Joe Donnelly

Election '08: All Dressed Up With No Riot To Go To

Joe Donnelly
So, I was walking down the 16th Street Mall in Denver after (think Fourth Street Mall in Santa Monica, only a little bigger and a little less cheesy), taking in all the civic life, or such as it is in the USA, which consisted of lots of people dining out......

Election '08: Penetrating the Matrix

Joe Donnelly
The Pepsi Center, where much of the Democratic National Convention is going down, is situated in an area of Denver called Lo-Do (lower downtown). It's one of those loft-conversion, yuppie makeovers that Los Angeles is hoping like hell will happen in downtown LA, especially around Staples Center. It looks like......

Visions of Obamaland

Joe Donnelly

I couldn’t help but think that what happened in the row in front of me was one of those amazing moments when you see the present moving into, and helping create, the future.

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Hopeless romantics: Holdridge (center) flanked by cast members (from left to right) McNairy

In Search of a Midnight Kiss: Hollywood Ending

Joe Donnelly
Alex Holdridge remembers the moment when he didn’t quit; the moment when he found some faith to hold onto during the tsunami of hell that was swamping him. When his eureka moment arrived, Holdridge was crashing at the shabby apartment of his friend, the actor and musician Brian Matthew McGuire.“I......
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Not Dead Yet: The Novel as Lifeline

Joe Donnelly
I read and I read and I read. I read like Forrest Gump ran, because I didn’t know what else to do or where else to go. He went running. I went reading. Novels mostly. The supposedly dead form. The only thing deader than poetry, or so the joke goes......
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Jill Leovy

Joe Donnelly
Jill Leovy picks at the ruins of a piece of carrot cake and describes the scene she just witnessed in Los Feliz, a riot of skinny, long-haired boys in skinny jeans and skinny, pointy shoes, strutting down Vermont Avenue like a flock of peacocks. “It struck me how safe they......
Credit: Illustration by John Lang

New Fiction: "Sunday"

Joe Donnelly
It started up again. Illustration by John Lang (Click to enlarge) You really don’t remember, Was it something that he said? Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria? Gloria, don’t you think you’re fallin’? The first time Rudy went up to the jukebox and found “Gloria,” the one by......

How the Dems Could Blow It Again

Joe Donnelly
There was a candidate who beamed hope for the disenfranchised, the disillusioned, the folks who have been forgotten and passed over for decades, shut out and s...