(Movies.com – July 19, 2011) Comic-Con is almost here, and while the thought of everything that will happen during the four-day event can make even the most hardened journalist break down in tears, there’s a good reason why it’s one of the biggest pop-culture events of the year: it can actually be a lot of [...]

The U.S. Army invaded Albany last weekend, but critics contend that the military had orders to recruit, not to educate (Metroland – September 30, 2004) Acid-rock and synthetic fog filled the Pepsi Arena Friday morning as green lights swept the floor and video screens taller than most homes flashed grainy images of helicopters unloading human [...]

In which a Metroland reporter strides confidently into the Republicans’ midst, and is forced to toast George W. Bush in order to make it out alive (Metroland – September 2, 2004) I’m in a bar on 33rd Street with Beverly and Hannah, operations assistants for the Republican National Convention, and I just toasted the notion [...]

A recent film festival proves that, like a flesh-eating zombie, the local indie horror scene refuses to die (Metroland – February 3, 2005) Lesson number one for aspiring fright-film auteurs: When it comes to creating a bloated corpse sans Hollywood budget, pay attention to the little things, or else you just might start to resemble [...]