Culture
Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’: Ambitious love letter to a tainted industry
April 29, 2020At a time when so-called “edgy” storytelling relies so heavily on tragic figures and miserable endings for the sake of “realism,” Hollywood’s attempt to give a little glimmer of joy is a breath of fresh air.
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L.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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‘Babylon Berlin’ and origin of German fascism; ‘Superstore’ in age of Amazon
April 27, 2020A very strong aspect of 'Babylon Berlin' is that it does not reduce German fascism to Hitler, but instead depicts the much broader currents of the society that support it, including the aforesaid banks and investors...
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Red, Black, White: The Communist Party in Alabama
April 24, 2020The seeds of the Civil Rights Movement, of Black Liberation, and more were planted in the South by Communists in the Depression years.
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POETRY: We are the public workers of New York City
April 23, 2020Chris Butters, a member of DC 37, AFSCME, wrote the following poem in 2013 in response to the destruction wreaked upon New York City by Hurricane Sandy.
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