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 [...]
Though we were originally supposed to meet at his office in Mott Haven, director Fred ‘Focus‘ Lavergne and I ended up talking at his Bronx apartment, a modest, minimalist duplex. Lavergne, who is Dominican and Black, is the CEO of Spacedog, a production company most well-known for directing Nike’s Air [...]
Sony Entertainment is eager to get into the extended universe game. The company behind Sam Raimi’s hugely successful trilogy and Marc Webb’s less successful duology of “Spider-Man” films is in the midst of developing what they’ve dubbed the Sony Spider-Man Universe, or the SSSU. It doesn’t roll off the tongue [...]
Through the last half-decade of superhero filmmaking, the reliable formula that made the initial MCU films so wildly successful has given way to an insatiable appetite for superheroes in a wide variety of genres – comedy, horror, western, or otherwise. The key takeaway is that superhero movies are gritty now. [...]