I’m a fan of the AMC series Mad Men, which premiered its third season last night. The show has always occupied an awkward cultural space, both fetishizing and pathologizing its subjects: meticulously styled and artfully shot, it depicts a glossy, nostalgic vision of the early 1960s in America, but continually undermines that nostalgia, exposing the […] More »

When I first saw the original two-minute teaser trailer, above, for District 9, the new science-fiction movie coming out in August, it was a few months ago and the huge, out-of-control advertising campaign promoting it hadn’t yet blanketed every bus-stop and billboard in the country. Though the subsequent advertising has dulled my interest a bit, […] More »

In the second of our video series, you’ll hear Filipino-Canadian photojournalist Alex Felipe talk about visiting remote indigenous communities in the Philippines, to photograph the effects that gold mining has had on their communities. These photos and more are featured in Alex’s photoessay “All that Glitters” which is only in the November/December 2008 issue of […] More »