Arts
U.K.: Performers condemn woes facing the entertainment arts
May 21, 2014Stage and screen performers face funding cuts to the arts, chronic low pay and the dearth of black and ethnic minority representation.
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Letters from Zora: In her own words
May 16, 2014"I was able to conjure my own self," says Black American writer Zora Neale Hurston in the non-stop phenomenon that is Letters from Zora.
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Entrapment, food wars, and capitalism in three films
May 15, 2014A film that debuted at the recent Tribeca Film Festival offers compelling evidence that our government has gone too far in "protecting" its citizens.
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“Belle”: young love in shadow of the slave trade
May 14, 2014This historical drama takes up Belle's first encounters with young love, the stratified class system of the times, and disgusting forms of chauvinism.
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Review: “Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself “
May 14, 2014The PBS American Masters series is airing a biopic about the writer who made a career out of being a "professional amateur."
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