A couple of things:
1) Went recently to the Kendall to see Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows, a late 60s film about the French Resistance. Superb. Somehow, Melville brings to bear all the poetic realism and existential beauty of the French gangster genre to the historical film. Simone Signoret gives a great performance as well. Go […]
It’s been a while since I’ve had a Featured Blog post here, but my friend Paul has been talking 43 Folders‘ praises for some time now and a mention of the site in his review of productivity books reminds me to finally go take a look at it.
43 Folders bills itself as a site “about […]
I’m long overdue in giving notice to Charles Swift and his excellent City Record and Boston News-Letter. It’s a compendium of Boston history… vanished buildings, forgotten events, context for current debates on planning and urban development. His recent posts - on a 1970s BRA book, Mass. Av in the 1920s, thoughts on the population Census, […]
Dan has tagged me to reveal what’s on my RSS subscription list. Sounds like a good way as any to show how much I live or don’t live up to my own advice. Besides, I’ve been working on a new, updated blogroll, which probably won’t be done for another couple of weeks. So take some […]
The worst thing about the exchange on postpunk music going on over at Slate is that it’s just so dang short. I definitely want to read Simon Reynolds’ Rip It Up, a history of that period in rock that was largely underground in the States. Respondent Stephen Metcalf sums up the book’s argument about the […]
It’s been a while since I’ve featured some new (to me) blogs. So I thought I’d make up for the quiet spell by pointing out some of the other gay bloggers around town. Does it matter if a writer is gay? Not to be essentialist about these things, but I do tend to think it […]
Bill Redding, an "admitted political hack," has started a promising new blog on Beacon Hill inside-politics stuff called Under the Golden Dome.
I don’t know of a blog that covers the "insider" buzz among the young Democrats actually working at the State House on campaigns and for the various interest groups around the Commonwealth.
My hope, […]
My friend Paul, an independent filmmaker formerly in Knoxville, now based in Philadelphia, has started a blog that, even if I didn’t know him, I’d hearily recommend to those interested in independent film. Self-Reliant Filmmaking is a compendium of news, advice, reflections on distribution and commentary on filmmaking aesthetics. The best place to start may […]
I’m trying to make good on my New Year’s resolutions and feature some new sites of interest. What better way to start than with the wonderful nerdy-arty mix of the blog from the MIT Press folks? As to be expected, there’s one part art and design, one part technology and techno-cultural theoretical work; and […]