They Will Always Be Losers: The Glory and Myth of the Chicago Cubs
By: Dominick Mayer On October 14th, 1908, the Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers by a score of 2 to 0 in Detroit’s Bennett Park to win the World Series […]
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What Can Be Said About Movie 43 and What Movie 43 May Say About Us
by: Dominick Mayer When I reviewed Movie 43 last week, I wrote the following: “Logic would suggest that the film is too dirty for the age group that’d actually find […]
Dwlindling Firsts: Eating the Pizza, Becoming an Adult
by: Dominick Mayer Until my 8th birthday, I had an all-consuming phobia of pizza. It wasn’t like I believed that a giant man made of red sauce and Canadian bacon […]
I Mean Really Make It Out: Overcoming Social Anxiety
by: Dominick Mayer “I thought about the winter. Under layers, I wouldn’t bleed. Drinking root beer, watching football, oh, I never thought I’d be in a place everyone went to, […]
Whitewashing: On the Racist Reactions to Hunger Games Casting
by: Dominick Mayer (Spoilers ahead, relative to the fact that I’ve been remiss in my duties as a pop culture scholar and haven’t finished the Hunger Games trilogy yet. Also, […]
40 Little Known Facts From Patrick Gill and Nico Lang’s Biographies
by: Patrick Gill and Nico Lang Nico on Patrick: 1. Patrick Gill was the person that Frank Ocean was talking about in his coming out letter and the inspiration for […]
St. Dominic: When I Attended Catholic School in the Chicago Suburbs
by: Dominick Mayer It wasn’t until I decided to get the hell out of parochial school at the age of ten that I discovered what subterfuge is. I attended St. […]
A Story That Disappears: Visiting the Theatre in My Hometown
by: Dominick Mayer In nightmares, I keep seeing a twisted version of a town in Michigan called South Haven that my family used to visit in the summers. I know […]
A Disaster Movie Dialogue: Reasons You Need to See Battleship
by: Dominick Mayer I’m an ardent defender of the colossal mainstream movie misfire. (Alliteration!) This started when I was a kid and couldn’t understand how Entertainment Weekly was making so […]
Sensitive With A Flamethrower Strapped To His Back: An Examination of the New Alpha Male in Cinema
by: Dominick Mayer “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” – Abraham Lincoln Note: If you haven’t seen the film Bellflower, seriously stop reading this and […]
