- 3/17/13 /
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‘I Know What The Shining Is Really About’: Inside the Crowded Cult at the Overlook Hotel
A new documentary explores the meanings that obsessive fans of the film have extracted.
Mark Jacobson Archive
- 1/20/13 /
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Sniping About Lou Reed With John Cale, Experimental Rock’s Eternal Almost-Star
41 minutes with the vanguard composer and former Velvet before an orchestra-backed nostalgia-tour stop at BAM.
- 11/4/12 /
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Ruins, Rumors, and Resilience in Rockaway
Assessing the damage along the peninsula.
- 4/27/12 /
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The Space Shuttle’s Solemn and Sad Flight Over New York
A dispatch from Red Hook.
- 4/13/12 /
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Fire, Flood Threatens a Morbidity Emporium on Gowanus
A calamity at a museum devoted to death, and related topics.
- 1/20/12 /
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Etta James and Johnny Otis: The End of a Great R&B Song
Otis discovered James over 60 years ago, and the two singers died within 48 hours of each other.
- 12/9/11 /
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Footnotes to an Obit: The Wild Life of Howard Tate, the Greatest Lost Soul Man
Tate made one of the great sixties soul albums, then disappeared for 25 years — but that's not all.
- 12/4/11 /
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Cotto-Margarito II: Revenge Bloodlust Semi-Satiated
Perhaps inevitably, Madison Square Garden's biggest fight in years didn't quite live up to its billing.
- 11/1/11 /
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Flying Saucer Cults and the American Sprawl: How Preston Miller Made God’s Land for $30,000
A movie documenting the "God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation," whose leader wears a ring said to contain a rocket ship capable of carrying 100,000 believers into space.
- 9/22/11 /
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‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Furor a Faint Memory at Park51 Opening
Remember when this was the biggest controversy ever?