Culture

What does a hero look like? See ‘El Pepe: A Supreme Life’
April 8, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
At first glance, he’s a gnarled, wizened, disheveled, weather-beaten old man. He could use a trim and new clothes. He sits on a bench at his farm, the chickens pecking for insects in the ground around...
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‘Jordskott’ and ecological horror; ‘One Day at a Time’ revived
April 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
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‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The best network series in what might be a coronavirus-abbreviated season is ABC’s For Life, a combination prison/courtroom drama about an innocent African-American inmate sentenced to life imprisonment.
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‘A Threat of the First Magnitude’: A history of FBI counterintelligence and infiltration
April 3, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
During the 1960s and 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation infiltrated, spied on, and harassed progressive and radical organizations and individuals across the country.
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Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity
April 3, 2020 By Jenny Farrell
The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.
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