Culture
Progressive cinema: Whistleblowers at Tribeca
May 7, 2014Certainly the film of most interest to progressives at the Tribeca Film Festival this year would be 1971, directed and written by Johanna Hamilton.
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Unique films get honors at Tribeca Film Fest
May 5, 2014The 12-day festival co-founded by Robert De Niro screened 89 feature films and 57 shorts to an audience of almost a half a million viewers.
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“Porgy and Bess”: Gershwin – You is my man now!
May 5, 2014Inspired by a newspaper clipping about a true-life crime, this perennial classic takes place in Charleston's fictionalized Catfish Row .
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Noir genre fiction from L.A.
May 5, 2014Think "Stonewall," and you conjure up images of gay and trans bar patrons in Greenwich Village who finally had seen enough of police brutality and, and fought back in June 1969.
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“Roberta’s Fire”: Homophobia, hate, redemption in a Texas town
May 5, 2014I had some mind-traveling to do in reading "Roberta's Fire," by Texas songwriter-singer-journalist Kelly Sinclair.
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