Gene Lantz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Gene Lantz
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“Belle”: young love in shadow of the slave trade
May 14, 2014This historical drama takes up Belle's first encounters with young love, the stratified class system of the times, and disgusting forms of chauvinism.
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March movies that came in like a lamb, went out like a lamb
April 10, 2014I was eager to see "The Grand Budapest Hotel" because its creator has done such fine whimsical works before. Both of them raised whimsy to an art form, and so does this latest work.
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Dallas coalition holds action day for immigration reform
April 8, 2014Pueblo Sin Fronteras, an immigrant rights group, and the Texas Organizing Project, which gets into any and all community issues, sponsored the activity, but the Dallas AFL-CIO banner was front and center.
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Students support successful union drive for campus workers
April 1, 2014Cafeteria workers, angry at cuts made by management, approached Local 1000 in Grapevine, who sent organizers and the new leader of the Young Workers Council to the university.
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Right wingers besiege Dallas
March 18, 2014Imagine living in a city striving to win the 2016 Republican Convention, already accepted a convention for the worst anti-worker political organizers in America, and trying to privatize their entire school district.
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Texas MoveOn takes aim at ALEC
March 17, 2014ALEC brings together right-wing politicians and big-money corporations to write and promote anti-worker legislation throughout the country.
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Families react to tragedy in “August: Osage County” and “Nebraska”
January 21, 2014By now, we should be convinced that Meryl Streep can do anything, but we've never seen her do ugly like this!
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“The Wolf of Wall Street”: “Mean Streets” director does “Ugly Street”
January 17, 2014It's an ugly, unforgivable movie of shameful practices and sociopathic tendencies. How else, of course, would you make a movie about Wall Street finance?
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