Gateways To Geekery

  • Gateways To Geekery There’s more to Russ Meyer’s films than breasts, though those are pretty important

    Exploring the sometimes-sexy, always-weird work of a breast fetishist with a gift for filmmaking. 

    May 24, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery ’90s electronica

    Exploring the ’90s acts that came this close to taking electronic music to the mainstream. 

    May 10, 2012 | 1:30pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Love the Avengers movie? Here’s where to start reading the comics

    Where to start reading the adventures of The Avengers. 

    May 4, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Gateways To Geekery Exploring Steven Moffat's work on Sherlock, Doctor Who, Coupling, and beyond

    Delving into the work of one British television’s sharpest talents. 

    May 3, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Exploring the work of Richard Lester, who did more than make The Beatles movie stars

    Richard Lester made The Beatles into movie stars, but didn’t stop there. 

    April 19, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery The Velvet Underground 

    Where to start with the band that changed everything. 

    April 12, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Where to start with vaudeville-metal pioneer Alice Cooper

    Digging into the dozens of shock-and-awe albums by the vaudeville-metal pioneer. 

    April 5, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Britpop 

    Exploring a time when British pop was the biggest (no, not that time).

    March 29, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Luchino Visconti 

    Was the Italian nobleman/filmmaker more than, as Salvador Dali called him, “a Communist who likes only luxury”? 

    March 22, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Old-time radio

    Exploring the rich world of radio’s golden age.

    March 15, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Steely Dan

    Steely Dan’s sophisticated façade and epic mean streak seem engineered to keep the outsiders out and the insiders way in. Don’t let that stop you.

    March 8, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Orson Scott Card

    The prolific Mormon science-fiction author has a reputation as a homophobe. Where to start reading his books, and is it worth the effort?

    March 1, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery New Wave of British Heavy Metal

    They came out of the UK to change metal forever. (Then a lot of them disappeared.) 

    February 23, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Elephant 6 

    Shedding some light on the sprawling collective that tried to make the sounds of the Summer Of Love last forever. 

    February 16, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Graphic adventure games

    Ready to manage your inventory as you make life-and-death, story-altering choices? Here’s where you begin.

    January 26, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery SST Records

    A beginner’s guide to SST Records, which profoundly reshaped the sound of the ’80s underground.

    January 12, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Dystopian science-fiction films of the 1970s 

    Science fiction from an era when the future looked grim, even in fantasy. 

    January 5, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery The Adventures Of Tintin 

    Some homework before you see the Spielberg movie. 

    December 22, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Madchester 

    It had a clunky name and questionable offshoots, but this music scene played a huge role in the UK at the dawn of the alternative era. 

    December 1, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery The Monkees

    A pre-fabricated band has a musical legacy beyond the familiar hits.

    November 17, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Terry Pratchett novels 

    There are 39 novels in the bestselling Discworld series. Which one to start with? 

    November 10, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery British folk-rock

    Exploring the hybrid created by crossbreeding new rock sounds and British tradition.

    November 3, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Giallo 

    Exploring the lurid, violent, colorful world of Italian thrillers. 

    October 20, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery The Wainwright/McGarrigle clan

    What happens when a family of singer-songwriters falls apart? A lot of songs get written.

    October 6, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Nick Cave 

    His career spans more than three decades, four bands, numerous collaborations, and even film scores. Where to begin when there’s so much to choose from? 

    September 22, 2011 | 11:58am -

  • Gateways To Geekery Mystery Science Theater 3000 

    In the not-so-distant past, robots and men mocked movies without mercy. 

    September 15, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Oi! 

    Why an oft-misunderstood offshoot of punk deserves some respect.

    September 8, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Beat poetry 

    There’s more to it than goatees and snapping fingers. 

    August 24, 2011 | 11:59pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Frank Tashlin

    He created live-action cartoons out of 1950s obsessions. Where to start with one of Hollywood’s greatest satirists.

    August 11, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Gateways To Geekery Ween

    Often dismissed as a novelty act, Ween has a deep, impressively varied catalogue that goes beyond silly shtick. So where should you start?

    August 4, 2011 | 12:00pm -