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Big change starts small. Or so filmmaker/poet Stephen Gyllenhaal believes. Join me at The High Bar as we debate grassroots politics, tea parties and the one-minute monorail. Then, write in [...]
I watched Bill O’Reilly referee a steel-cage, grudge match/battle-of-wits between Ann Coulter and Al Sharpton and it became apparent, immediately, that both sides were unarmed. While America’s unemployment rates soar, [...]
Cinematic storytelling gets more spectacular lip service than Dizzy Gillespie‘s upswept trumpet. Film is a visual medium, they say; dialogue nearly an afterthought. And yet, movies remain talkier than Henry [...]
Rated PG-13 for some violence, language including sexual references, and brief drug content. Running Time : 127 minutes Oscar® winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller [...]
Rated PG-13 for some violence, language including sexual references, and brief drug content. Running Time : 127 minutes Oscar® winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller [...]
Who knew? Calvin Trillin has a following more committed than the devotees of the Reverend Jim Jones. When I hosted The Nation‘s “deadline poet” at Words & Wine earlier this [...]
The Suffragists struggled mightily to earn women the right to vote. The fight continues to get women on the ballot to vote for. Despite the fact the United States’ population [...]
Harvey Milk learned his lesson: You’ve got to give them Hope. Apparently, Barack Obama was listening; apparently, Danny Boyle cribbed his notes. Obama co-opted Hope as a one-word campaign slogan. [...]
In today’s politics, Hope is trendy; Cynicism remains prudent. Given the gloomy economic forecast, we must remember to look beyond the bottom lines and evaluate those figures etched in prophet-margins. [...]
The Progressive Poet A political poetry contest Let your inner political bard out! Think you have what it takes to be Washington’s State’s first political poet laureate? Well bring on [...]
