D’Angelo: Black Messiah
“Dude, don’t go around telling everybody, but that’s where D’Angelo lives…”
The house, set back from a quiet street in a nondescript micro-neighborhood in the newly developed forestland southwest of Rich... Read More...
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ Brooklyn Bowl
BROOKLYN, NY—“Well well,” Karl Denson opens the third and final night of the band’s tour opening run at Brooklyn Bowl. The first two nights had been packed, highlights including a guest appearance from Big ... Read More...
An Interview with DJ Williams: American Upstart
It’s a quiet June evening in Richmond, VA, as a tall, dark-skinned guy with a guitar case strides into the Mint Gastropub, located in the Fan district, near Virginia Commonwealth University. The patrons, dr... Read More...
What It Do: Truth Will Out
Politicians—successful ones, anyway—have an uncanny ability to hide their dark side from the public eye. Whether you’re talking about a megalomaniacal bully like Chris Christie or a narcissistic grifter like fo... Read More...
What It Do: Traffic
The recent net neutrality decision by the Appeals Court in D.C. has sparked a fair amount of concern among people who believe the internet should remain the open platform it is today. For those that missed what... Read More...
What It Do: I, Human
In I, Robot, the 2004 movie based on the work of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, the antagonist, a super-powerful artificial intelligence system, determines that in order to follow the first “Law of Roboti... Read More...
What It Do: American Dynasty
Last month’s controversy over the statements of Phil Robertson, one of the yuppie-turned-redneck stars of A&E’s Duck Dynasty, dominated the airwaves and the internet, becoming yet another proxy battle for t... Read More...
What It Do: The Payoff
The Facebook debate was annoying, but not entirely unexpected. After I posted the Mother Jones article referenced in last week’s column (detailing the aggressive rental property acquisition strategy currently b... Read More...
What It Do: The Delivery
The housing crisis of 2008 wiped out a staggering amount of wealth, especially among minority and low-income Americans. Millions who had finally attained the multi-generational aspiration of home ownership and ... Read More...
What It Do: The Set-Up
During the financial crisis of 2008, a tsunami of home foreclosures—mostly from within the subprime lending market—caused seemingly apocalyptic toil among the financial markets, even causing the venerable inves... Read More...
