ArchiveApril 2016

Memories of Prince

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Prince Photo by Michael Ochs

Learning of Prince’s death last week really shook me. This post is an attempt to express some of what he has meant to me over the years. Albany, NY. May 1983. At a time when my experience of cities was almost nonexistent, my sister and I went to SUNY to help my mother pack up her stuff and return from her final year in residence at the university. The campus was warm and bright and full of...

Star Wars Naysayers

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When the new Star Wars movie came out, I was a bit taken aback at how it now seems to be the conventional wisdom that the first Star Wars movie (I won’t call it “A New Hope”; to me, it’s just “Star Wars”, which was the name of the movie when it came out in 1977) was a true classic, and that everything with the new movie would be OK if it could capture some of...

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