Jim Lane
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jim Lane
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Lead Belly discography released
February 23, 2015Did 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, 2015Carmen 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, 2014Nominations and awards are being discussed for "Wild," with good reason.
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Television news criticized in “Nightcrawler”
November 13, 2014Most 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, 2014If 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, 2014A 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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Turnout is the wildcard in Texas election
October 21, 2014What could make all polls obsolete is voter turnout: labor and the progressive forces are knocking themselves out to increase it!
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“Pride” tells of solidarity vs. prejudice, winning vs. losing
October 14, 2014In 1984, a small group of London gays and lesbians collected money for the miners and taught a lesson of solidarity that everybody should memorize.
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