Brendan Bures
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Guys Are Paying $10,000 to Become Real Men at Warrior Camps
“You’re not allowed to be a man anymore, you’re almost a racist if you’re a man these days. It’s crazy.” → Read More
Beto O’Rourke, Border Walls and the Shifting Reality of What It Means to Be Texan
The documentaries 'Running With Beto,' 'The River and the Wall' and 'Ernie & Joe' challenge our impressions of Texas as a tried-and-true red state teeming with nothing but conservatives and cowboys, implying that a sensibility diverse in thought and opinion is surging. → Read More
‘Screwball’ Director Billy Corben on the Miami Doping Scandal That Nearly Killed A-Rod’s Career
Billy Corben’s new documentary, ‘Screwball,’ is the tale of a coke-addicted fake Miami doctor, his fake-tan-addicted steroid patient and the doping scandal that shook the MLB. → Read More
Harmony Korine Went Through Hell to Discover A Little Piece of Heaven
Always comfortable playing the iconoclast, Harmony Korine has turned all his wild energies on himself. The filmmaker’s latest, ‘The Beach Bum,’ might just be his masterpiece. → Read More
The Underground Marijuana Doctors of Texas
When patients are desperate for cannabis, they turn to a married couple who have quietly built an illegal business. → Read More
The Underground Marijuana Doctors of Texas
When patients are desperate for cannabis, they turn to a married couple who have quietly built an illegal business. → Read More
The Secret, Troubled History of ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’
Brent Hodge’s latest documentary, 'Who Let The Dogs Out?,' dares to answer just who’s responsible for letting the dogs out by diving into the secret history of the most overwrought and overplayed novelty pop hit of the 2000s. → Read More
Why ‘Survivor,’ Our Last Middlebrow Cultural Artifact, Is More Vital Than Ever Before
As a still-thriving relic from 2000, reality TV series 'Survivor' derives an almost subversive quality because of how much TV trends and technologies have changed around the show. Its 38th season 'Survivor: Edge of Extinction' premieres on CBS Wednesday, February 20, 2019. → Read More
It’s Official: Weed’s Not Cool Anymore
Pot was once so dangerously cool, the youth’s drug of choice, but the idea of marijuana as civil disobedience is dying, thanks to cannabis legalization. So what does cannabis as a culture, a lifestyle, a way of being, represent now? Do kids even consider pot all that cool anymore? Does anyone? → Read More
Measly Crowds Rally for Gun Rights Across America in Response to March for Our Lives
Hundreds gathered at the statehouses, annoyed by the ability of the Parkland students to draw bigger crowds and worried that the momentum is on the other side. → Read More
Austin Bomber Mark Conditt Confessed Hours Before Blowing Himself Up, Police Say
Neighbors said he was a nice kid from a good family. Police say they ID’d him after he sent two parcel bombs via FedEx. No one can say why he did it. → Read More
‘Do the Right Thing’ — remixed
The original poster for Spike Lee’s 1989 Do the Right Thing is in many ways a narrative trap. On opposite sides stand Sal and Mookie, white and black, business … → Read More
Here's What Happens When You Face Trial by Twitter
Pop singer Kesha isn't the only one whose case has played out on social media. → Read More