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Category: Literature/Arts/Film

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Jerusalema: Viral South African song/dance brings celebration to hard times

December 9, 2020 Christopher Burke Coronavirus, Fine Arts, Literature/Arts/Film One comment

Celebrating in these difficult times is hard. We’re still in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. Thankfully, vaccines are being approved and the beginning

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Educated: A painful, honest memoir of family vs. self

July 19, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Literature/Arts/Film, People Leave a comment

A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon

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Why they quit: Arts & Humanities Council’s letter of resignation [plus hidden message]

August 19, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Fine Arts, Literature/Arts/Film, Widgets: Letters of protest 2 comments

Donald Trump’s embrace of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups has alienated yet another of his showpiece “advisory” councils. All 17 members of

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Atomic Homefront: The feel-bad movie of the year

July 19, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Environment, Government, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

The director of Atomic Homefront calls her documentary “the feel-bad movie of the year.” That’s how Rebecca Camissa described it at a special advance

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Loving Hamilton doesn’t make you progressive

February 8, 2017 Adam Levin Activism, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

We are rapidly approaching Oscar season, so anticipate a wave of think-pieces dedicated to their cultural significance. I decided to preempt them with a

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Moonlight: Powerful, quiet, heartbreaking movie

November 27, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik LGBT, Literature/Arts/Film, Youth issues Leave a comment

The newly released movie Moonlight is a very quiet film with a powerful impact. It’s absorbing, thought-provoking and emotionally exhausting, with performances that are

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Half of a Yellow Sun: The story of a war Americans hardly remember — Biafra

November 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Language/Words, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

“Half of a Yellow Sun” is a difficult novel to read, but well worth the effort. It’s not difficult in the sense that you’ll

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Bob Roberts: A 1992 movie that predicted Donald Trump

October 9, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Literature/Arts/Film One comment

The 1992 movie “Bob Roberts” offers an uncannily prescient, satirical look at a candidacy much like Donald Trump’s. Written, directed by and starring Tim

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Donald Trump is Max Bialystok

October 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Donald Trump declared an eye-popping, one-year loss of $916 million on his 1995 federal tax return. Sound like something you once saw on Broadway

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Direct Drive: When art is politically controversial

September 28, 2016 Barbara Finch Literature/Arts/Film, Missouri region Leave a comment

I’ve often been told that writers write in order to figure things out.That is definitely the case with this piece, in which I feel

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