The punchline to those lone criminal charges—as it’s told in this film by Hoop Dreams [1994] director Steve James—is that Abacus didn’t even contribute to the crisis.
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
CIFF CAPSULE: “MAINELAND”
While accommodating on a technical level, they meet the foreign students with typical condescension: signs for “English-only common spaces,” classes that begin with “so where are you from” conversations, that whole routine.
KEEP CALM AND LADIESCON
“Choosing to focus on women is not about excluding other people… It’s just about we’re changing the focus over to women.”
OUTSIDE THE SPRAY PAINT
Street and graffiti artists are the tastemakers, and now, with more canvases available in the form of new developments and high-rises, these artists have a chance to capitalize and dictate where they want the culture to go.
BOOKS: A DIG Q+A WITH SKYLAR KERGIL AKA SKYLARKELEVEN
From sports-loving tomboy, to Boston pride parades, to finding his community online
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? SHEEP
THE STRANGERER
GUIDED TOUR: ON KOGONADA’S “COLUMBUS”
One specific visual composition recurs constantly throughout Columbus [2017], a movie that mostly consists of dialogue scenes between one man and one woman. That recurring shot, in a way, is a three-hander: the man and the woman usually take up the right and the left sides of the foreground—often blocked so that we’re seeing […]
MANIFEST DESTINY, MINUS THE MEN
Director Dawn M. Simmons talks Men on Boats at SpeakEasy Stage
UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE
A Q+A with BC sociology professor Charles Derber on his new book Why did you decide to publish a book on “universalizing resistance” at this particular moment in history? Because our survival is at stake. Universalizing resistance is a path toward dismantling the militarized capitalism before it wipes us all out. Climate change and […]
