Culture
Overview of tenth anniversary DOC NYC Film Festival
November 7, 2019The DOC NYC Film Festival has now become the largest documentary film festival in the U.S. It screens over 300 films, including many U.S. and world premieres, and runs for 10 days, Nov. 6-15.
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‘The 7 Stages of Grieving’: An original Aboriginal Australian one-woman show
November 7, 2019As soon as the curtain lifts at the Skylight Theatre, "The 7 Stages of Grieving" kicks off with something most American audiences are likely to have never seen before in all of their theatergoing.
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Breaking the class ceiling: New books challenge the meritocracy trap
November 6, 2019Often times, it’s the lucky breaks that already advantaged people enjoy that allow them to achieve even more success.
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Film review: All aboard the freedom train with “Harriet”
November 1, 2019In a straight forward, conventional manner co-writer/director Kasi Lemmons (1997’s Eve’s Bayou) unfolds the life story of Araminta "Minty" Ross.
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Is capitalism burying Mexico’s Day of the Dead?
October 31, 2019When this system is gone, its ravages complete, no one will build an ofrenda for it. No one will mourn it. No one will plant marigolds for capital.
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