Short list this week, but I want ya’ll to get your reading over early so you can run out and finish up your Christmas shopping!

This week’s Must Read isn’t underground at all: BadAzz MoFo takes on the subject of African American “squalor porn” and how it applies to the widely acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild. He doesn’t slam the film — in fact, he says many nice things about it — but David always has an interesting take on subjects like this that are mandatory reading, with insights such as “the continued acceptance of squalor porn as a persistently accepted representation of black reality is the result of ideological constructs of racism and colonialism, manifested in cinema.” Great food for thought.This is very brief, but J Hoberman has a piece on Jonas Mekas turning 90 tomorrow.The Boulder Weekly has an article about local professor and...