Considering that even high-profile cancer victims who can afford the best health care in the world still succumb to the disease, one could be forgiven for asking: isn't there another, better way?
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
20/20 recently treated its viewers to a condescending pity-party for the women it calls 'crazy cat ladies.' The segment, with an accompanying article online, was so over-the-top that it was almost a parody of itself.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
In 2006, documentary filmmaker Andrew Shapter was on a tour promoting his first film, "Before the Music Dies" when someone asked him what he planned t...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment
Is Dennis Hill a nut case for boarding people-eating cats in his backyard? Or is Dennis merely a genuine individualist doing his thing?
Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.
Evan Derkacz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home
The following is the opening to an article by philosophy professor Eric Reitan.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment
I knew it. Any chick capable of dealing with a tornado, juggling three men with lots of emotional baggage, a dog-lover and brave enough to confront wi...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment
And the main reason is because hatred/fear of gays is running neck-and-neck with hatred/fear of government for the most defining, unifying characteristic of the "modern" republican party.
Melissa Fitzgerald | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
As I was leaving an IDP camp, a man said to me, "Please don't let us die in this horrible place. Please tell the people in America what is happening here." I promised myself I would.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
I met Harris at the We Live In Public premiere in LA and emailed him some questions about the film, the future of the internet, and whether we really do or ever will truly live in public.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Can a woman not only forgive the man who killed her husband, her child, her mother, but accept him as her friend and neighbor? Can a man forgive himself for the brutal act he committed?
Jamie Starr | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver
In cases like the lawsuit against the ski film company Level 1, social media outlets are acting as a sort of gatekeeper -- a check on corporate actions that people in general view as unreasonable.
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
With all the stories of impending foreclosures across the nation and individuals and families facing eviction and moving into shelters, Impact would l...
The New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Before there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless White House chief of staff, there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless House Democratic campaign strategist ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
There is more to this frenzy of film festival expansion than free booze and filmmakers' desperation for recognition and distribution and filmgoers craving films not dumbed down.
Zorianna Kit | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment
When one black, male journalist wanted to know why Rock didn't choose to travel to Africa and show the origins of black women and their "natural" hair" Rock shot back: "That's Soledad O'Brien's job."
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.
Eric Bricker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment
I met the photographer Julius Shulman by chance in the spring of 1999. Unbeknownst to me, that meeting would open a hidden portal to Los Angeles, forever altering the course of my life.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
I encourage everyone, no matter what part of these United States you live in (or even if you live elsewhere), to take a "trip out West" at some point in your life. Get in a car, and go explore everything west of Denver.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment
An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
The Woodstock Film Festival will soon be host to Lucy Liu, Woody Harrelson and a host of 150 films, shorts, animations and panels.
Levi Novey | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
For the first time that I can remember, a Michael Moore documentary/propaganda piece is less about the subject at hand and more about Michael Moore himself.
Dan Persons | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film form. His latest documentary, the deceptively free-form Paradise, is an affecting -- dare I say, paradisiacal -- experience.
Consuelo Reyes | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living