ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: I watched all three of Nicholas Hoult's year-end movies. Plus Alex Segura's ALTER EGO and a chilling article on how Netflix movies are warping Hollywood. Link in the pinned tweet.

1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In The Nation, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Also selected to serve: Hedda Hopper's surviving hats and the ghost of Adolphe Menjou. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Crime fiction set in the LA of yesteryear and right now, from Scott Phillips and Nick Kolakowski. Plus a fantastic stripped-down mezcal cocktail, and other stuff. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-63-s…

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: Los Angeles skulduggery then (via Scott Phillips) and now (Nick Kolakowski), plus more stuff. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-63-s…

I may resurface every once in a while to post stories that make me think, "Jesus, these fucking people." wapo.st/4hKX6L1

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. I find a (tenuous) link between biographies of Johnny Carson and Dorothy Parker, watch a great documentary that you can't see (at least not the way I saw it), and catch up with a killer new crime film. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-64-c…

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: a baffling Johnny Carson bio, an illuminating one about Dorothy Parker, a (literally) singular Brian Eno documentary, and a kickass Belgian thriller. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-64-c…

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. It's February. I want to curl up and hide. So I'm not gonna do that. Notes on where I'll be in the next few weeks, mainly co-hosting Noir City Seattle, plus some new movies and a fine use of my favorite new coconut rum. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-65-f…

NEW NEWSLETTER COMING! Noir City Seattle returns, with us as cohosts! Academy Awards notes! And more! Subscribe and receive a free article on Edith Head's noir fashions! reneepatrickbooks.com

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: the movies we're introducing at Noir City Seattle, in conversation with Kate Alice Marshall, PRESENCE, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT, and my new favorite Negroni. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-65-f…

A spectacularly short-sighted move meant to bring "woke" universities to heal that will cripple American scientific research short-term and possibly long-term.