State of the Union Circa 2020 – Part III
Continued from Part II I The most immediate consequence of the populist movement afoot, propelled as it is by unabashed anti-immigration sentiment, is a near-total bifurcation of the voting public....
View ArticleState of the Union Circa 2020 – Part IV
Continued from Part III I I believe that Steve Bannon identifies the rise of populism with a democratic impulse of sorts, and he may be right about this to an extent. Indeed, one needn’t look any...
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Exclusive Interview: Anthem Film Festival’s Jo Ann Skousen – Caesars Palace...
Until coronavirus restrictions interfered, the tenth annual Anthem Film Festival was to move from the Paris Casino to Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, July 13-16. The film festival, part of the...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘White Riot’
White Riot, directed by Rubika Shah and released in North America by Film Movement, is a timely and relevant documentary movie though talking about events over 40 years ago. The late 1970s in Great...
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Theater Review: Molière in the Park Presents ‘pen/man/ship’ by Christina...
Zoom-age virtual theater and Molière in the Park each take a leap forward with pen/man/ship, a vivid online production of a play by Christina Anderson. MIP’s first offering of a contemporary American...
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Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts
We all need food, clean water, and a place to live. And climate change threatens them all. Global heating is already damaging agriculture, water access, and the environments that hundreds of millions...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Suspect’ by Rizwaan Sabir
The Suspect by Rizwaan Sabir, published by Pluto Books, is the harrowing account of the author’s experiences at the hands of Great Britains’ counter intelligence agencies. However, as Sabir is also a...
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Good Guys with Guns Can’t Stop Mass Shootings
“Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun.” The favorite bull*hit spewed by the NRA, Trumpsters, MAGAs. Nothing is holier than the second amendment, for which there is only...
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Is There Anybody Out There? NASA Says ‘No!’ with a Caveat
Is there anybody out there? NASA says “No!” but with a possibly surprising reason: The extraterrestrials that we have thought about and sometimes worried about over the years probably destroyed...
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Percy Hynes White and the Danger of Cancel Culture
Percy Hynes White, from Netflix’s Wednesday, has said he was falsely accused of sexual crimes, but Cancel Culture is still out to hound and destroy him. Crisis experts offer insight and solutions to...
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