Bart Bull

by Bart Bull (published in SPIN; excerpt from cover story) It wouldn’t be fair to say that Prince didn’t exist before “I Wanna Be Your L...

So this ran in SPIN back in the day, as an Editor's Note. As if it weren't odd enough to get paid to write about Irving Berlin....

I've been thinking yet again of   The Key To Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo. I've quoted from it before, and God willing, insh'...

Maybe the Civil Rights Movement, just like Davy Crockett, was born on a mountain-top in Tennessee. Maybe Mona Lisa's smile is over-ra...

The marshal of Tombstone reaches down to his gun belt, runs his hand over the black leather loops that hold the cartridges in an orderly row...

by Bart Bull published in Vogue (excerpt) On the wall nearby is a precisely rendered watercolor of a red-brown horse, a little swaybacke...

The French  can  rock.  Just ask them: they'll blast Noir Désir. Then, over the crashing, clashing, clanging guitars, the bludgeoned but...

Back in 1997, Burger King abandoned France but the French, no matter their reputation, never retreated from le Whopper. Numerous petitio...

The year 1977, as it turns out, was revolutionary. As decades fly by, we may not remember it as the year punk broke through, the year  skat...

When Indra Devi came though the majestic gilded doors of the palace at Mysore, she was entering one of the most whirling, swirling, stirring...

March, 2009 (Here's a little something I did earlier this year ( en Anglais, remerciez Dieu! ) for an oddly-titled French publicat...

Over coffee the other morning, we're looking at some of Jean-Marie Perier's photos, and among the hundreds that burst across the lin...

Arizona is where the Old West crawled off to die. Or if not actually to die, then at least establish a cranky early retirement. Bart Bull

"That may well be the way that we can best determine the ghetto parts and the barrio parts of LA from the non-ghetto, non-barrio parts ...

"Tu primer fiesta de toros, tu primer viage a un protibulo y quiza tu primera borrachera, tu primer pelea en un bar, tu primer v...