“Roberta’s Fire”: Homophobia, hate, redemption in a Texas town
I had some mind-traveling to do in reading "Roberta's Fire," by Texas songwriter-singer-journalist Kelly Sinclair.
A triumphant must-see show about Paul Robeson
Daniel Beaty doesn't miss a beat in his one-man tribute to African American Paul Robeson, the son of a runaway slave who went on to become an actor, activist and Renaissance Man.
Workers Unite Film Festival opens May 9 in NYC
New York City is the home of many film festivals. Most don't highlight the lives of working people, although some have working people as characters.
"The Galapagos Affair, Satan Came to Eden" film review
The atavistic impulse to "get away from it all" and "return to nature" has been a literary theme since Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson cast away on desert islands.
"Alphaville" totalitarian fears still relevant decades later
Almost 50 years later, the prescient Godard's sci fi classic takes on a whole new dimension as a parable of the NSA national security surveillance state.
"The Quiet Ones" is drama dressed up as horror
Though perhaps arbitrarily unique among its peers, "The Quiet Ones" will likely still get lumped in with the other PG-13 contemporaries and forgotten soon enough.
A Coffin in Egypt, Texas
The latest by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon, among the freshest voices in music today.Von Stade plays the 90 year-old Myrtle Bledsoe, lone survivor at her family homestead in Egypt, Texas.
"Cesar's Last Fast": The last shall be first
Jesus may have had a Last Supper but Cesar Chavez had a Final Fast.
In Gasland Part ll, Josh Fox continues to expose the destructive effects of fracking
Beginning from where his first award winning Gasland left off, Fox's worse nightmare has come true as his childhood house in a sleepy Pennsylvania forest has been surrounded by gas drilling rigs.
Labor says "NO" to outsourcing of "Draft Day's" music
"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."
