arts and culture
The estranged bedfellows of ‘Bombshell’: What the Fox is going on?
December 17, 2019The star-studded anti-Fox News movie Bombshell is perfect for the #MeToo era.
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Three historic TV features on radical composer Marc Blitzstein now available for viewing
December 13, 2019All three videos have been posted complete on YouTube, free and available to all.
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‘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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