DVD Review: Rock Bottom

Arriving at college, I learned rather fast that I’d been lied to over the years. Not by my former teachers or my parents, but by the local radio stations that swore they played only the best music there was. As I would roam the used records stores bordering the campus

Syd Mead Is Not Science Fiction

There’s a routine, but profoundly telling moment when many visitors complete their first walkthrough at Future Pastime, the exhibition of paintings by the visionary artist and visual futurist Syd Mead currently on display in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. “His outlook on the future is so positive. I thought Syd Mead was