What are you doing with all of your leftover turkey? When I was growing up, I knew turkey leftovers well. We'd get a big turkey for Thanksgiving and then eat the leftovers for like 3 weeks. Then, my Dad's work always gave us a Christmas...
Author: Erik Loomis
I thought everyone might need their feelings reassured for Thanksgiving. Luckily, the Denver Westword has provided us with some extra-special classroom posters from 1973. Now, let's all gather around and.
Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
Weather is pretty not great in New England, a lot of people are on the road across the country including myself in about 5 minutes. Be safe, blah, blah, etc. And if you think I wrote this post as an excuse to embed some Bill...
I have always wanted to like Catherine Breillat's films, but never have. I find her a cut-rate Eric Rohmer, trying and failing to equal Rohmer's dialogue about sex and love.
The jazz world and the drumming world weeps tonight.
Last night I watched "Mesrine", the 4 hour film on the life of the notorious French gangster of the 60s and 70s, Jacques Mesrine. It was very good, but not great, suffering from some of the problems many bio-pic faces, primarily the need to stuff...
On November 22, 1909, approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the.
A bit of an older piece now, but Ian Angus and Simon Butler provide some real solid evidence to a point I have made repeatedly--that overpopulation is far from the.
Who could have guessed that energy companies would wildly exaggerate the economic benefit pipelines bring to local communities! Here are the tax dollar promises TransCanada promised South Dakota counties and what they are actually paying: Marshall County: $937,804.50 promised; $286,280.98 actually paid; Clark County: $1,369,565,98...
A good Chris Fan piece at Hyphen asking a question that has plagued social movements for a long time--why do solidly progressive politicians end up siding with forces of order.
People are complaining that Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" isn't telling the whole story about the convicted murderers it portrays. Herzog has long eschewed the idea of "truth" in his.