arts and culture
What does a hero look like? See ‘El Pepe: A Supreme Life’
April 8, 2020At first glance, he’s a gnarled, wizened, disheveled, weather-beaten old man. He could use a trim and new clothes. He sits on a bench at his farm, the chickens pecking for insects in the ground around...
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Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity
April 3, 2020The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.
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‘Unorthodox’: The vagaries of victimization
April 1, 2020As this group of religious zealots have turned from being victims to being perpetrators, there is a cautionary that needs to be attached to this kind of fundamentalism.
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Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’: Showcasing how profit-driven greed destroys nature
March 24, 2020Overall, Tiger King is an engrossing series that you can watch for both the guilty-pleasure melodrama and the more important fight against big cat captivity for profit.
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Book Review: ‘Going Over Home, A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land’
March 20, 2020Going Over Home gives the reader many reasons to find those seeds of hope and an approach for how to sow them.
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