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Culture Wars: The Nation Hosts A Salon

Erica Abeel | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Vampire Frenzy, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Wally Shawn, Entertainment, Progressives, Tony Kushner, Nation Magazine Salon, Obama, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Media News
Erica Abeel

The Nation magazine recently held a "Salon" to explore the question, What Will Become of Our Culture? Too bad it didn't occur during the current New Moon juggernaut.

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Where Maurice Sendak Has Been

Brian Dickie | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Glyndebourne, Higgley Pigglety Pop, Frank Corsaro, Tony Kushner, Knussen, HBO Documentaries, Where the Wild Things Are, Comedy on the Bridge, Maurice Sendak, Brundibar, Love for Three Oranges, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

We watched HBO's documentary on Maurice Sendak alternately with laughter and tears. Maurice has been an important part of my life for the last 29 years.

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Fonda, Sutherland, Streep Echo Trumbo & Brecht: FTA (1972) and Theater of War (2008)

Penelope Andrew | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Anti-War Films, Film, John W. Walter, Francine Parker, Jane Fonda, Documentary Films, Mother Courage and Her Children, Meryl Streep, Vietnam War, Donald Sutherland, Tony Kushner, Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Holly Near, Anti-War Movements, Johnny Got His Gun, Bertolt Brecht, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Parker, Brecht and Trumbo may have passed on, but anti-war and anti-poverty spirit continue in the genre of the documentary as practiced by the soothsayer Michael Moore.

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Talkin' With Doc Director John Walter About Meryl Streep, a Mother Courage, and Bertolt Brecht

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Bush, George Wolfe, Mother Courage, Oskar Eustis, How to Draw a Bunny, Central Park, Meryl Streep, Bertold Brecht, Tony Kushner, Iraq War, Film Forum, Sundance Film Festival. John Walter, Oscars, Doubt, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

John Walter: "...When you're watching a performance you view it as a consumer and as a critic; you're judging it rather than being in dialogue with it."

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The LGBT Rights Heartbreak and the Great Work Ahead

Tanene Allison | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Hope, Marriage Equality in CA, Civil Rights, No on Prop 8, Tony Kushner, LGBT Rights, Angels in America, The Election, 2008 Election, Better Angels of Our Nature, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Tanene Allison

As the community grieves and seeks to blame whomever we felt did not support us enough, data interpretations may make it all too easy to generalize and stereotype on the road to blame.

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Praise God?

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Tony Kushner, Progressive, God, Martin Luther King, Prop 8, Spirituality, Barack Obama, John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Election, Presidential Results, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Election Analysis, Presidential Election, Living News
Paul Raushenbush

Obama's election does not wipe out the vicious racism of centuries, and Prop 8 shows that there is still work to be done confronting the discrimination of Gay and Lesbian people.

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