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Wheelchair Sports Camp's Crip Life

If there were ever a moment for a queer, disabled rapper with a love for pot, jokes, and revolution to be a star, the moment is now

By Camille Dodero
Dec 8, 2011

Kalyn Heffernan is 24 years old, weighs 53 pounds, and measures three feet, six inches tall. She's light enough to carry, compact enough to hide under a winter coat, and is sometimes mistaken for a child. But Kalyn, who has the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta, is hardly innocent, precious, or...
Despite off-screen drama, the Tribe Called Quest documentary is phenomenal

By Camille Dodero
Jul 26, 2011

So much petty drama has clouded the release of Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest documentary. One version of the backstory casts the first-time director as a doofus actor wannabe (arguably best known for his role as Phoebe's boyfriend in Friends) who persuades the seminal, but privately splintered, hip-hop crew...
Anvil! The Story of Anvil

By Camille Dodero
Jun 4, 2009

And now for the story of Lips and the dildo. Back in the late '70s, before Guitar Hero III or Rock of Love 2 or even VH1, a jolly Canadian guitarist named Steve "Lips" Kudlow formed a thrash band with his high-school best friend, drummer Robb Reiner (no relation to...
Shine a Light

Scorsese and the Stones, together again.

By Camille Dodero
Apr 3, 2008

Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese: his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert film, Sir Mick is frozen in mid-song aerobics, his back arched, his half-shirt raised, that yawning navel and faint hairline more prominently showcased than his...
Kurt Cobain: About a Son

The voice of a generation talks like a regular guy in About a Son.

By Camille Dodero
Nov 1, 2007

Pity the fool hired to scribble the DVD-jacket copy for Kurt Cobain: About a Son: The film sounds horrific on paper. It's a 92-minute experimental documentary about the endlessly lionized "alternative" icon that doesn't include a guitar lick of his music, a testimonial from anyone personally acquainted with the man,...

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