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Generation MJ

By Dante A. Ciampaglia • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

When MJ died today, suddenly and of cardiac arrest at the age of 50, millions of people around the world began mourning the loss of their King of Pop while others were morbidly cheering the death of a child molester. For my generation of Americans, though, Jackson wasn’t just a tabloid joke. He was our childhood.



Iranian Election Fallout

By Dante A. Ciampaglia • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

As protesters take to the streets in Iran in the wake of recent elections, they are being met by government forces and violence in a despotic show of power by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.



Taken to the Mat

By Dante A. Ciampaglia • May 9th, 2009 • Category: Culture

The sordid world of pro wrestling.



The Ruins of a More Elegant Cinema

By Dante A. Ciampaglia • Feb 28th, 2009 • Category: Culture

Nowadays movie posters are banal, but they used to be sublime.



History Repeating

By Dante A. Ciampaglia • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Domestic

Forty-five years after the Kennedys fell, another person sounds similar themes and may finish what they started