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Talking Late-Capitalist Kenophobic โPost-Pandemicโ Blues
I had finally googled it sometime in lockdown โ โkenophobia,โ or a fear of open spaces โ subtly different from agoraphobia (the fear of leaving the house for a public space of any kind โ a ...
Picture This, Shots in the Dark: Billy Monk’s Underworld
Repressive societies, like those ruled by regimes that rely on heavy policing to enforce state policy, have a way of creating unique situations and throwing up special characters. Often, the most interesting people are those who ...
The Original A#1 – Lee Marvin Rides the Rails – At the Drive-In with Mike Morgan
I’ll never forget the opening sequence of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, the western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Sumarai.ย This is not because of the Elmer Bernstein Marlboro Man theme music.ย Nor is it ...
A Nation of Immigrants? Erasure, Exclusion and the Power of Rodney Toy’s Art
A recent art exhibit in San Francisco got me thinking about immigrants and immigration, which has long been a hot topic in the US. I can relate on a personal level. Rodney Toy, 53, the artist ...
Death to The Walking Dead
After twelve years of blood and guts, AMCโs post-apocalyptic zombie epic The Walking Dead (TWD) is finally being laid to rest. With almost all of the original cast long torn to shreds since its 2010 debut, ...
A Matter of Life and Death: Winning the Fight for Vaccines
It seems increasingly likely that a real end to the COVID pandemic will require all but universal vaccination.[1] There are three challenges that need to be met: The development of much more effective strategies to work ...
A Glimpse of Nablus
I probably won’t live long enough to bring into being a film I’ve thought about making in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from the time the Women’s Press sent a preview copy of Palestinian poet ...
Rosanne Boyland is DeadโWTF!
When I listened to the โAmerican Radicalโ podcast for the first time, I had a hard time keeping track of the people and events so I decided to take detailed notes.ย Then I realized that the ...
One Foot in the Present, Another in the Future: Food Coops
The San Francisco Bay Area loves cooperatives, aka coops, which were invented in 1844 when the Rochdale Pioneers in Lancashire, England banded together to help themselves and their community. It was an auspicious beginning. 1844 was ...