film Coming soon from filmmaker Case Esparros: "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Mister Dobo
News Elementary school investigates custodian who dressed as a creepy clown and photographed himself in the building after hours David Pescovitz
law Alec Baldwin likely to be recharged with manslaughter after tests on gun suggest trigger was pulled Rob Beschizza
art A documentary about Juan Tamariz, the greatest magician alive you've never heard of Ferdinando Buscema
movies Freezing sets, pea soup projectile vomiting, gunshots, and other secrets behind William Friedkin's The Exorcist David Pescovitz
Ask a Mexican Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin
uk A Titan sub documentary has already aired and viewers had 'uneasy reactions': 'Too soon' Rusty Blazenhoff
censorship Criterion Channel under fire for unexplained edit in "The French Connection" Mark Frauenfelder
racism Dhoruba Bin Wahad was jailed for 19 years in the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO project Elías Villoro
movies A look back at 1998's Wild Things, "increasingly appreciated as a slice of wanton sleaze" Mark Frauenfelder