arts and culture
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’: Not a bomb!
August 30, 2023Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm, is an excellent film, a suspenseful thriller raising important issues.
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‘The Man Who Changed Colors’: A multi-layered working-class suspense thriller
August 29, 2023Fletcher vividly depicts working-class life in New Bedford, the string of other working-class communities along the Massachusetts coast, and the dangerous work conditions in the shipyard.
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives
August 25, 2023Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.
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‘Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance,’ a book review
August 23, 2023Kovalik does a great job tracing U.S. interventionism in Nicaragua and its attempts to “claim” the land and resources through its imperialist Monroe Doctrine approach.
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‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.
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