By Ernest Kearney — It always pleases me when I revisit a film after many years and find that it’s as good as I
By Steve Schlich — Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious hope that somehow, naming
By Ernest Kearney — In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the
by Ernest Kearney — The origins of Taiko drumming in Japan is lost in that vast attic called history, but the conservative scholars will
by Ernest Kearney — Forough Farrokhzad was the subject of Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black which I recently reviewed at the Wallis Annenberg
By Ernest Kearney — The other night my lovely wife Marlene and I were out walking with a couple of friends, after a pleasant
The audience has come to The Lovelace Studio Theatre in the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, in expectation of a theatrical interpretation of
by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok—author of the
Above: Screen grab from a YouTube video of the 2018 Golden Globes on NBC. There are so many ways to be angry at Trump, and
There are identifiable years in the history of this nation that are shrouded in a foreboding of dire times ahead; 1860, 1877, 1914, 1918,
Imagine a petting zoo where Caffè Latte is served. Or imagine you’re in the mood to find a cat to enhance your life when
by Darwyn Carson — Monopoly, I would wager, was always one of the first go-to games of choice amongst friends and family members. Contributor
Loser! The Tweet Defeat of Donald Trump did not begin with “Liddle’ Bob Corker” and his oh-so-devastating viral tweet: https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920? Wham! Impressive. But first blood was drawn
by Ernest Kearney — I do have a soft spot for weird sci-fi flicks - The History of Future Folk (2013), John Carpenter’s Dark
Some of the most jaw dropping, chill raising, and yes tear inducing, imagery ever shot makes up BBC America’s prequel to its new natural
By Steve Schlich — A lot of people think of our president as a divider, but last weekend he did a frightfully good job
Above: The car used as a murder weapon in Charlottesville. This freeze-frame photo is in the Public Domain. “…there are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,
I’m a big mouth white guy of Irish descent who, most likely, has ancestral ties to former President Barrack Obama, and that statue of
Above: July 18, 2017 MSNBC screen grab. At you thought he couldn’t look stupider! Let’s be truthful about the reason that Republicans can’t come up
Photo above is from Creative Commons: “hacker army 2.0” by Rodrigo Paoletti is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Our culture shoots black men. Kills them. And our culture acquits their killers—if they are the police. This headline grabbed me and shook me,
