And so what hath Gerwig and Baumbach come down from the mountain with? Herewith, the Barbie teaser-trailer — as to what it all means? Your guess is as good as mine (see notes); one hopes for the very best possible subversion. Referencing Kubrick’s oft-referenced quantum evolutionary leap by way…

With the wacky folks at Netflix releasing an adaptation of fellow Bronx underachiever Don DeLillo’s White Noise, I’m taking a (first in a…

Perhaps sometime yesterday, Miss Irene Cara, a pure NYC Goddess and Pre-Raphaelite ingénue possessed of grace, talent, a cultivated intellect and down by law street smarts, found herself far from her Largo, Florida residence, and instead, somehow, on the “D” train, as the announcer proclaimed that she’d arrived at her…

Hi-Hello, My Love, I know it’s gonna happen someday — but approximately, how soon is now? Possibly 9 days away. Simply put: the reforming of The Smiths — or even a one-off re-pairing performance by Morrissey & Marr — has been an evergreen meditation in the fecund and fertile minds…

Herewith, by way of a 3–2–1 countdown, a lonely, image-gathering wanderer’s notes on the humanist machines that, well, give life meaning by facilitating understanding — while also poetically rendering the unsolvable nature of certain mysteries — through a kind of, albeit, ultimately limited, reclamatory engagement with the viscosity of existence…

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By Michael Vazquez The above-stated proposition requires a best practices buy-in (emphasis added to make lucid the intended use of this word “buy-in”, given that it’s a heartbreakingly relativist term when speaking of American elections — see “Citizens United”) namely, that one accept that premise that every elected official holding…

“When you think of almost every health care crisis that has existed in our city that St. Vincent’s has responded to, then I say St. Vincent’s not being here is a big loss to our city.” Sister Jan Ianucelli, S.C. St. Vincent’s hospital was there for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire…