Agustin Roberto “Bobby” Salcedo, an assistant principal and school board member in El Monte, California, was shot to death last week while spending the holidays in Mexico. As his family, his friends, and his city honor his memory, Michael Jaime-Becerra, an El Monte native who explores the city in his fiction, pays tribute to his long-time friend.
Twenty years ago today, “The Simpsons” debuted on Fox. Its hundreds of episodes since have made it one of the longest-running and most successful shows on television — highly rated and critically acclaimed. Below, an excerpt from Carl Matheson’s essay in The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer
On December 1, 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published the first volume of his immortal Fairy Tales. The initial reception across Europe was less than enthusiastic, but Andersen’s popularity gained momentum such that fairy tales like “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Princess and the Pea,” and “The Ugly Duckling” became canonized by the end of Andersen’s lifetime. Below, “The Saucy Boy,” one of the fairy tales published in Andersen’s first volume.
With its November 13, 1940, premiere at New York’s Broadway Theater, the Walt Disney film “Fantasia” opened to a considerable amount of criticism from those who protested the unconventional mixture of animation and high art. Disney had put together a 125-minute animated narrative set to classical music, from Bach to Stravinsky to Dukas, instead of [...]
On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip was published. Penned by Charles Schulz, the first strip foreshadowed all the strange, sad ordinariness that would come: two children watch Charlie Brown stroll by with a smile, call him “good ol’ Charlie Brown,” and as he passes, one frowns and says, “How I hate him!” Below, an excerpt from David Michaelis explores the the impact of the strip, particularly the antics of Snoopy in the 1960s.
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