On Food & Culture
starting the new year with viewing a hot documentary. “The Hand of God” is incisive and poetic. Director Joe Cultrera uses assembled items like hosts, water, statues to create montage scenes that work as abstract evocations. This is a beautiful look and feel of a …
Watching Amy Goodman on TV on December 8th was my defining moment of this 2006 Christmas season. “Democracy Now” carried a live interview with two members of the “Christian Peacemaking Team” who had just concluded a press conference in London. These are the hostages who …
I listen to this show from time to time. It’s one of those vibrant media spaces– “community happens” kind of phenomenon. “The Prison Show” runs from 9 to 12 midnight. It connects family members outside the prison walls with family members inside the prison walls. …
As a result of my jetlag (A’dam-Houston) and being awake at 3 AM, I watched a really good documentary on Free Speech TV, “The Letter.” Racisim and hatred show their colors (white) in Lewiston, Maryland, sparked by an open letter the Mayor writes to the …
Yes, yes, yes. Although still waiting for Virginia and Montana to be official, winning the House so handily means we’ll have some answers and information about this war, our energy policy (It was Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling surely who were the advisors whom Cheney …
This morning my thoughts are about: A time to support and celebrate Catholic, Protestant and other insitutional churces that show their love for tenn lesbians, gays. They are so desperately needed. The reason is that during a breakfast meeting I learned that a prominent local …
Check this out from the Rosie O’Donnell blog, this was a letter written by a brother of a soldier killed in Iraq. You can check it out also on www.rosie.com It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets …
The screening of the documentary about Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Knocking,” produced by Joel P. engardio and Tom Shepard was a standing room only event at the University of Boulder. It was part of the conference on “Fundamentalism and the Media.” The documentary is successful in expressing …
Last night the keynote address of the International Conference on Fundamentalism and the Media by Scott Appleby was long (over 70 minutes) engagingly dense and, at the conclusion stirring. Held at the beautiful Old Main Chapel auditorium on the campus of the University of Colorado, …
Thanks to Peter Horsfield who reminded me to go see the Holocaust Memorial while I was working in Berlin last week. I beautiful art experience that made my day. It’s about contemporary city life, relationships and how we can easily get lost to each other. …