We Feed People
During a disaster it’s hard to get a hot meal. That’s why the nonprofit World Central Kitchen is operating multiple locations in Poland, providing solid meals to some of the nearly 4 million refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.
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On Olympic Bodies
With the recent arrival of the Dobbs verdict, and the further threat to women’s bodily automy, it’s easy to forget that we have been on a road to this for a while. Apart from...
No Rumpled Female Detectives, Please
Stuck inside with this wave of Omicron, I’ve been watching a lot of old television, from Murder She Wrote to Columbo. All that telly consumption illustrated that we have a long history of rumpled,...
January Haters Club
Screaming “I HATE JANUARY” out loud for the zillionth time this week, it occurred to me that I’m probably not alone. Following closely on the cries of “Happy New Year” is one ugly slog...
It’s January, Be Nice To Yourself
Every January we are bombarded with fitness plans, weight loss guides and painfully basic advice on how to have the perfect home via decluttering and massive organizing. We are presented with endless and awful...
“Duran Duran” and the Ordinary World
This weekend the Austin City Limits television show aired the Duran Duran episode that was taped on October 5th of last year, making it a great time to take a look back at the...
Discussing Serial Killers at Christmas
With the holidays coming up fast, you can read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News today about the unusual way her family avoids political strife at the holiday dinner tables. Update: The Lizzie...
FAYE @Nashville Film Festival 2021
by Jason T Sparks It is entirely possible that, 20 or 30 years from now, kids will be sitting in a UCLA Film School class reading their textbooks—assuming that they’ve finally moved on from...
See You Then @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks What happens in the film See You Then is nothing alien, if you’re a full-grown adult who has lived any kind of life at all: two adult human beings, who...
PETITE MAMAN @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks Her name is Josephine Sanz, or, as she would say it, elle s’appelle Josephine Sanz. She is a young French lady, all of about ten years old, and she exudes...
