The Day the Earth Stood Still

I never heard Martin Luther King Jr. give his speech on the mall. I can't tell you where I was when John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. Nor can I recount the story of how I crowded around a television to watch Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon. But …

Bright Lights, My City

“If you imagine an ordinary moment at an intersection of New York City, and there’s a pause at a street light and some people are stopped and others are in motion….if you were to put that into film terms and a freeze frame and hold everything for a second you would realize that there’s a …