Culture

Mikhail Gorbachev and Steve Bannon documentaries at Toronto film festival

November 13, 2018 By Bill Meyer

Two controversial political figures get the kid glove treatment in new documentaries.

Fountain Theatre explores disability in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Cost of Living’

November 13, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps more than anything, Cost of Living examines the human need for one another, and what we do to get what that need demands of us.

‘Detroit 48202’: What a mail carrier sees and learns in the heart of a city

November 9, 2018 By John Dick

Detroit 48202 is a searing film that weaves the racial history of the city with the economic truths of capitalism.

Dominican Republic jazz report: When in Cabarete, dance merengue

November 9, 2018 By Laurent Ross

The 21st annual Dominican Republic Jazz finished off with a bang in this beach town on November 5. The final concert was—where else?—on Cabarete’s wide yellow-sand beach.

The Discarded Soldier

November 9, 2018 By Liam O’Flaherty

“The ribbons faded on his breast. He was cast into the great city, homeless, unwanted, penniless. Capitalism no longer needed him.”