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April 22, 2021

Music

The 50 Greatest Hip Hop Albums of All Time

The Notorious BIG- Ready to Die (1994) Around the years ’87-’88, a young crack dealer named Christopher Wallace began entertaining local passersby by rapping into a beat-up amp on the street corners around Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Six [...]
Movies

The 10 Greatest Modern Writer/Directors

Joel and Ethan Coen: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Inside Llewyn Davis, Bridge of Spies, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple. Woody Allen: Midnight in [...]
Music

The 50 Greatest Gone Solo Artists

Ok, so straight off the bat, that title doesn’t quite do it. What I should have said is “The 50 Greatest Artists Whose Solo Careers Rival the Success of the Groups That Brought Them To [...]
Television

The 30 Greatest Saturday Night Live Cast Members

The thirty greatest alumni of Saturday Night Live. Ranking are a combination of equal parts time spent on the show and subsequent career. Will Ferrell (1995 – 2002) Signature sketches: Celebrity Jeopardy, More Cowbell, W. [...]
Television

The Greatest Modern Television Shows

Couple ground rules. For starters, we’ll be using 2000 as the demarcation line for what should be considered modern. This seemed like a natural cutoff point, as premium TV was emerging and the medium was [...]