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Major Garland Briggs. Twin Peaks S01E04 - Rest in Pain.

Twin Peaks: Major Garland Briggs.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Our little reading group on Janet Malcolm's work at the Center for Fiction starts next week. No big requirements, just talking about subjectivity and celebrity portraiture and all kinds of things over a few weeks in the fall. Join us?
centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

Would the world be in a better place if everyone referred to him as Drumf?

What Makes a Review Great - Five Things I've Learned Join me in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about shaping my voice and perspective in support the art I love. My name is Alissa Wilkinson, and I’m an author, a prof...

And then on Sunday, November 2, at 8pm EST, I'll be teaching a LIVE online two-hour masterclass on what I've learned about what makes a review great. Please do register for that early (and you can get the recording too!)
myfivethings.com/class/alissa...

Starting this Sunday afternoon, I'll be once again teaching my 8-week workshop on the review as creative writing at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. This is the third time I've taught it and we always have a good time. There are a few spots left as of today. centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope.

Might go and hang around with my friends from Pandora this evening. I’m a sucker for stuff shot in 3D. Add in HFR? Baby, you’ve got a stew going.

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In the Mood for Clues | Bright Wall/Dark Room I’m drawn to Clue and In the Mood for Love, two movies that probably couldn’t be more different, because in both, characters use storytelling to investigate their cratered lives.

"I find myself drawn to CLUE and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE—two movies that probably couldn’t be more different—because in both, the characters use storytelling to investigate their cratered lives."

Film journalism in 2025.

Cooper Hoffman. Mark Hamill. The Long Walk. What a picture

Alien: Earth Clings to Childish Things In throwing out Ridley Scott’s prequel mythology to engineer a “parallel story,” Noah Hawley’s series was deprived of the chance to grow up.

This is pretty great on Alien:

www.vulture.com/article/alie...

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Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Our Reporter Takes the Cheapest Legal Mushroom Trip in Town Anthony Effinger

A voyage inward, via the cheapest legal mushroom therapy in Oregon.

Image of an Irish Coffee in a dimly lit Irish pub in Portland, Oregon

Celebrating at The Moon and Six Pence

I saw a 35mm print of Nymphs(Anonymous) at the Hollywood Theater today and it’s been one of my greatest moviegoing experiences ever.

Reposting for the night crowd. This is really about how Redford knew, and threw himself into, the power of platforming independent art.

As an Activist, Robert Redford Understood the Power of Celebrity

My appreciation of Robert Redford, the star of THE CANDIDATE, who knew the power of the camera and tried to turn it in the right direction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

It's not an overstatement to say that through Sundance -- festival, Institute, the whole thing -- Redford pretty much changed the trajectory of my life, and I'm profoundly grateful.

Redford's life was long, as was his career, which began on Broadway and in NY-based TV 65 years ago. But when I woke up to the news of his loss, I gasped. It felt like a face had fallen from Mount Rushmore--although if anyone had tried to carve him into a mountainside, he'd have led the protest.

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Ok so when are the Quiz Show screenings?

Opening day of Martin Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS, 9/13/85

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Gonna start pronouncing it Port Land instead of Portlund. Let’s see if it catches on

The best (& also, the most entertaining, scary, wild, darkly funny, sharply argued & boldly written) book on this subject is Black Pill by Elle Reeves. She nails the chaotic right-wing edgelord landscape in a way no other writer has, the psychology and sexuality of it, not just the ideology

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Tickets for the 70mm screening of the new PTA at Hollywood Theater have been Aqua Red. Ackyoured. Accerred