In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
Category Archive: suburbanization
Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.
Stan Thangaraj on the city and the communities he loves, in an ocean of tragedy.
No film genre in Hollywood’s golden age was more urban to its core than noir. The word conjures […]
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “racial inequality in America?” For many, images of the […]
Cities are “back,” as you might have heard, following a long period when urban America was viewed by fearful […]
“[T]he idea that movies and stars inspire people from the world’s pockets of desperate poverty to undertake treacherous […]
“It’s a system that’s maybe safe, somewhat unreliable, and that is being complained about by everybody,” – Jack […]