arts and culture
‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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Study: Inconsistent seams, player behavior behind home run uptick
December 11, 2019Changes to the roundness of the ball, surface roughness and the thickness of the laces were found to be “relatively consistent.”
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‘Citizen K’: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the birthing of the new Russia
December 10, 2019Citizen K is totally riveting from beginning to end, assuming a viewer has some interest in the subject.
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Queer Eye for the Cinefile: How Enlightened was the Enlightenment?
December 10, 2019"Portrait of a Lady On Fire" film review.
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First Irish working-class poetry anthology published
December 9, 2019Dr. Jenny Farrell talks with People's World about her new edited volume.
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