Pat Padua

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

Near the end of the quirky, sprawling and finally too-short chronicle Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, the then 80-year-old subject passes on words of wisdom: “Being yourself. That’s fun like a motherfucker! But … you gotta find yourself.” Jerry Williams, as Swamp Dogg was born, may have found himself multiple times over the course of a long and strange career. But part of what makes him so compelling—and so hard to pin down—is that he never really stopped looking.

2 weeks ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Pat Padua |Allison R. Shely |Brandon Wetherbee

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! When Dean Spade wrote his newest book, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together, he didn’t predict just how fucked up the world would be by its 2025 publication.

1 month ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

If ever there was a writing style that oozed glam, Robert Dayton has it. To convey the admitted contradictions of Canadian glam – “what could be more nebulous than the words ‘Canadian’ and ‘glam,’” he asks on page one – Dayton strikes a delicious balance between enthusiastic embellishment and journalistic efficiency. What is Canadian glam, you may ask? Cold Glitter explains, fabulously.

2 months ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Pat Padua |Steve Kiviat |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Alan Zilberman |Will Lennon | +1 more

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Director Nagisa Oshima’s bold 1968 film operates on a devastating premise: What happens when a Korean man sentenced to death in a Japanese court somehow survives the execution? With a title like Death by Hanging and an opening sequence that lays out a case against capital punishment, one braces the emotions for what must inevitably be a laborious two-hour ordeal. Would you believe the movie is absolutely hilarious?

2 months ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

Imagine it’s the early ‘90s, the dawn of a new decade and nearly the end of the millennium. Hair is big, fashion is fluorescent and cocaine is plentiful, at least in your line of work. Because it is up to you, yes, you, to cast a wacky rom-com starring daytime/nighttime soap opera queen Emma Samms. So, who would you pick for her male lead? Chris Elliott? Cheech Marin? Believe it or not, both unlikely couplings came to fruition.