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The Lasting Significance of Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER

November 24, 2024/by Jeffrey Ian Ross

From Robert De Niro’s masterful performance, to its influence on the neo-noir genre of filmmaking, few movies in American cinematic history have been as lauded as much as Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. The Descent of Travis Bickel Taxi Driver (1976) tells the story of Travis Bickel (Robert De Niro), a 20-something alienated and psychologically troubled […]

Subway Platforms, Serendipity, and the Power of Chance Encounters

November 17, 2024/by Jeffrey Ian Ross

What do Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz, and Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe all have in common? Not only are they well-respected  artists, musicians, photographers, and poets, with partnerships that led to a considerable body of impactful work, but their initial introduction was through a random encounter on a subway […]

Anti-Musk Graffiti & Street Art as a Rejection of Power, Capitalism, and Celebrity

November 10, 2024/by Jeffrey Ian Ross

Over the past two decades, tech billionaire Elon Musk—pivotal in the creation of PayPal, and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, as well as owner of Twitter (now X)—has been both lavishly praised and sharply criticized. Many tech aficionados, consider Musk to be a genius and similar to the Starship Enterprise, in the television series […]

How to Respond in These Uncertain Times

November 3, 2024/by Jeffrey Ian Ross

In the next few days (Tuesday, November 5), the United States faces one of the most consequential elections in its 248-year history. Should Kamala Harris win, Donald Trump and his MAGA loyalists are unlikely to concede peacefully. Trump and his Republican supporters have made it clear, and his followers expect him to challenge unfavorable results—not […]

Eleven Reasons Why Criminal Justice Practitioners Should NOT Vote for Trump in 2024

October 27, 2024/by Jeffrey Ian Ross

In the United States, most law enforcement, corrections, probation, and parole officers typically have conservative beliefs and tend to vote for Republican political candidates. Why? It’s mainly because of the party’s focus on law and order, support of criminal justice funding, and tougher crime policies. But this upcoming presidential election (Tuesday November 5, 2024), most […]

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