The Crier

Articles by Michael Butterscotch

A Cultural Revolution

Cultured · Mar 16, 2007

With the uninformed American movie audience (and I, for a long time, one of them), it’s not so much a filmic xenophobia as a shyness: Foreign films are intimidating. After all, they’re in a different language. But art from an unfamiliar maker often ends up teaching you much more than its American counterpart.

Palio and Plato: Your V-Day Guide to Faking the Classics

Cultured · Feb 12, 2007

Valentine’s Day. Maybe you believe the whole buy-the-chocolates, buy-the-flowers idea of the holiday is the correct one. You succumbed to American commercialism or a pushy,…

Buy Your Professor’s Book. No, Seriously.

Cultured · Jan 29, 2007

So, the last piece you read by a University of Michigan writer was “Death of a Salesman” in 12th grade AP English, right after you…