The 2022 FIFA World Cup is underway, and teams from around the world are fighting for a chance at the final match. The 2018 finals saw France face off against Croatia, an underdog team who had the entire globe cheering them on in the hopes that France wouldn’t take home [...]
Before most people even had a chance to see it for themselves, writer-director Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” had already been chewed up and spit out by audiences targeting any major release that drums up even the slightest amount of controversy. From the moment insider sources dubbed the film as “unreleasable” in [...]
Mo Amer and Teresa Ruiz, the romantic duo at the center of Netflix’s newest original series “Mo,” have known for a long time that there are cultural parallels between them. Mo, who immigrated from Palestine, and Teresa, who immigrated from Mexico, are no strangers to the fact that, when all [...]
Pedro Correa and I were supposed to eat at Jack’s Wife Freda. When we arrived at the Williamsburg location, one that Correa says he’s already eaten at three times this week, it was impossible to find a table, let alone a quiet place to talk. After a short walk, we [...]
There are at least five operating gun stores in Uvalde, Texas, a small town that sits just 54 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. One of them, Oasis Outback, is a staple of the community and has been open for nearly two decades. According to the 2020 census, the population of [...]
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, sporting a mustache and a gray newsie cap, met with me last month over Zoom to talk about his starring role in the latest adaptation of “The Lincoln Lawyer.” The show was trapped in the worst kind of development hell for years before finding a home on Netflix. [...]
The final episodes of “Ozark” are upon us! On Friday, the final seven episodes of Netflix’s hit series landed on the platform, wrapping up a story marked by twists, turns, double-crosses, and deceit — a story that’s also happened to be one of the most enjoyable shows about “family business” [...]
A three-part series exploring the current state of South America’s “Lithium Triangle,” comprising Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. We explore the challenges each country faces in successfully mining and monetizing “The New Oil.” During an April 2022 visit to Argentina, his first visit abroad since he was elected president of Chile, [...]
A little over a year before Casey Anthony caught national attention in 2008 for allegedly murdering her young daughter Caylee, a woman named Melissa Lucio was fighting for her life in a Brownsville, Texas police interrogation room. Cameron County Sheriffs had accused Lucio of murdering her two-year-old daughter Mariah, the [...]
A three-part series exploring the current state of South America’s “Lithium Triangle,” comprising Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. We explore the challenges each country faces in successfully mining and monetizing “The New Oil.” The three countries inside South America’s Lithium Triangle represent a spectrum of success in extracting and commercializing the [...]