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Frederik Sisa, arts/entertainment/politics/culture: Resolved to use his powers of writing for good instead of evil, long-time contributor and assistant editor Frederik Sisa is The Front Page Online’s resident art critic as well as a political/cultural observer through his column The Recreational Nihilist. He also edits The Front Page Online's fashion blog The Fashionoclast. When not writing, he writes more, whether working as a marketing professional for a local architecture firm or feeding his blog. Want to drop him a line? Write to: fsisa@thefrontpageonline.com.
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Massaging the Medium with Marshall McLuhanBy Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM May 17, 2013Review of McLuhan for Beginners by W. Terrence Gordon, with illustrations by Susan Willmarth. A book like McLuhan for Beginners, then, is a timely wakeup call to take a moment and consider one of the 20th century’s foremost media and culture theorists even if that consideration reveals...read |
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Can Baggers Be Choosers?By Frederik Sisa @ 1:00 PM May 10, 2013[Editor’s Note: On Monday evening at 7, the City Council, meeting in Council Chambers at City Hall, will discuss a proposed ban on single-use plastic bags.] If nothing else, the proposed ban on plastic bags has ignited a much-needed public discussion on our environmental impact, with a focus on two issues: Public health and resource management. The most pressing question that arises is this: Do you wash your underwear?read |
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Science Fiction’s Forget-Me-NotBy Frederik Sisa @ 12:00 PM May 03, 2013Like Lucifer, only without the theological trappings of sin, Joseph Kosinski set out to bring some light into the normally dimly-lit visions of Hollywood science fiction. It’s a logical step. His work on Tron: Legacy was entirely rooted in the play of light on dark in an agile, design-driven cinematography of contrast.read |
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Oz the Mostly Great and, Surprisingly, PowerfulBy Frederik Sisa @ 5:00 PM March 29, 2013A review of Oz the Great and Powerful. I cannot say...that the renewed interest in the land of munchkins and yellow bricks road did anything to revise my rather lukewarm relationship to anything Oz-related.read |
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A Debate That’s Out of (Gun) Control, Part 2By Frederik Sisa @ 2:00 PM February 15, 2013Another understandable, albeit less reasonable, concern on the part of the gun lobby is the worry that arises from requiring universal background checks, an idea that strikes gun rights advocates like the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre as equivalent to a gun registry. If the government knows who has guns, the argument goes, they will know where to go to confiscate those guns. But let’s consider the conceptual difference between a universal background check and a gun registry.read |