Jim Lane

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Lead Belly discography released

February 23, 2015 By Jim Lane

Did he really sing his way out of Southern prisons twice? Did he really travel and sing with the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson?

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Racism isn’t new in Texas

February 20, 2015 By Jim Lane

Carmen Boullosa has done us a great service, and provided us a marvelously good read.

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So many good reasons to see “Wild”

December 23, 2014 By Jim Lane

Nominations and awards are being discussed for "Wild," with good reason.

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Television news criticized in “Nightcrawler”

November 13, 2014 By Jim Lane

Most of the reviews call "Nightcrawler" a gorefest, made-for-Halloween, shocker. But there's a lot more to it.

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“Interstellar” says the world may not end

November 12, 2014 By Jim Lane

If you are still marveling over Stanley Kubrick's great sci-fi film 2001, released 46 years ago and still stunning, you will probably like Interstellar.

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“The Ballad of Jane Elkins,” Texas slave woman hanged

October 28, 2014 By Jim Lane

A soliloquy in which African-American slave Jane comes back alive to go over the last few days before she used an ax to split open the head of slave Master Wisdom.

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