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: Urban History
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.
The flu appeared to be losing its grip on the city, suggesting that Fresno’s strict social distancing measures were bearing fruit.
While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat with Michigan State […]
The aesthetic terms of Socialist Realism are determined by the project’s ability to reflect a particular nation’s iteration of a socialist politics.
Historian Kristin Szylvian schools us about the forgotten history of mutual housing in America
Georgia State’s Kell Hall was a mystifying yet charmingly awful symbol of the university’s long ramp from the swamps to the stars.