Business tycoons with no moral rudder are nothing new. Barely a month seems to go by without one of them being brought up on charges by federal prosecutors, getting fined by the Environmental...
Originally titled “The Audacity of Louis Ortiz,” Ryan Murdock’s “Bronx Obama” is a study of the American Dream gone wacky. In 2008 a former Verizon worker of Puerto Rican descent shaved off...
It’s a scary time to be Muslim in Australia. On 18 September, anti-terrorism raids in connection with IS were conducted in Sydney and Brisbane. Australia’s terror alert has also been raised from...
Expanded from Cutter Hodierne’s own short film of the same name, “Fishing Without Nets” is the flipside of “Captain Phillips.” Hodierne explores Somali pirates from the point of view of...
Transparent is part of Amazon’s answer to Netflix, an attempt to make itself relevant in a new television landscape by producing indie web content for subscribers; and it’s getting rave reviews,...
Remember when movies were movies? Remember when voice–overs were the words of god on celluloid, balls out and bombastic? Remember Cannon Films? “Cannon Films the home of high power, high voltage...
Ali Smith’s latest novel was being tipped for the Man Booker longlist 12 months before it came out on some book blogs, and within days of its release, the zeitgeist had it that this was definitely...
Unfortunately, the Arab world these days is only in the news in the shadow of ISIS and their cut-throat shenanigans. The images from the region are those of an Arab spring turned on its head; of...
When I heard that Genesee County Jail (located in Southeast Michigan, servicing Flint, among other cities) would be offering video chatting for people visiting inmates, I was at first intrigued. I am...
“So what this is all about?” is one of the frequent questions that people ask artist Angelo Formica. It’s no surprise. Even if in contemporary art provocation is the norm, to see a religious...
