in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, requires no further introduction. A swashbuckling ghetto fixture...
View ArticlePenn State’s Joe Paterno Shouldn’t Have Coached a Game This Season
Penn State did the right thing tonight when it fired its storied football coach Joe Paterno (and its president, Graham Spanier). But it’s pretty little, and it’s way late. Joe Paterno remained Coach...
View ArticleHow to Make a Feature Film With Your Cellphone
In early 2010, Hooman Khalili hatched his plan to make a theater-ready feature film using a cellphone simply because he could. “Technology is moving so fast I knew it could be done,” he says. He found...
View ArticleProject Runway’s Top Gunn
If Tim Gunn had his druthers, he’d spend most of his time alone: “I’m one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.” But the 58-year-old fashionista rarely escapes the spotlight these days....
View ArticleWendell Pierce Goes to Market
Actor Wendell Pierce, best known as foul-mouthed homicide detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, plays a struggling trombonist in Treme, the latest HBO offering from writer/producer David Simon. The...
View ArticleSonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore
Sonja Sohn came up hard. The only female star of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire—she portrayed steely detective Kima Greggs—Sohn grew up in a neighborhood as stricken by poverty, drugs,...
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Film Review: No Look Pass
No Look Pass HIGH HIP PRODUCTIONS 87 minutes Emily Tay is the Asian American pro baller from Harvard that you haven’t heard of (disclosure: I played hoop there too), and her career as a flashy point...
View ArticleShort Takes: Soul Food Junkies
Soul Food Junkies ITVS 63 minutes Seasoned. Battered. Smoked. Fried. Collard greens, fried chicken, corn bread, mac and cheese, sweet potato pie. Byron Hurt’s Soul Food Junkies makes you hungry and...
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This Afghan Policewoman Died Fighting the Taliban. Now Right-Wingers Are...
Malalai Kakar was a police officer in Afghanistan. She was also a mother of six, a feminist, and a fearsome threat to the Taliban, who gunned her down in 2008. You would know some of Kakar’s story if...
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