Banned in the District: New Bad Brains
Local news in Washington, D. C. has a story about newly uncovered music from seminal punk band, Bad Brains. The story includes brief interviews and footage of Bad Brains performing. Watch here.
Just One More Thing… Or Two or Three: Some Thoughts on The Residence, Elsbeth, and Poker Face
Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
“Dadlands 2: Into the Corn Hole!”
The Adventure Zone returns to the postapocalyptic waste of the Dadlands. “Live from Washington, DC, the Dads are BACK! Game Mom Brennan Lee Mulligan returns to continue this rowdy dad-venture with even more dad jokes, dangers, and complicated mechanics.” Listen here.
This is the Way the World Ends, Not with a Bang but a Meme
This week’s Guest Star Robert Aaron Mitchell a writer, blogger, videographer, and journalist. You can read his work at his Soldier of Cinema blog.. His short films and interviews with filmmakers and actors from George Romero to Iko Uwais and Jason Momoa to Jamie Lee Curtis an be […]
“Pioneering Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Joins a Pantheon of Futurists”
“[Octavia] Butler is one of the futurists who will be honored in the Smithsonian’s expansive ‘Futures’ exhibition, which will mark the Institution’s 175th anniversary and will debut in the Arts and Industries Building late this year.” More about Butler, her career, Afrofuturism and the Futures exhibit at the […]
WJSV, Washington
“Thursday, September 21st, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C., recorded their entire broadcast day — from sign on, to sign off.” You can listen at The Internet Archive. (via @SteveSilberman)
The Cultural Gutter 