Email Author Heather Baysa

2012 Stories by Heather Baysa

• BACK TO THE BUFFET

  published December 19, 2012

  There are only a few things—apocalyptic zombie epidemics, Cloverfieldian monsters—that can clear out this town faster than the... More >>

• REBEL REBEL

  published December 12, 2012

  Forget It’s a Wonderful Life. For a truly heartwarming Christmas story this year, try John Waters’s camptastic 1974 classic... More >>

• REEL TIME

  published December 5, 2012

  It was one of those ideas born in a café, as most good ideas post-Hemingway usually are. Now, 20 years later, Australia’s Tropfest is... More >>

• FUNNY PEOPLE

  published November 28, 2012

  In the wake of the hurricane, Bruce Springsteen and friends pulled together a fundraiser that was epic and badass and chock full of nostalgia for... More >>

• HOLIDAY FEAR

  published November 21, 2012

  We all remember Bob Clark’s masterpiece A Christmas Story with Ralphie, the BB gun, and the leg lamp. But have you seen Clark’s other... More >>

• The People's Bailout

  published November 14, 2012

  The problem with debt? It has lost its glamour. Once the domain of the smoky backroom gambling circle, any street cred evaporated now that... More >>

• SCIENTIFIC METHOD

  published November 7, 2012

  Whoever says science is boring has clearly never been to the Imagine Science Film Festival, the fifth-annual event that combines art and science... More >>

• Presidential Election Night Party

  published October 31, 2012

  Presidential Election Night Party with DJ Herbert Holler. Tue., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., 2012 More >>

• Election Night Watch Party

  published October 31, 2012

  It’s that time again. So what’s it going to be? The right wing, the left wing, or the hot wing? We favor the latter, and when it comes... More >>

• First Blood

  published October 24, 2012

  Not exactly a looker like the fanged heartthrob Rob Pattinson, the big-eared, crazy-eyed Count Orlok nevertheless maintains a penchant for lurking... More >>

• FUNNY GIRL

  published October 17, 2012

  Hey ladies, feel like reading something truly hilarious? Simply Google “why women aren’t funny” and you’ll find a... More >>

• Murder, Inc.

  published October 10, 2012

  Despite the fun of Dexter and a bunch of fetishist Manson flicks, we’ve got to get real 
and say serial killers are largely not cool.... More >>

• ALL TOPS OFF

  published September 26, 2012

  It takes a certain kind of person to get up on stage and strip. It takes a whole different kind of person to get up on stage and sing, tap dance,... More >>

• WIRE TAP

  published September 26, 2012

  There have been a lot of comparisons between the latest wave of “smart” TV dramas and the Victorian novel: both serialized, both once... More >>

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  published September 19, 2012

  Trailblazers for many a modern-day Hannah Montana, the Monkees were originally actors cast to play a fictional band in a kids’ show airing... More >>

• SWEET 16

  published September 12, 2012

  Flash back to 1947, when the late, great cineaste Amos Vogel had a dream: that people would come together in the name of art, film, and a shared... More >>

• Tour de Taste

  published September 12, 2012

  Let’s get right to the point: Stuffing your face with gourmet cuisine doesn’t cart the same guilt if it’s done in the name of a... More >>

• SWEET VALLEY HIGH

  published August 29, 2012

  Julie thinks Randy is a hunk with a bitchin’ bod and fresh attitude to match. But, like, oh, no! Her girlfriends say he’s... More >>

• Meat and Greet

  published August 29, 2012

  We can think of a lot of reasons to drop out of law school. But for Noah Bernamoff, it was barbecue. At 27, the native Montrealer traded in books... More >>

• RENT CONTROL

  published August 22, 2012

  Before he was hitching up Harold and Maude, director Hal Ashby used the gentrification of the once-stroller-less, decidedly-not-vegan,... More >>

• WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

  published August 15, 2012

  Are you a crazy Keymaster? Maybe more of a sultry Gatekeeper? Either way, the Minions of Gozer have a job for you. In the spirit of many a Rocky... More >>

• BALLET WITHOUT BORDERS

  published August 8, 2012

  Appearing as a guest choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance might have been the closest he has come to mainstream appreciation, but in the... More >>

• HAPPILY (UN)MARRIED

  published July 25, 2012

  Celeste and Jesse Forever, the debut screenwriting venture by Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones, was a lot more like “Celeste and... More >>

• SEEDY READING

  published July 25, 2012

  Nowadays the waterway separating Manhattan and Brooklyn is best known as one of the world’s busiest industrial thoroughfares, not to mention... More >>

• FREE VERSE

  published July 18, 2012

  “Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore,” Whitman once meditated, somewhere afloat on the East River.... More >>