Ah, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” a classic tale of greed, paranoia, and the corrupting influence of gold. This 1948 gem follows the adventures of three down-on-their-luck Americans as they seek their fortune in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. Directed by the legendary John Huston and starring the incomparable Humphrey Bogart, this…
Patti Smith’s “Horses”: When Poetry Slams Into Rock and Both Lose the Fight Look, I get it. It’s 1975, and you’re at some Greenwich Village cafĂ© where everyone’s wearing black turtlenecks and debating whether a urinal in a museum is the pinnacle of artistic achievement. Someone puts on Patti Smith’s “Horses,” and suddenly everyone’s nodding…