Email Author Ernest Hardy

2002 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Truth or Consequences

  published December 26, 2002

  THE OPENING MOMENTS OF ANTWONE Fisher made my stomach sink in dread. A young, dark-skinned black boy stands in a sprawling green... More >>

• The Cute Ones

  published December 19, 2002

  To watch Justin Timberlake‘s video for his single ”Like I Love You“ is to fall through the looking glass of a certain crumbling-fac... More >>

• How Sweet It (Still) Is

  published November 21, 2002

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• Biggie & Tupac (remix)

  published October 10, 2002

  You can be the shit, flash the fattest five . . . Have the biggest dick, but when your shell get hit You ain't worth... More >>

• Sight and Sound

  published August 8, 2002

  By 1930, when Warner Bros. subsidiary Vitaphone Corp. finally stopped recording audio for the first talkies directly, and exclusively, onto... More >>

• Free Radicals

  published August 1, 2002

  ”People were allowed to live at the end of their imagination,“ says one of the talking heads in The Cockettes, a fascinating, richly detail... More >>

• So Much Things To Say

  published July 18, 2002

  The first sound out of Lauryn Hill’s mouth on her new, live Unplugged CD is laughter. She laughs often throughout the concert, riffing o... More >>

• Unplanned Obsolescence

  published July 18, 2002

  Around the time that Outfest was celebrating its 10th anniversary (give or take a year), gay-and-lesbian cinema was briefly, powerfully... More >>

• Back in the Day

  published May 30, 2002

  Masters at Work have a droll sense of humor. The title of their new CD is Our Time Is Coming, when the music contained within is so very much... More >>

• Fogtown and Ze Boys

  published May 16, 2002

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• Love in the Abstract

  published April 25, 2002

  Don‘t call it a mea culpa. On Amplified, his 1999 solo debut, Q-Tip wrapped himself in furs, video ho’s and the ill-gotten booty of a thousa... More >>

• All in the Family

  published March 14, 2002

  Mohsem Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar, released late last year, would have been a stirring and illuminating film had September 11 never happened. Th... More >>

• Turntablin’

  published March 7, 2002

  The hip-hop DJ who truly knows his shit is an endangered species, a victim of his medium‘s success. Your dot-com done got gone? Grab a... More >>

• Here and Now

  published February 28, 2002

  Last year, when writer-director Robert Guediguian‘s film The Town Is Quiet (La Ville Est Tranquille) played as part of the “City of Light... More >>

• Selling the Sun

  published February 21, 2002

  That clashes of tradition, religion and global economic policies weigh so heavily as subject matter in the films of this year’s Pan African Film ... More >>

• Small Place, Big Hurt

  published February 14, 2002

  Jamaica is so staggeringly beautiful that in Life and Debt, Stephanie Black‘s cool-headed but blistering indictment of globalization and th... More >>

• Real Enough

  published February 7, 2002

  JILL SCOTTExperience (Hidden Beach Recordings) Is she? The real deal, that is. Or have our standards been lowered so... More >>

• Trash TV, Obsessive Love and Colette

  published January 24, 2002

  It’s been eight years since local boy Richard Glatzer performed the alchemic feat of turning his stint as a producer on television... More >>

• On and Off Our Backs

  published January 24, 2002

  Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t have? The question serves as full-stop punctuation to Richard Glatzer and Wash West‘s film T... More >>