Culture

Toolmaker-singer speaks out on ‘one person, one vote’

March 26, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

Clint Jones, 82, has won fame with his "Clint's Dandy Digger," but his biggest passion is his belief that the Electoral College is unjust and should be abolished.

Jazz-blues opera brings ‘Forgotten’ labor history to life

March 23, 2010 By Dave Elsila

In "Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant," the story of unsung labor hero Lewis Bradford, Methodist minister and union organizer, comes to life in Michigan on March 26.

‘The Last Station’ – we loved it and learned from it

March 10, 2010 By Jim Lane

Love, wealth, utopian ideas and looming revolution are themes in this wonderfully acted film about Tolstoy and his wife.

Driving us to distraction in land of logos

February 23, 2010 By Nicholas James

In the movie "They Live," aliens use subliminal messages to steer our actions and thinking. Living in the "land of logos," are we being steered, and for what?

Movies, not bombs, are state’s biggest job-creation program since WWII

February 17, 2010 By Emil Shaw

SANTA FE, N.M. - A film and media day here this month spotlighted the massive job-creating potential of movies and the arts. The film industry is this state's "biggest job creation program since the Manhattan Project,"...