Email Author Peter Breslin

2007 Stories by Peter Breslin

• Black Comedy

  published December 27, 2007

  You know what’s great about America? Well, for one, superfunny black comedians. From Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor to Eddie Murphy and Dave... More >>

• Pushing 'Toon

  published December 13, 2007

  Tony Carrillo used to push tin -- you know, those tarmac hustlers who use the little orange sticks, waving in planes after landing. You’d... More >>

• The Glass Menagerie

  published November 29, 2007

  Unless they spew right-wing propaganda, mind-numbing sports analysis, or shock-jock talk à la Howard Stern, it’s hard for radio... More >>

• Requiem for a Dreampunk

  published November 22, 2007

  In addition to being populated by dancing skeletons and severed heads, the artwork of Daniel Martin Diaz contains a surprisingly... More >>

• Hi, Robot

  published November 8, 2007

  Hillary Rodham Clinton is pilloried regularly by dittoheads and the endlessly fulminating drones on Fox News, but the vast left-wing conspiracy... More >>

• Raggedy Annie

  published November 1, 2007

  During a 1975 interview with Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a prime mover and shaker in the American Indian Movement (AIM), the outspoken activist... More >>

• Speaking in Tongue-Twisters

  published October 25, 2007

  War isn’t only hell, it’s also layered with ironies. Take the tiny hunk of Japanese rock invaded by the U.S. during the 1945 Battle of... More >>

• Kill Mill Volume 3

  published October 18, 2007

  Light-rail construction, deteriorating inflatable rubber dams, and a vice mayor named Hut. Tempe can sometimes lean to the frightening side. Now... More >>

• For All Nam Kind

  published October 18, 2007

  The downside of being Vietnam, Southeast Asia’s Grand Central Station: centuries of Chinese, Portuguese, French, and American boot prints... More >>

• Rebel With a Cause

  published October 11, 2007

  Think suburban high school cheerleaders and what comes to mind? Girls Gone Wild contestants. Competitive, Nancy Kerrigan-esque freaks in... More >>

• Prints Charming

  published October 11, 2007

  On the surface, printmaking is one of the less glamorous stepchildren of the visual arts. Sure, it’s a discipline combining technical craft... More >>

• Shoe and Tell

  published October 4, 2007

  Free marathon training. A 3.5-mile run/walk. Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter on hand (foot?) modeling peak-performance strategies. It... More >>

• Native Uprising

  published October 4, 2007

  A friend calls the stereotypical Native American art peddled in the Southwest and around the world -- normally a large canvas with pastels, a... More >>

• Ace Software

  published September 20, 2007

  Boom! Madden NFL rules! Need proof? Follow the EA Sports Madden online forums -- 563 pages and hundreds of thousands of posts... More >>

• So, Six Comedians Walk Into a Bar . . .

  published September 20, 2007

  Young American Comedy Tour. Dull name, granted, but the sextet of comics tore up the Improv when they pulled a one-night stand there last... More >>

• Ciao Fun

  published September 13, 2007

  French novelist Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was so overwhelmed by Florence, Italy, that he reported: "I felt a pulsating in my heart. Life was... More >>

• The Kid Lit Stays in the Picture

  published September 6, 2007

  Think Winnie-the-Pooh, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Alice Through the Looking Glass. What leaps into your warm-and-fuzzy memory... More >>

• Dias de las Muertas

  published August 30, 2007

  Certain cities conjure thoughts of death, but at least, according to Ray Nagin, the big-mouth Big Easy mayor, "it keeps the brand out... More >>