arts and entertainment
“A Hundred Lifetimes”: Climate change and politics – on Venus?
October 24, 2016If you want to escape Earth but not leave the real, complex struggles to solve its many challenges, this book is for you.
Read moreBabs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
Read more“The Handmaiden”: Stunning erotic crime thriller in Japanese-occupied Korea
October 21, 2016In a mesmerizing 145 minutes, the director opens up a toolkit full of sharp contrasts and opposites.
Read moreDouble play: “Billy & Ray” and “The Stand-In”
October 17, 2016The cynicism Wilder’s oeuvre is known for suggests that he may not necessarily have been so wild about us - the human race.
Read moreToday in labor history: Bob Marley, champion of the oppressed, is born
February 6, 2013Bob Marley, who introduced reggae to the world and gave voice to the passion of oppressed people, was born 68 years ago in the Jamaican village of Nine Mile.
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