Recognizing that the oldest General Motors (GM) plant in the nation was shutting down an hour and 15 minutes from his doorstep and wanting to tell an insightful story about the recession that would resonate nationwide...
Republican vice
presidential nominee Paul Ryan lit up the Republican National Convention (RNC)
when he blamed President Barack Obama for failing to save the General Motors
(GM) plant in Janesville, Wis., Ryan’s hometown...
Although the Israeli documentary The
Flat explores the shadows cast by the Holocaust over survivors,
perpetrators and their descendants, it’s also an essay with universal
significance on memory...
San
Francisco-based Phil Cousineau
has 15 documentary screenwriting credits, beginning in 1987 with The Hero’s
Journey, focusing on his mentor Joseph Campbell and predating the Bill Moyers
series of Campbell interviews...
With his new “folk music” album Americana, a documentary film going into theaters this summer titled Journeys and his memoirs forthcoming this fall, it is impossible to dispute the prodigious artistry of Neil Young. Separating Young from...
Despite the misnomer—2012 is actually the 26th anniversary of Graceland—this two-CD/two-DVD set places Paul Simon's seventh and finest album in greater context. Inspired by a cassette tape the singer-songwriter received featuring the street music...
Sometimes an artistic life inspires healing and redemption. These qualities permeate the work of Lon Michels in his exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery, titled “Lon Michels: Life Lived Large.” Raised in Marquette, Wis., Michels...