We started 2025 in this series with Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a brilliant, if messy, satire of modern Romania through the eyes of a teacher whose idiot husband uploaded their sex tape to the internet and now has to face angry...
Author: Erik Loomis
As we lose our civil rights leaders, we need to note them. Charles Person was not the most famous of them because he made decisions to live a pretty normal.
White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S..
From Seattle: Councilmember Cathy Moore came out swinging against the extremely modest, geographically limited density increases Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed in his comprehensive plan update on Monday, taking aim at straw “urbanists” who, she claimed, believe the “lie” that brand-new housing is affordable and that new apartments automatically...
This is the grave of William Hulbert. Born in Burlington Flats, New York in 1832, Hulbert grew up in Chicago. His family moved to the new city on Lake Michigan.
Last night, I watched Amalie Rothschild's 1972 documentary It Happens to Us, which is a series of interviews with women who underwent illegal abortions. After its release, Rothschild put a.
I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster is a sociologist and storyteller who lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi for a few years to...
The Mississippi Free Press notes that there is nothing new under the sun about Donald Trump evading accountability for his crimes. In fact, it's completely normal in this country, from.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to be SEIU leader Andy Stern's project to stroke his own ego and nothing else. Completely...
This is the grave of Richard and Mildred Loving. Richard and Mildred Loving were both born in the small town of Central Point, Virginia. Richard was born in 1933 and.
Because I curate my film watching pretty carefully, I usually end up liking the films I watch. But it's always useful to discuss a film I didn't care for much..