The Most Beautiful Fraud: Nightmare Alley

Judging a movie by its potential is probably skirting the edge of fairness, but the creepy 1947 carnival-noir Nightmare Alley tempts pretty strongly in that direction.  The feeling it finally leaves you with is an unsatisfying one, both in the way it frequently opens up possibilities it doesn’t quite live …

The Sandwich Century: Prelimiwow

Along with all the other exciting and annoying content to hit this site in 2011, I am getting ready to kick off a special feature called The Sandwich Century.  Over the course of the year, I will prepare, consume, and document a hundred different sandwiches, and you will follow it …