Category: Culture

Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love

“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”

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Roger Q. Mason Tells No Lies

Roger Q. Mason is controversy. Roger Q. Mason is change. Roger Q. Mason is revolution. “Every good revolution happens behind locked doors,” he proclaims, sealing the portals leading to Theatre Intime’s Charrier Room. He’s been directing rehearsals for seven weeks … Read More

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Milk from a Stranger

Wherein a Nass writer ruminates on an experience with an alternative dairy product.

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Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood

Two nights before Fences opens, I saw director Roger Q. Mason ‘08 in rehearsal at Theater Intime. He stood onstage, reading and gesturing for a missing actor over the top of his script. The wooden set was unpainted, and the … Read More

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Canada F.A.Q.

On Canada and Justin Trudeau.

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Green is the New Black

I was late to climb aboard the Muppet train. If you’d asked me to name them when I was five, I’d have known Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and maybe Gonzo. But I didn’t discover the other treasures that Jim … Read More

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Women or Work?

The last time I faced the agreeable task of opining on theatrical matters in a writerly fashion was a gaping decade ago. I was ten, I was wide-eyed, and I was smitten with Grendel. Or was it Grendel’s mother? That … Read More

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Cheat Code Honor

Disturbing moans of ecstasy and anguish reverberate throughout campus. The slightly overweight crowd is squeezed into a tight room: bodies press up against one another and fingers tickle the rock-hard joysticks. At the last second, my partner lets out a gasp of relief: “Ohhhhhh.” Victory.

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Oeuvre Reviews, Joshua Malina: The West Wing, Season 4

“… in which Joshua Malina makes his debut as Will Bailey and I suddenly become very, very interested in the mechanics of government.”

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End-Times Tunes

An album that encapsulates an era.

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Politics and Street Art

The following was adapted from an excerpt of a Word document that may one day, by the grace of David Simon and the Holy Ghost, become a thesis. Amen. Graffiti, also referred to as street art or guerrila art, depending … Read More

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The Six Best Album Titles of 2008

The album titles I want to highlight here earn my praise not as a result of vitality in any traditional musical- or thematic-unification, but because, they’re just pleasing somehow—they make me raise a bemused eyebrow, and then giggle like a schoolgirl. Is this not reason enough to crown a king?

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