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Books

FOG! Chats With ‘The Show Won’t Go On’ Authors Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns!

The new book, The Show Won’t Go On, is the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. Written by Jeff...

Stefan BlitzSeptember 6, 2019

Columns/Features

Five Years After My Father’s Death, A Talking Heads Song Gives Me Peace

It’s the first night in August, and I’m standing on the stage of my favorite bar, Troupe429 in Norwalk, CT. I’m dressed in a...

Marvin C. PittmanAugust 16, 2019

General

The 10 Best Death Scenes in Cinema

horror hor·ror | ˈhȯr-ər noun An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. Children screamed in horror. synonyms: terror, fear, fright, alarm, panic....

Kate DavisFebruary 24, 2016

General

David Bowie, Christmas, and A Shining Star in the Darkness

These past couple of weeks, more than usual, have been about music. So much music. For me, it’s inevitable come January. After five weeks...

Marvin C. PittmanJanuary 22, 2016

General

Relevance Not Rememberance

Written by Christopher Irving It’s August, 2012. My father had died just a month before and, between grieving and trying to be close to...

Stefan BlitzOctober 21, 2015

General

How CINDERELLA and STEVEN UNIVERSE Unleashed A Kind of Magic

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Those are Arthur C. Clarke’s words, the third of the science fiction author’s Three Laws of...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 2, 2015