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You can read my essays and interviews in the Baltimore City Paper and my columns at PopMatters.
reviews in bold = personal favorites

COLUMNS

Dwain Esper: Director With Roots In Hell
Leone and Kurosawa: A Fistful Of Yen
Mary Pickford: The Most Powerful Woman In Hollywood
The Apartment: Finally, Room At The Inn
There Is No Spoon: Dziga Vertov and The Matrix
Gun Crazy: Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?
The Skeleton Of My Dead Child: Erich von Stroheim
Punchin' In The Rain: Gene Kelly and Bruce Lee
She Thinks She's Edith Head
Buster Keaton vs. Charlie Chaplin: Mechanical Animal
Mary Poppins: Supercalifuckthesystemexpialidocious
Imitation of Life: Non-Tragic Mulatto
The Misfits: Blonde Persephone
John Ford and Monument Valley: Monument Achievement
Clara Bow: Ain't IT A Shame

INTERVIEWS

Arthur Jones: The Road He Traveled
Jim Bell: Don't Hate: Strippers Fight The Government
Transmodern Festival 2008
Q&A: Enoch Pratt Free Library's Telephone Reference Service
Todd Haynes: I'm Not There
Andrew Hershberger and Arnold T. Blumberg: Zombiemania
Ed Okonowicz: Baltimore Ghosts
Franco Sacchi: This Is Nollywood
Don Diego Ramirez: Trailer Trash
Leila Connors Peterson and Nadia Connors: The 11th Hour
Red Sammy
China and Nadja Martens: The Future Generation
The Jennifers
Meshelle
Tom Warner : Jump Cuts at the Pratt Library
Jean McGarry
Semites On Bikes
Carla Speed McNeil
Ibrail Creative Team
Amy Sedaris: Strangers With Candy
Kevin Smith: Clerks II
Patrick Creadon: Wordplay
Allegra Bennett: Ms. Fix-It
Andrew Leman: The Call of Cthulhu
Chen Kaige
Shana Yarborough
George J. E. Sakkal
Jenny Gräf Sheppard and Kenneth Jones
Bennett Miller: Capote
Lisa Penn and Laurie Hare: 2 Hot Art Chicks
LA. Judge: Q&A
Paul Provenza: The Aristocrats
katie rubright and Heidi Cunningham: 3rdfloor
Mickael Kun: You Poor Monster
Ross Kaufman: Born Into Brothels
Jackie Milad: Transmodern Age
John Gartner: The Hypomanic Edge

ESSAYS (CITY PAPER)

Our Corsets, Our Selves: A Journey Through The Local Pinup Revival Scene
Where The Truth Lies: The Outsiders and The Moves Make The Man
Iron Men: Dr. Arnold Blumberg and the Geppi Entertainment Museum
The Cool Of Birth
Transmodern Age 2007
Things That Scare Us
Female Trouble: Transmodern Age 2006
The Berlin Stories
The Original Kings of Cinema
Exit The Dragon: Esther Wong
Super Eros

ESSAYS (BALTIMORE MAGAZINE)

Susan Posé: Sweet Success

ESSAYS (OPIUM MAGAZINE)

Grants Awarded to Cats
Olympic Hide and Seek

ESSAYS (URBANITE)

Gotham vs. Metropolis: What's Baltimore?
Encounter: E & S Discount in Highlandtown