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Magpie Memories

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.

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

Camera Obscura

The First Wives Club

February 21, 2023

In the long run, the vanishing of this book and movie just proves their thesis.

Streaming Shuffle

Paul T. Goldman

February 1, 2023

Jason Woliner's fascinating, often hilarious, quasi-documentary series about one ordinary, extraordinary man

Camera Obscura

Escape to Witch Mountain

January 17, 2023

Spooky mysterious kids are exciting regardless of age or apparent ethnicity.

Lunch Links

The Pricemaster

January 12, 2023

University of North Texas art students put on the strangest yard sale you'll ever see

Year of the Month

Just when I was starting to feel okay: Chris Bell, I Am the Cosmos

December 21, 2022

The Big Star songwriter died in 1978; nearly fifteen years after his death, Rykodisc gave his only solo album a proper release