Working Class Hero: Rocky Balboa or Ann Romano
Maybe Michael Corleone moving to Tahoe left a bad taste in our mouths. Maybe we wanted him to legitimize the family business instead of going gangster. Whatever the reason, the Hollywood hero of the ensuing year was not the privileged prodigal son, it was the working class Italian-American. Remember Rocky Balboa and Ann Romano? As [...]
This Thanksgiving
I wonder what would happen if this Thanksgiving holiday was more traditional. I am not thinking of the harvest festival celebration of abundance common to all cultures, but of the practice of public days characteristic of the Pilgrims and Puritans themselves. These public days were the opposite of Thanksgiving as we have come to know [...]
Providence: My Favorite Town
There’s a show tonight at Machines with Magnets that I won’t be going to, but it will be King Hell awesome. I think The Silks are one of the best acts on wheels right now, even though I’m not really a roots music kind of guy. Based on the advice of my friend Lord Giovanni, [...]
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