by Jack Brown | Apr 1, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
All of us, at some point or another, have a teacher who makes a difference. Maybe it’s just that we cross paths at the right moment, or maybe it’s just that he or she is that damn good at what they do, but the right teacher at the right time can change a person’s path...
by Jack Brown | Mar 24, 2015 | Arts, Blogs, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Everyone with a go-to Chinese take-out joint is sure of one thing: theirs is the best. It’s a partisan game on a par with Left vs. Right or The Beatles vs. The Stones — I once witnessed, on a Brooklyn street corner, a heated argument about the neighborhood’s best...
by Jack Brown | Mar 18, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
During the waves of police brutality protests that rolled across the nation this last half-year, there were any number of arresting images: protestors pouring milk in their eyes to counteract the tear gas used to disperse crowds; a highway patrolman leading a peaceful...
by Jack Brown | Mar 10, 2015 | Cinemadope, Film
At long, long, last, I can finally announce: this is the last Cinemadope column of this long, long winter. Next week, spring will be upon us, at least by the calendar, and we can all begin to forget the frigid and snowbound Sartre play that this winter has been. To...
by Jack Brown | Mar 3, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
I’m not sure exactly when it was that I realized that my mom wasn’t quite like most of the other moms in our neighborhood. And from the outside, at least when I was still a boy, maybe she didn’t strike others as different, either: husband, two kids, house, a station...
