For @ringer, I had the pleasure of writing and assembling an oral history of the Chicago Bulls' starting-lineup introduction, which chronicles how the greatest NBA dynasty of the 1990s transformed a dull pregame routine into an iconic must-see spectacle.

It looks like the NBA on NBC will be returning soon, and that can only mean the return of “Roundball Rock.” @jakemalooley on how John Tesh created the soundtrack to the golden age of the NBA:

Here’s a link to the piece in @AirMailWeekly for those who want to explore further:

The latest episode of @TheRewatchables covers Scorsese’s unsung After Hours, and it was fun to hear @BillSimmons shout-out my oral history of the film.

I came to learn the state's case against Weger at his 1961 trial was solely based on his confession—a statement Weger quickly recanted. Even the prosectors believed the confession was coerced by local detectives under intense pressure to solve the highly publicized case.

Chester Weger has died at age 86. In 2021, for @ChicagoMag, I spent time with Weger and his family as they mounted a fight to overturn his conviction. He told me then: “I don’t want to die with people thinking I’m guilty of a crime I never committed.” https://t.co/T0AnqdKwL8

The Richie Weeks documentary TAKING BACK THE GROOVE screened in dozens of festivals around the world. Today @residentadvisor released the film, and you can watch it here: https://t.co/Tg6BR2Qihi

For a sidebar to the Helmut Jahn feature in the August issue of @ChicagoMag, I talked to director Peter Hyams about shooting the climactic scene of his buddy-cop film RUNNING SCARED at the Thompson Center shortly after the building's completion.

Helmut Jahn died suddenly while @ajlatrace and I were working on an oral history of his then-imperiled masterwork, the Thompson Center. We revisited our unpublished interviews with the legendary architect for the August issue of @ChicagoMag. https://t.co/K75sx5Vc2d

It was a pleasure to work with @jakemalooley on this story for @ChicagoMag. "A lot of public buildings that have been repurposed — they have come to a new life. I think that’s what this building needs. It needs a new life." https://t.co/ka3n1hjacr

Wondering what to get the Daddy who don’t live in that New York City no more?

The NBA on NBC may be coming back; will its iconic theme song be there to welcome viewers? In this feature from the archives, @jakemalooley talks to John Tesh, Marv Albert, and many more for an oral history of ‘Roundball Rock’: https://t.co/VLUms8rkkE

- @jakemalooley's article in @guardian covers the Oscar-winning director, #MartinScorsese's donation of 50 storage boxes that hold thousands of VHS tapes containing films and television programs Scorsese recorded directly from broadcast television. https://t.co/g8lmmCqtE9

The clip is from “The Scorsese Machine,” a 1990 episode of the French TV documentary series “Cinéma, de notre temps,” directed by André S. Labarthe. https://t.co/Mhhb4LjQ9v

Martin Scorsese’s video archivist Paul Mougey records telecasts to VHS tape in the filmmaker’s Brill Building office in 1988.

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“Martin Scorsese has quietly made public a very private preoccupation. More than 50 storage boxes hold thousands of VHS tapes.” Scorsese, “it turns out, was, for decades, a prolific guerrilla archivist.” @jakemalooley @guardianfilm https://t.co/G93ja4tcel

‘He was always voraciously watching’: Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist

I wrote about Martin Scorsese's secret life as a guerilla archivist. For decades, the filmmaker recorded thousands of hours of films and TV programs onto VHS tape. This private video archive became an essential part of his filmmaking process. https://t.co/B6jlQVpRjr

Fun to hear some of my interview with RISKY BUSINESS director Paul Brickman read aloud in this episode of @TheRewatchables. https://t.co/kVHMKAvucL

Somewhere back in his long ago, Michael McDonald partnered with Steely Dan's Walter Becker to deal coke. Everything went sideways when they couldn't stop hoovering up the merchandise. That and more tales from McD's new memoir, WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES, in the latest newsletter.