Minnesota Hardcore
Twin Cities PBS has a swell series on punk history in Minnesota. You can watch it here. And while you are there, check out their documentary, Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis: The Baldies!
Henry Ford meets Jim Henson: “The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited”
I heard industrial pa-chunking before I even entered the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Across the street from the museum is the Ford Development Center, where Ford Motor Company does research on new vehicles and “mobility solutions.” The center first opened in 1953 and was designed by […]
“The Voice behind Samurai Jack”
Friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando interviews Phil LaMarr about the new run of Samurai Jack. “The wait is finally over. After 13 years “Samurai Jack” is back for his fifth and final season and I speak with Phil LaMarr, the voice actor who has brought Jack to […]
“Auto Sketches from Detroit’s Golden Era You were Never Meant to See”
PBS’ Newshour has a gallery of Norbert Ostrowski’s amazing automotive design sketches from 1946 to 1973. “The designs were never meant to leave the studios. Automakers routinely destroyed early sketches for fear they would fall into the wrong hands. But some of them made their way out of […]
Interview with John Waters
Friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando interviews John Waters for KPBS: “With his pencil thin mustache and skinny suits, Waters is a pop culture icon as famous as his films. But at the moment, he’s not finding the financial backing to make another movie so he has simply […]
Thoughts on Trolls
At PBS Idea Channel, Mike considers and then reconsiders the beneficial effects of trolls. At Kill Screen, Matthew Byrd writes about the integration of trolling into a multiplayer online gaming experience, particularly with DayZ and Demon’s Soul. (Thanks, Edie!)
The Cultural Gutter 