Culture
Picking up sticks and stones at Woody Fest 2018
July 16, 2018In the hometown where Woody grew up, Okemah, Okla, each year around his birthday the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival takes place. It’s sorta an old hippie crowd along with progressive young persons desiring to connect to...
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Two South Seas cinema superstars open in ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Siberia’
July 13, 2018Skyscraper It never fails to amaze (and amuse) how movies mirror reality as emanations of the collective psyche. Just days after the premiere of The First Purge, about a race war aimed at exterminating African Americans...
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Injecting life into socialism: Post-1956 Hungarian art and Soviet flower power
July 12, 2018If you have received opinions, best leave them at the door when you visit the Wende Museum of the Cold War.
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Socialism’s contradictions in ‘the other Germany’ and the Third World
July 11, 2018While East German leaders were confounded by some of the notions of their Mozambican brothers and sisters, Maoist Chinese students, or how to handle Angela Davis, they did seem deeply committed to making socialism real.
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Hopefully ‘Cabaret’ will seem dated some day, but we’re nowhere there yet
July 10, 2018Cabaret entertains mightily, with remarkably good singing-actor voices, as its chilling messages creep into your bones.
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