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Year of the Month

You Will Make Some Sense of This: Ghost in the Machine

June 29, 2023

In their penultimate studio album, The Police take a look at the darkness and try to find the light.

Camera Obscura

Ode to Billie/Billy Joe

June 20, 2023

Southern Gothic at the finest it got in the '70s that doesn't even make it to cult status these days.

Year of the Month

Ain’t There Anyone Here for (Platonic) Love?

May 23, 2023

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes runs on female friendship.

Camera Obscura

That Was Then [punctuation] This Is Now

May 16, 2023

What happens when you change the distinctive setting of an S. E. Hinton novel?

Year of the Month

Hollywood’s Guide to Female Friendship: Bridesmaids and The Help

April 11, 2023

This is such a stone-cold pack of weirdos, and I am so proud!

Attention Must Be Paid

Texas Guinan

April 8, 2023

The queen of the speakeasies whose legacy remains strong even as she's largely forgotten.

Year of the Month

I’m not as dumb as I am: Happy Endings is the 21st century’s great screwball sitcom

April 5, 2023

An extensive look at one of the very best, and most screwed by the network, sitcoms of the last 25 years

Celebrating the Living

Tyne Daly

April 2, 2023

A nepo baby whose career long since outstripped that of her working actor father.

Attention Must Be Paid

Don LaFontaine

April 1, 2023

In a world . . . .

Intersectional Femivision

SUPER MARIO BROS. 1993 and the Rise of Feminism

March 30, 2023

A look at how Samantha Mathis's portrayal of Princess Daisy changed the princess narrative