Culture
‘6ixtynin9’: Sex, drugs and rock and roll!
September 21, 2023Ratanaruang has taken his surprise hit film of 1999 and deftly cut and stitched it into an eight-episode reprise of the eponymously named film.
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‘Peace for all those alive’: Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death
September 18, 2023The inherent connection between nature, history, and working people is the paramount theme of Neruda’s poetry.
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‘The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen’ in review
September 15, 2023Ever hear of William Dorsey Swann? Me neither. Another of those many buried figures in the history of Black and queer liberation.
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‘Freud on Cocaine’: The dramatized future of a delusion
September 14, 2023Although sometimes over the top, Howard Skora and his cast shed new light on one of humanity’s deepest thinkers by bringing Sigmund Freud, warts and all, back to life.
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‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’: Acclaimed Indigenous film screened at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater
September 13, 2023In the U.S. government’s long record of broken treaties, land theft, and genocide, the taking of the Black Hills ranks as perhaps as one of the most disgraceful episodes.
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