Stories about Poverty
Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…
Retro delights on tap, including Dr. Ruth and 8-track tapes, plus French hustlers, a Merce Cunningham tribute, and more in cinemas this week.
Homeless, at the airport
The view from LaGuardia, where people hide and move along and live in a world where there's no place for poor people to go.
Examined Life: On shaky ground
In a city where everyone and everything is constantly changing, we have a lot to fear. But even more to learn.
Homeless people — in cages
A poverty scholars national tour finds people locked up in St. Petersburg.
From Mali to Memphis: Dee Dee Bridgewater fires up the soul of her youth
The brilliant blues-jazz singer digs deep into her past for latest release—and puts one over on Elvis.
Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….
Campy Australian horror, RIP Albert Finney, a Chinese gangster epic, Albany Film Fest, and more in cinemas this week.
The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’
When did taking people's possessions, destroying their shelter, and leaving them to suffer in the rain become the new normal?
Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….
Mapplethorpe, Styx, Giant Little Ones, tributes to Delphine Seyrig and Hirokazu Kore-eda, and more in cinemas this week.
Venezuela: Democratic uprising or US coup?
Trump is strangling the country while US oil companies envision big profits.
‘Take back our lives:’ The words of poverty scholars
A new book is a declaration of emergency and a guide book to regaining our bodies, spirits, hearts and minds.