Culture
‘Stealing Chaplin’: The great gravediggers
May 5, 2021It may not be City Lights, but 'Stealing Chaplin' has its own delights for general audiences and film buffs who will enjoy seeing Charlie back in the limelight.
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‘Exterminate All the Brutes’: Heart of darkness, head of profit
May 3, 2021Twelve centuries of brutal inhumanity packed into four hours.
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Labor and culture unite for virtual May Day concert at HotHouse
April 30, 2021Celebrate International Workers Day with a program featuring Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Marvin Tate, and Bill MacKay, plus shout-outs from activists in the labor movement.
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‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award
April 27, 2021Darnella’s document, which reignited the Black Lives Matter uprising and America’s ongoing racial reckoning, could be entitled "10 Minutes That Shook the World."
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A crowning achievement: Fairy tale vs. reality in ‘The Crown’
April 23, 2021Watching "The Crown" only strengthened my conviction that inherited wealth, privilege, and status are inherently evil, and that the British monarchy needs to be immediately abolished.
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