I just loved Celine Song's debut film from last year. Widely acclaimed, one can easily see why. Two young Koreans have a crush on each other. But her family of artists immigrates to Canada when they are 12. Years later, she is a writer in...
Author: Erik Loomis
The big music news for me recently was seeing Sunny Sweeney in North Andover, Massachusetts. Sweeney is probably best known for hosting some of the country shows on Sirius XM..
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento,.
First Football Team, 1890 Keep it to sports. As always, here's the top 10 games of the week using the Athletic's rankings of teams from 1-134, in order of game time. #5 Ohio State at #3 Penn State, 12, FOX. Obviously, this is the game...
The labor movement desperately needs Kamala Harris to win this week, even if the stupidest parts of it don't actually realize that. Even if she does though, the future of.
I recently heard about a violent war between food co-ops in the Twin Cities in the 1970s and by God, this was a real thing: The co-op founders came out.
This is the grave of Gee Gee Geyer. Born in 1935 in Chicago, Geraldine Geyer grew up there. A story she liked to tell was about how she hated bullies. Evidently, her father grew up in the Irish neighborhoods of Chicago and he did everything...
Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a brilliant film and very difficult to watch, in the same way that the greatest films about the Holocaust are. Holland has never shied away.
Joe Biden's appointee to head the National Archives is a woman named Colleen Shogan. The museum at the Archives is pretty popular. So Shogan has decided to save herself in.
Vice President Dick Cheney inspects a flintlock rifle given to him by the National Rifle Association while he is surrounded by NRA officers Sandra Froman (L), CEO Wayne LaPierre (C), and NRA President Kayne Robinson (R) during the 133rd Annual NRA convention being held at...
Ana Raquel Minian (read her book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration, it's great!) notes that Trump and Herr Miller have a deportation model in place: Operation Wetback..
Fascinating piece from Rachel Cohen about the German experiment to create universal child care. The piece is pretty long and goes into such issues as German attitudes toward mothers raising.