HARD CRACKERS

This article contains spoilers. It’s a dinner party in a two-story luxury condo in Chicago’s Near North side. Floor to ceiling windows and state-of-the-art amenities adorn the two-story unit, home to successful art agent Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris) and her partner, the up-and-coming artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). The young black couple’s dinner guests […]

Throughout my unheralded scribing life, I have tried to write cogently about rock and roll.  I don’t know if I’ve ever done a decent job, some might say so now and again, but there is always the sound of one hand clapping.  I was weaned on the good critics, Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Nelson George, […]

When New York City dragged its feet on erecting a statue to honor Stonewall veteran and pioneering queer liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson, some local artists decided to take matters into their own hands. We sat down with sculptor Jesse Pallotta to get the story. Tell us about yourself. I am a queer sex-worker and […]

During the “Great Recession,” which was brought on by the banksters themselves who usually take the money and run, I wrote an article titled “Burn Down the Banks?” It was prompted by the financial crisis of 2007, 2008 and 2009, though I must admit I was also thinking of the branch of the Bank of […]

Scott Nappalos is a health care worker in California.  We asked him for an interview because we thought that he would be able to provide some insights into the realities and challenges of health and health care work  in the present moment that went beyond the superficial. We’d like to start by asking you to […]

We recently sat down with four of the people involved in the revitalization of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company to talk about the re-emergence of the company, the new books that have either just been published or will be published in the near future, their plans for the future and the vision they have […]