Culture
Vito Marcantonio, N.Y.’s socialist congressman, the subject of one-man play
February 1, 2019Today Marcantonio, perhaps the most progressive representative to ever hold a congressional seat, has largely been written out of history.
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Review: Rival documentaries showcase the fraud behind Fyre festival
February 1, 2019Fyre Fest combined the vainest aspects of millennial social media celebrity culture with the markers of “success” under capitalism. Now you can see two competing documentaries about it.
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Sex, politics, and film: Why Planned Parenthood has gone Hollywood
January 31, 2019Educating the masses on the importance of reproductive rights has always been a challenge. How can organizations fighting for reproductive rights reach past their regular followers and actively educate new people?
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The deported ghosts of Bisbee still haunt Arizona today
January 29, 2019Labor history is not a soap opera, and Arizona’s recent history of deportation shows the ghosts of Bisbee were never exorcized.
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Review: “I Am the Night” scratches surface of bizarre Hollywood true crime
January 28, 2019The mystery of the Black Dahlia murder serves as a backdrop for what ends up being a more human interest tale.
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