William B Pearlman

Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics and Culture

William Castle, director and producer of ridiculous B-movies, had a vision. He wanted to make every single one of his films into a spectacle event (much to the annoyance of theaters that booked his movies) that drew the masses to the cinema for the experience. Here are six of his most notorious gimmicks.

This Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to...

The Museum of the City Of New York just put out a compendium of the 400 most essential people in NYC's 400 year history. It's quite an inspiring list and one of the names on it is Patti Smith. On Thursday Patti is giving a talk on the poet William Blake at the Morgan Library.

This week’s interview is with Jeff Pearlman, a columnist for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and author of the new book Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty...

Hulu has announced a partnership to stream panels and other content from the annual William S. Paley Television Festival ... executive producer Steve Pearlman, Ginnifer Goodwin (Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White), Jennifer Morrison (Emma ...

Rebecca Ainley, Matthew Francis Baldino, Kennedy Taber Bassett, Connor William Bateson, Alec Beauchemin, Anne Beier, Jack Liam Benedict, Noelle Benson, Emily Rose Berube, Samuel Boland, Lindsay C. Brestovansky, Meaghan Brophy, Kathryn Butera ...