August 22, 2013Last year, a 20-year-old man named Michael Israel committed suicide after battling addiction to painkillers. His father, Senator Tim Kennedy,…
June 21, 2012I've recently been obsessing over the 1997 film Event Horizon, a sci-fi/horror flick described by its director as "The Shining in…
July 9, 2010Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…
June 16, 2010"As I got to know my adjunct colleagues better, I began to see these largely invisible, voiceless laborers as a…
May 12, 2010Echoing its clumsy use of under-language with visual and verbal elements, the film score—even though the songs are often explicitly…