Sandy Witkow and John Greenberg are doing something incredible: they’re offering vernacular election coverage. I remember hearing them talk about their plans months ago when I was still living in Chicago and thinking too good to be true, not gonna happen. But they were serious, and they have worked hard to bring you the Pilsen Interactive […]

Fall is here and all those TV shows I had forgotten about enjoying are starting again. Looking for jobs can’t take up all the time in a day, so I find myself streaming pop culture into my house from Hulu.
The third season of Heroes premiered last night. Heroes is to X-Men what John Legend is […]

Here’s a fun little exercise: try to think of female movie and TV characters whose gender is an afterthought. Characters who matter-of-factly defy gender boundaries, whose sexuality is not a focus, who will be praised as “strong” rather than “strong for a female character.”
It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. We spent […]

My buddy posted about this interview with N’Gai Croal, and I found it fascinating. Here’s the background information: (1) Capcom released a trailer for the latest installment of Resident Evil, (2) the game takes place in either Africa or the Carribean, and has a white protagonist, (3) the trailer depicts a white man gunning down […]