arts and culture
Battle 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‘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.
Read moreCannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage
July 22, 2021Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.
Read moreNew crime fiction novel ‘A Hello to Arms’ slams postwar capitalism in L.A.
July 21, 2021Dennis Broe’s new crime fiction novel starring private investigator Harry Palmer in his second Los Angeles outing has just appeared from Pathmark Press.
Read moreCannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
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