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The largest individual taxpayer in U.S. history, Elon Musk, becoming a “trillionaire”—at least on paper—has caused a wave of panic among the Democrats in Washington, D.C. Upon learning that the man he's called a “right-wing extremist” had reached that “dangerous” financial status after deciding to take SpaceX public, Bernie Sanders said, “Our democracy cannot survive when one...

Michael Heizer: I saw a giant projection on the Playboy Club on the Sunset Strip a couple years later, some big bunny up on the wall.

Richard Serra: There was an aspect of unpretentious, indigenous American poetry that was difficult to deny, and it spoke so directly that I was moved by the people who were making it, and by the images that were brought forth.

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It’s not often that a filmmaker has two new films released in one year. Ridley Scott and Clint Eastwood pulled this off when their names meant automatic greenlights, but it's rare for an up-and-coming director. Chandler Levack has experience as a short film creator, journalist, and freelance prose writer. Levack’s new film Mile End Kicks isn’t technically a semi-autobi...

John Early’s Maddie’s Secret is a movie that shouldn’t have worked. It’s a John Waters homage, and almost everybody in the cast has been associated with comedy for their whole careers. But despite some laughs here and there, it’s not a pure comedy, and it gets dark at points.

Maddie’s Secret is simultaneously a satire of the Douglas Sirk melodramas of th...

Daisy was the only friend of mine who’d been in the Hitler Youth. Her formal name was Hannelore, and she’d grown up in Hanover, Germany. She said she’d attended the required meetings resentfully, which I don’t doubt. After the war, she worked for the Allied Occupation, meeting a British military officer with whom she fell in love and got married. They moved to the US, and I k...