Movies and Politics: Truth in Fiction
With Election Day right around the corner, the propaganda machines are busily spinning political webs with which the candidates can…
Category: Archive
Letter from Russia, Volume I: Life on the Other Side of the Language Gap
A few years ago I tutored a Chinese student during his first summer in the U.S., before he started his…
A Poem by Chelsea Blakely
If you do not understand the number 86 as a verb, you've probably never worked in food service. If an…
Divine Decadence: Memories of Glam
Glam—or as it was originally called in the UK, Glitter Rock—flourished from early summer 1972 to summer 1974: shorter than…
Letters from Chicago, Volume II: Bursts of Inquiry
I was hovered over a trash can outside Walgreen's fiddling with a book of stamps I bought for nine dollars…
America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where…
Horror’s Next Step
I understand I am late to the game in voicing my opinions about The Cabin in the Woods. The movie…
Two Poems by Conley Lowrance
How are you so confident in your perspective? Is not your reality as subjective as mine? I find these questions…
Pink is the New Green: Soylent Never Goes Out of Style
When the science-fiction film Soylent Green was released in 1973, critics celebrated everything about it except the premise. New York…
Free From Tiny Screens: Jack White
Removing light-blue sheets from various instruments onstage, each roadie at the Jack White concert sported suspenders, a blue tie, and…