My first collaboration with Film Streams took place this week, with a Squishtalk immediately following the screening of Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl. New Yorker Films provides this synopsis: Ousmane Sembene’s debut feature made a profound impression at international...
The remarkable Dave Mullins was the presenter at last week’s Arthaus12 Event Two. Mullins teaches writing and literature at Creighton University and is the author of the novel in short stories, Greetings from Below, which won the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short...
The dehumanizing wrought by drawn out hostility, intolerance and aggression was, as paradoxically as this may sound, beautifully portrayed at Film Streams last week, which showed Declan Keeney’s two documentary films, We Are Not Afraid and We Carried Your Secrets....
“Release the sparrow… ” The first Arthaus for 2012 featured the ebullient talent of slam poet, spoken word performer, and teacher Katie F-S. You can gather a sense of her art by watching this video of her TEDxOmaha presentation, although Katie chose...
A University of Massachusetts Amherst study demonstrates a tendency towards deceit the further removed one is physically from another person. Lying is far more likely in emails than in face-to-face conversation. Not only does physical distance separate our...
I am pleased to be participating in a Project Interfaith Zest Casual Conversation on Politics & Religion. What a topic! Details of this January 24 event are here. Many feel these are subjects that excite, shall we say, too much enthusiasm. The vibrant coffee house...
