Culture
Bezos in space: When the world isn’t enough, exploit the whole galaxy
August 4, 2021The year is 2075. The location is the Amazon Mars Fulfillment Center.
Read moreWilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
Read moreBattle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates
August 2, 2021What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.
Read more‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize
July 30, 2021Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.
Read more‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
July 23, 2021Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.
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