From the 1980s to today, independent screenplays have used a distinct approach to cinematic storytelling.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Ridge recently performed in “A Night in November”. It’s a one-man play about a Protestant clerk in Northern Ireland who decides to forsake the legacy of prejudice and hate.
Ian Kelly performs a one-man play called “Cooking for Kings.” It tells the story of Antonin Careme, who was Napoleon’s chef.
James Carse is the author of "The Religious Case Against Belief." He talks with Steve Paulson about the definition of religion and argues that one can be a religious person without believing in God.
Prohibition gave us speakeasies, jazz clubs and bathtub gin. But a new revisionist history uncovers a more disturbing legacy: campaigns against immigrants, the War on Drugs,and the rise of America's "incarceration nation" . Historian Lisa McGirr's "War on Alcohol" traces the unintended consequences of America's experiment in collective, state-sponsored renunciation.
Part of what makes city life great is the creative people who live in - and shape - them.
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is the author of "The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction."
James Miller has written a fascinating book called “Examined Lives," a collection of short biographies of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche...
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