Today's Guest: Robert L. Wilkins, federal judge, United States Court of Appeals, author, Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Judge Robert L. Wilkins by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: A November 3, 1994 interview with two-time Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. (A few days after this was published in Creative Loafing/Tampa, Chiles defeated Jeb Bush to win his second term in office. Read Bob Andelman's companion interview with Bush here.) Welcoming Lawton Chiles, the incumbent Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, to... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Jeb Bush, candidate, Florida Governor (This Jeb Bush interview originally appeared in the November 3, 1994 issue of Creative Loafing/Tampa Bay, where it was paired with a separate conversation I had with then-Democratic incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles. Chiles landed the cover--and easily won re-election. Bush made another run at the job four years later and,... Continue Reading →
By Eric Deggans Ten years later, what Dan Rather still remembers with vivid clarity is how it all began: spotting a wisp of smoke wafting from the upper floors of the World Trade Center while getting ready for work. Soon after, Rather was dressed and climbing the stairs of the anchor desk at the center... Continue Reading →
Mr. Media is recorded live in the hometown of U.S. Senate candidate and Republican pariah Gov. Charlie Crist… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Like you, I have my own personal political beliefs. Mine are fairly middle of the road, not hard left, not hard right. I believe... Continue Reading →
Jesse Ventura sees conspiracies everywhere. He came to national prominence as a wrestler nicknamed “The Body,” took a turn on the silver screen in Predator with Ah-nuld, and even went by “Governor” for a term. Now he’s bidding for you and me to start thinking of him as “The Brain.” Don’t get me wrong;... Continue Reading →
Of the nine books I’ve written, it just occurred to me that the first and last have Pulitzer Prize connections—not for my work, unfortunately, but still… The last was Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, a biography of the American master artist and writer, which featured an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.... Continue Reading →
I think everyone remembers where they were when they first heard about the planes flying into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. For our generation, it’s that horrifying moment that matches up with when other generations remember the Kennedy assassination or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But where were you when the... Continue Reading →
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