A Virtuoso You’ve Never Heard Of
He was B. B. King’s “favorite new guitarist” in 1970 *(according to the 1970 issue of Guitar Player magazine via Wikipedia). And most people have never heard his name. James Wilson, … Read more
Paint Me a Road Out of Here
What happens when a legendary Black artist paints freedom onto the walls of Rikers Island—and the system tries to bury it? I first saw the story on Colossal, which highlighted … Read more
Hanging by a Wire
Two steel cables snap and eight people hang 900 feet above a rocky gorge in the Himilayas. And the last cable is fraying. I found out about this one on … Read more
The Alabama Solution
In Alabama, inmates say this prison is built on violence, forced labor, and cover-ups. And they risk their lives to prove it. Hugh Scott from CinemaBlend listed this as one … Read more
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
He released just one studio album before drowning in the Wolf River in Memphis on May 29, 1997…at 30 years old. But his hauntingly beautiful sounds seem to live on … Read more
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
What do Ray Charles, Aretha, Clapton, The Allmans, and Lynyrd Skynyrd all have in common? Tom Dowd. Atlantic Records ran through his hands. Jeff Giles at Ultimate Classic Rock recommended … Read more
The PriceMaster
I’ll never look at a garage sale the same again. The PriceMaster never negotiates. Chris LaSalle shared this one with my colleague Rob Kelly. He found it through Austin Kleon’s … Read more
Earthlings
If you’ve ever posted a cute dog video while biting into a burger, this doc might make that scroll feel very different. Joaquin Phoenix narrates. We first noticed “Earthlings” in … Read more
Bo Burnham: Inside
Just one man, one guest house in Los Angeles, and six months of COVID lockdown. What starts as comedy slowly turns into something much heavier. Rex Woodbury of Digital Native … Read more