Timeless impressions
Talent is never enough, at least not in the art world. Of course talent’s important, but timing is everything. And if an artist wanted to be noticed, the early 20th century was no time to be doing Rembrandt. Portrait of Life: The Etchings of Arthur William Heintzelman, at the Memorial Art Gallery, showcases the…
Fighting the long fight: activist Clare Regan
Along the timeline of death penalty reform, 1978 was a relatively slow year. According to Amnesty International, only Denmark outlawed the practice that year. Meanwhile in the US, partly because of contradictory court decisions on the question, society was in a political and moral knot. You get a local feel for this from reading…
Monroe in decline
OK. I’ll ask the question again: just what kind of community do we want?
Fear of a dark horse
“George Pataki is desperate to keep Tom Golisano off the ballot,” reads a recent ad paid for by the Tom Golisano for Governor Committee. Despite Pataki’s commanding lead in the polls so far, that assertion is not as absurd as it sounds. According to a recent Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll, Pataki has a…
Bushites continue their pension attack
Sheriff Bush put on his holster after Wall Street failed to heed Preacher Bush’s sermonettes. The new disguise worked momentarily, and market indicators went up. Townsfolk cheered as three bad guys — Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and sons — were arrested and booked for “one of the most extensive financial frauds ever to take…
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Investing in children, Cuts hurt children, Park pleasures, Caesar’s ghost…
Circles in the corn, field of nightmares
Back in the 1950s, the heyday of the alien invasion flick, it really meant something when those saucers hovered over great cities, zapping buildings and disintegrating people with their death rays, and uniting the world in opposition to defeat the otherwise superior beings from outer space, who of course filled in for the Red Menace.
A brilliant ‘Conversations’
Beginning with its ending and cobbled together via out-of-order celluloid chunks in the vein of Pulp Fiction, Jill Sprecher’s sophomore offering, 13 Conversations About One Thing, (also opening Friday at the Little) is as brilliant a second film as you’re likely to see.
