Post No Ills...An American Review of Reviews

Cool Young History: Lupe Fiasco

Published in November 2nd, 2008

Posted by editor in Commentary, Music Reviews, Quick Hits

by Miles Marshall Lewis The world has a little while longer to wait for the end of Lupe Fiasco. The twenty-six-year-old Chicago MC—born Wasulu Muhammad Jaco—has declared way in advance that his delayed third album, LUPN, will most likely be his last. Hiphop has heard this kind of talk before. But Lupe pulling the plug [...]

Looking into Spike Lee’s MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA: A Film Review by Max Lipset

Published in October 12th, 2008

Posted by editor in Film, Quick Hits

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[Film listing on IMDB.com] “We were there, too,” Corporal Hector Negron grunts at the television screen. This statement of truth defines the center of Lee’s epic new film. Miracle at St. Anna opens in a Brooklyn apartment, with an elderly Negron watching a John Wayne WWII-film. It is 1983, Christmas time, but Negron’s mood is [...]