D’Angelo: Black Messiah Alex Benson April 22, 2015 Albums 1 “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...
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ Brooklyn Bowl Alex Benson March 12, 2014 Concerts 2 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 ...
An Interview with DJ Williams: American Upstart Alex Benson March 5, 2014 Interviews 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...
What It Do: Truth Will Out Alex Benson February 5, 2014 Columns 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...
What It Do: Traffic Alex Benson January 29, 2014 Columns 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...
What It Do: I, Human Alex Benson January 22, 2014 Columns 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...
What It Do: American Dynasty Alex Benson January 15, 2014 Columns 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...
What It Do: The Payoff Alex Benson January 1, 2014 Columns 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...
What It Do: The Delivery Alex Benson December 25, 2013 Columns 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 ...
What It Do: The Set-Up Alex Benson December 18, 2013 Columns 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...
