by Devin Pike | 20 Dec 2016 | Life In A Southern Town
So many of my Christmas memories are inexorably bound to my grandmother’s house. The primary place my family celebrated the holiday was there, along with dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. The dinner and gift exchange were always the centerpiece, but there...
by Devin Pike | 22 Nov 2016 | Life In A Southern Town
I’ve been trying for the last hour to write something appropriate for Scott Eric Kaufman. Nothing works, however. Nothing fits. I want him to be on the other end of a Facebook instant message, so I could bounce ideas off him for the perfect lead. I did that, off and...
by Devin Pike | 11 Jan 2016 | Stage, Screen and Sound
The most ridiculous thing about the way I found out about David Bowie’s death was the first notice, where a notorious death hoax site published a note saying not that he had passed, but that it was a hoax that he had died. Instead, we learned within the hour that the...
by Devin Pike | 12 Dec 2015 | Life In A Southern Town
If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know of my absolute aversion to Andy Williams’ holiday classic song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.” What you might not know, however, is the story of why I break out in hives at the first notes of the song. In...
by Devin Pike | 1 Dec 2015 | Stage, Screen and Sound
My last regular writing gig was for a site I co-founded called Red Carpet Crash, in 2009. In the three years I wrote for the site as its editor, I did hundreds of interviews, but the one I enjoyed the most was in the environment I liked the least: the roundtable...
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