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Édith Piaf's life in La Vie en Rose: a modern biopic Thursday, June 28, 2007 :Understandably there is both widespread curiosity about the lives of well-known people, including the admirable and the less than admirable, and the desire among artists to produce something that might satisfy the public’s (and their own) curiosity....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 7:06am PDT
It’s Time for a “Caring” Economic Policy Thursday, June 28, 2007 : On June 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m., there were over 13,000 entries returned when the term “S&P 500” was typed into the Google News search box. The initials “NASDAQ” in that box brought up over 50,000 news hits, while NASDAQ on the broader “web” search had over 71 million (!) returns. And on that night, the good ‘ol Dow Jones had over 33 million web hits, and more than 45,000 news hits....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:10am PDT
Sicko the Nation's Health Care? See the Movie and Sign the Petition Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : This Friday, Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Sicko” opens in theaters nationwide. The film peels back the curtain on our nation’s health care industry, revealing the plight of millions of Americans who either lack health insurance entirely or suffer because greedy insurance companies refuse to pay for their prescriptions and procedures....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 8:07pm PDT
Stabbing at Muslims Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses was handed a Knighthood by the Queen of England. He is actually being rewarded for causing controversy in the Muslim world....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:21pm PDT
Sweatshop scandal puts black mark over Beijing Olympics Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :The Chinese government is facing embarrassing accusations that the licensed merchandise for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is being manufactured in sweatshops, in some cases using child labour. While the issue has created something of a scandal in Olympic circles, low pay, long hours and difficult, dangerous conditions are the norm in Chinese industry and have fattened the profits of global corporations for more than two decades....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 11:30pm PDT
Poet Harold Norse’s to read in celebration of 91st Birthday Poet Harold Norse’s to read in celebration of 91st Birthday...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 2:19pm PDT
Damien Hirst's main obsession is wealth, not mortality Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :Damien Hirst remains one of the highest-profile of those artists who came to prominence through the vacuous “Brit-Art” movement. Cynical and showy, his work tends to receive column inches in inverse proportion to its artistic merit. His latest show, “Beyond Belief,” has received major press coverage....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:29am PDT
Afghanistan Seeks to Preserve Minarets Monday, June 25, 2007 : Morning Edition · Afghanistan hopes to turn a collection of medieval minarets into a world heritage site. About 600 years ago a dozen Islamic towers shone with bright tiles outside the ancient city of Heart, in northwestern Afghanistan....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:38pm PDT
The Purple Brain: America's New Reefer Madness Monday, June 25, 2007 : More than 70 years in the making, the long-awaited sequel to the notorious 1936 film, Reefer Madness has arrived. It's called The Purple Brain, and just like its unintentionally campy predecessor, its purpose is to frighten Americans about marijuana....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:53pm PDT
Will the Academy of Art Evict the City's Premier African-American Theatre? Monday, June 25, 2007 : San Francisco African American leaders and Bay Area theatre lovers were shocked earlier this week that the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre could be forced out from its long time home at 620 Sutter Street. The Lorraine Hansberry, which last year celebrate its 25th anniversary and has been cited by theatre critics as one of the premier African American theatre companies in the United States, could lose its performance space because the Academy of Art University (not to be con...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:27am PDT
Pacifism Summer: Revolution Summer Through the Lens of Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology State police, often serving as the order-preserving arms of global capitalism, have a simple formula for dissolving
groups that pose a threat to that order.
This formula has been documented for
decades in the US and has even been
applied against completely nonviolent
groups. According to Ward Churchill
in Pacifism as Pathology, reissued this
year by AK press, the existence of such
a formula brings up an inherent flaw in
the logic of American Liberals and other totally inef...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:39pm PDT
'A Mighty Heart' Misses Karachi's Compassionate Heart Saturday, June 23, 2007 :Pakistan Link , Review, Ras Siddiqui, Posted: Jun 22, 2007 The Paramount Pictures film “A Mighty Heart” is all set to hit the US cinema going audiences on June 22nd. This Michael Winterbottom (“Road To Guantanamo”) directed effort will attract a great deal of curiosity amongst those interested in the life of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl, who was killed in a grizzly fashion (beheaded) in Karachi, Pakistan in the year 2002....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:53am PDT
Acclaimed Palestinian Actor Mohammad Bakri Faces Jail Time in Israel for Documentary Friday, June 22, 2007 :
Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri is one Israel’s most well-known citizens. But since producing a documentary on Israel’s 2002 assault on the West Bank town of Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually blacklisted in Israeli cinema, and now, he even faces possible jail time for making the film....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 11:11pm PDT
‘Sicko’ energizes health care debate Friday, June 22, 2007 :Even before it officially opens in thousands of theaters across the country on June 29, Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Sicko” is already impacting the national health care debate....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:36am PDT
Osama bin Laden to be 'honoured' A group of Pakistani clerics led by a pro-Taliban hardliner have said it would bestow a title upon al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in response to Britain's decision to grant knighthood to Salman Rushdie....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:16am PDT
A Trip Down SICKO Lane with Michael Moore Wednesday, June 20, 2007 : Film maker Michael Moore, whose new film "Sicko" vividly shows the failures of the nation's health care system, and members the California Nurses Association, including union president Deborah Burger (top left), met with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and others to discuss health care reform....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 8:36pm PDT
Connecticut High School Bans Student Play on Iraq War Administrators at Connecticut’s Wilton High School have banned students from performing "Voices in Conflict", a play about the Iraq war, calling it "sensational and inappropriate." We speak with the play’s director, as well as two students involved in the production. We’re also joined by Iraq war veteran Charlie Anderson, whose story is depicted in the play....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 8:05am PDT
Live Wire, Lifeblood: Radio Journalist Tania Ketenjian Enlightens and Nourishes... SF Arts Journalist Tania Ketenjian talks about art, politics, personal expression, marginalization, identity, and the power of dialogue -- and how they are forces for change....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 11:48am PDT
Democracy Now: An Hour with Michael Moore on Sicko and Healthcare Monday, June 18, 2007 :
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore sits down with Democracy Now! ahead of the release of his new film SiCKO. The film is a seething indictment of the US healthcare system. It focuses not on the more than 40 million people who don't have healthcare but on the 250 million who do - many of whom are abandoned by the very health insurance industry they paid into for decades. "They are getting away with murder," Moore said of the health insurance companies. "T...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 7:07pm PDT
"Ahead of "Sicko" Release, Michael Moore Brings Health Care Campaign to California State Assembly Thursday, June 14, 2007 :
Michael Moore's campaign to overhaul the nation's health care industry has officially begun. On Tuesday, the Academy Award winning filmmaker joined 1,000 members of the California Nurses Association in a rally outside the California State House to secure guaranteed health care for all in this country. Moore also testified at an unofficial legislative briefing inside the State House. The organizing coincides with the upcoming release of Sicko, Moore's new documenta...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 8:48am PDT
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