The Silver Tongued Devil’s Last Ride

Kris Kristofferson casually performs the song "I'd Rather Be Sorry" on an acoustic guitar with Karen Black inside his apartment home studio.

| Matthew Tchepikova-Treon | Have you ever been hungover in church? That particular feeling is what Kris Kristofferson’s album The Silver Tongued Devil and I sounds like. Or it’s how I’d describe it anyway. Sweat, salvation, and self-loathing, but in a fun sorta way. Because by Sunday night you again remember… Continue reading

The Family Stone: How Sharon Stone’s Vision Shaped The Quick and the Dead

|Courtney Kowalke| Writing this piece made me confront the fact that I have a thing for cowboys.Not the lifestyle, not in practice—I hate feeling dusty, straw and most crop pollens make me sneezy, and I’ve been scared of horses since I was ten and one bit my hand while I was feeding it… Continue reading

The Masterpiece that Almost Was: The Quick and the Dead

|Ryan Sanderson| You’re Sharon Stone. Congratulations. You’ve just achieved massive stardom with Basic Instinct. Now Sony’s come knocking with a metatextual riff on Sergio Leone Westerns, the Clint Eastwood Man With No Name archetype written for a woman. You sign on… Continue reading