Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu arrivals for December 2020. This month’s titles include Stanley Kubrick’s final film, the…
This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank…
Administrative duties are only one dimension of Musa Hadid’s job as mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital and cultural center of the Palestinian State. Aside from putting out fires, sometimes literally, in a town with a large Christian population—a…
A few years ago, one would have gaffed at the idea of Stephy Tang being labeled as a serious thespian in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. But following her awards-worthy turn in 2017’s judo drama The Empty Hands, Tang punched…
★★★ Written and Directed by: #DavidJStern Starring: #John Healy, #JennaSokolowski, #EmilyClassen, #AndyBrownstein and #JonathanHirsch Film review by: Brian Penn To lose a loved one is a shock from which we never truly recover. Part of us goes with them and…
Valle Crucis was founded by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd and the “White Monks” of the Cistercian order in 1201. The name Valley Crucis derives from Latin and means Valley of the Cross. The name is thought to refer to the…
Sometimes it takes a personal attack to turn someone into an activist. Consider J.K. Rowling, the progressive author who took a stand against Cancel Culture when it turned on her … with a vengeance. Woke comic Sarah Silverman decried losing…
The woman on a dock. It’s an image used in cinema so much that it’s basically a cliché, the distant figure nearly always gazing out at the water as if contemplating possibilities, perched on the edge of a choice. It’s…
Nestled in the hills of Brown County, Indiana, just off of State Road 46, sits a peculiar green barn, covered in dirty socks. It’s a well known stop for hikers on the Tecumseh Trail. A few years ago, the young…
The Trinity Apse was founded in 1462 by the Queen Mary of Gueldres, after the death of her husband King James II. An apse is the portion of a church, usually with an arched or domed roof and containing an…