Later tonight, the United States of America will elect the first female president in its 238-year history, ending the most disheartening and bizarre election cycle in recent memory. The Democrats will likely retake control of […]
Tag: Life
Positively Blorth Street
Earlier today, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Robert Allen Zimmerman, a folk singer who performs under the name Bob Dylan. The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for “having created new poetic expressions […]
Worst to First: Easy Season One
The latest Netflix streaming series, Easy, from writer-director Joe Swanberg, shifts its focus each episode like a View Master, rotating through eight radically different stories of life in modern Chicago. Like HBO’s High Maintenance, Easy is more a series of […]
The 2016 Fall Movie Preview
From slave epics directed by accused rapists to war epics directed by confirmed anti-Semites, this fall movie season truly has something for everyone. Having spent months locked in contentious deliberations, the BPoFD Editorial Board has finally […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Saint Pablo
The stage floats. Picture a UFO flying low enough to skim fingertips, its underbelly lit with rows of stadium lights. A heat lamp glow that roils the crowd underneath. A thousand overdressed men and women made riotous […]
A True Delicacy
The annual Fiesta Oyster Bake, in San Antonio, Texas, takes place every mid-April on the brochuresque liberal arts campus of St. Mary’s University, the oldest Catholic university in the American Southwest. Established in 1916 by […]
We Need To Talk About Lionel
Two weeks ago, at The Brisbane Writers Festival, the novelist Lionel Shriver was scheduled to give an address on themes of “community and belonging,” a lustrous irony in light of the speech that the writer […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Blond/Blonde
Midway through “Nikes,” the first single from Frank Ocean’s sophomore album, Blond, the song transforms suddenly into another song, swapping simple drums for intricate guitar, sky-pitched auto-tune for a total lack thereof, the abrupt shift […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Suicide Squad
Suicide was once deemed the lone truly serious philosophical problem, but that was well before the advent of the superhero blockbuster. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus writes, “What is called a reason for living is […]
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