Lately, cable television stations have eased up on their restrictions of swearing, adopting the word “bitch” as common vocabulary and allowing the occasional S-bomb to slip—but it wasn’t always this way. According to Vulture’s latest “Secret History of Television” episode, it wasn’t until South Park’s well-received “It Hits the Fan” episode in 2001—where the word “shit” is proclaimed a record 200 times—that the Federal Communications …
There have been many award-winning films covering black public figures over the past decade—”Selma,” “Get On Up,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The Butler”—and they’ve all been about men. HBO’s latest release “Bessie”—which follows the life of blues legend Bessie Smith—finally adds a leading lady to the list. Slate calls the movie “probably the boldest and most revealing biopic [about a black woman], offering a side …
Cult web series “High Maintenance,” created and written by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, stars the latter as your go-to marijuana dealer; each episode centers on a different customer and their personal (if on the verge of neurotic) life in New York City. Full of “pot” twists, comedic laughs and poignant feels, High Maintenance also features great, under-the-radar music from indie artists such as Connan …
