A summer without baseball is like Christmas without Santa Claus, and we all need a little “Ho-ho-ho!” right now
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Exclusive Interview: Singer/Actor Annie Golden
The multifaceted entertainer talks about her storied career.
Read More »Movie Review: Tribeca Film Festival/Hot Docs Winner ‘499’
In '499' Rodrigo Reyes suggests that Mexico's murderous history of Spanish colonialism influences contemporary drug-cartel kidnappings and killings.
Read More »Coronavirus – Memorial Day
The coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, or whatever you want to call this horrific plague, has taken Memorial Day away from us.
Read More »Coronavirus – Saying Goodbye to School
This week we had to say an official “Goodbye” to the school building for the 2019-2020 school year.
Read More »‘What’s The Matter With Kansas?’ – A Deconstruction
“Kansas” is a metaphor for the good old days, an apt one for times when “average” meant good and decent and true, especially “an average American” – as American as apple pie.
Read More »2020 Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Jacinta’
Love bonds powerfully between a mother and child. However, love’s ties can morph into curses. And if the mother can’t heal from past wounds that spawned an addictive nature, that love endangers all under its power. Director Jessica Earnshaw’s documentary Jacinta explores the issues of heroin addition, generational emotional trauma, …
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Legendary Exploitation Film Producer Sam Sherman (Part 2)
"We’d have a poster made for which no movie existed. We’d use that to get advance money from theater people around the country and then make the film. We went so far as to make phony stills."
Read More »State of the Union Circa 2020 – Part IV
Where does Steve Bannon's anti-elitism go wrong? It’s in failing to distinguish between the kinds of populist movements that may ensue.
Read More »Music Review: ‘The Wake World,’ Award-Winning Opera by David Hertzberg
David Hertzberg's hallucinatory choral fantasy based on an Aleister Crowley fairy tale makes a vividly imaginative statement even in an audio recording.
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