Culture
Review: ‘Birds of Passage’ not your ordinary drug war crime film
February 20, 2019At a little over two hours long, Birds of Passage is an expansive tale of a family in the midst of historic upheaval.
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Buzzfeed unionizing shows digital media workers still need unions
February 13, 2019A bout of recent layoffs and fights for proper compensation by the employees of Buzzfeed has led to workers on the job there voting to unionize, showing that new school media still requires the “old school”...
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Interested in Chicago, politics, or Obama? Read ‘Conversations with Abner Mikva’
February 5, 2019CHICAGO—If you’re interested in Chicago, read this book. If you’re interested in politics, read this book. If you’re interested in the more-than-occasional zaniness of Chicago politics, read this book. And if you’re interested in Barack Obama...
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Vito Marcantonio, N.Y.’s socialist congressman, the subject of one-man play
February 1, 2019Today Marcantonio, perhaps the most progressive representative to ever hold a congressional seat, has largely been written out of history.
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Review: Rival documentaries showcase the fraud behind Fyre festival
February 1, 2019Fyre Fest combined the vainest aspects of millennial social media celebrity culture with the markers of “success” under capitalism. Now you can see two competing documentaries about it.
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