The Newsroom: A Possible Hit with Definite Misses
By: Paul Andreacchi After watching the pilot episode for HBO’s new Sunday night drama The Newsroom, I was admittedly enthralled with the rapid fire dialogue and the clever melding of […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Raptors on Point
By: Dan Grant The Toronto Raptors continued their pursuit of… something recently, as they landed hard-nosed point guard Kyle Lowry from the Houston Rockets, giving up what really amounts to […]
Halfway Home: The 2012 MLB Season – National League
By: Chris Dagonas Check out my American League Midseason review here. So, this season has been pretty predictable in the American League. New York, Texas and Detroit are my picks […]
Halfway Home: The 2012 MLB Season – American League
By: Chris Dagonas With the almost simultaneous celebrations of North American National Independence now just behind us, the next summer milestone is the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. This also […]
Frank Ocean’s Very Publicly Discussed Private Life: Are Rappers Homophobic?
By Chris Dagonas Perhaps you’ve heard by now, but in case you haven’t, Frank Ocean swings both ways. Yes, the rapper/singer admitted that his first love was with a man, […]
The Iterating Spider-Man
By: Daniel Reynolds For a comic book character, it’s a pretty clear tale: teenage nerd gets bitten by radioactive spider, his uncle gets killed, he realizes he could have prevented […]
Euro 2012: Spain – Watch The Throne
By: Chris Dagonas Spain has won the three most recent major international soccer tournaments (2008 Euro Championship, 2010 World Cup, 2012 Euro Championship). So does this make them the greatest […]
Euro 2012: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Azzurri
By: Paul Andreacchi After knocking out the heavily favoured Germans in yet another Semi-Final (World Cup ’06 anyone?) the Italian National team marched onto the field for the Euro Cup […]
Climbing the ‘Alps’
By: Daniel Reynolds There is an early scene in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film, Alps, where a man in an ambulance is talking to a critically injured girl. He asks for her […]
