The last time we saw Chalky White, he was seen escaping during an outdoor inmate riot with a fellow inmate named Milton. The beginning of this episode shows the...
Prologue: "1994 was a dope year. Mandela was elected president, Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan, IRA declared a cease-fire, and a bomb was dropped on t...
"Be honest and true, boys, whatever you do, boys, let this be your motto through life. Both now and forever, be this your endeavor when wrong with the right is ...
I was 11 when I first saw this movie on HBO. Not knowing what it was about, I watched anyway because the HBO parental guidance listed "Adult Content",...
For the past few weeks, I was breathless with anticipation for the sequel to 2005's Sin City. I read the books and re-watched the original and learned that, eve...
Frank Miller's ability to both introduce and explore the more darker elements of his characters is nearly unparalleled. Urban crime dramas are what he's most kn...
When the year 2008 was arriving at its inevitable end, I was panicked. Not because of a belief in the Rapture or a re-visitation of the Y2K problem, but because...
2007 was another solid year for music. From Pimp C's death to 50 Cent's $400M payday from Glaceau purchasing his Formula 50 vitamin water, there wasn't a dull m...
2006 was a sad year for music. Don't mean to start off this Flashback Friday retrospective with such a downer of a sentence, but c'mon...Tower Records (which is...
What can I say about 2005? It was the last year I attended school and the first year I secured a real job. What can I say about the music? Nothing.
But that'...
2004 was a milestone year for me. I had reached the age where I could now legally assess my drinking prowess, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl and my...
David Simon’s “The Wire” ended six years ago and is still near-universally hailed as the greatest television series ever created. Set and filmed in the city of ...
Sy L. Shackleford is a jack-of-all-trades columnist for Action A Go Go. A University of Connecticut graduate with a degree in both psychology and communication sciences, he is a walking encyclopedic repository for all things Marvel Comics, movies, hip-hop, et. al. You can follow him on Twitter @shack_house83.
