Category: Culture
Peter Sarsgaard, Best Actor at Venice, Reflects on Acting, AI and the Actors’ Strike
by | Sep 25, 2023 | AI, CulturePeter Sarsgaard (Garden State, The Lost Daughter, Blue Jasmine, Jarhead, Jackie, Shattered Glass) won Best Actor at this year’s Venice Film Festival for his performance in Memory, the new film from the director Michel Franco, starring Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain. In his acceptance speech, sanctioned by an interim agreement from his union, Sarsgaard poignantly captures […]
The Nexus Book Review
by Will Novosedlik | Jul 5, 2023 | BooksIt’s London at the end of the 21st century. Still in the early stages of reconstruction in the wake of a global holocaust, the once great city lies in ruins but is cloaked in an augmented reality that makes it look exactly as it did before the world collapsed in a decades-long storm of environmental […]
Artists Rally for Equality and Inclusion in Tennessee
by WS Editors | Mar 8, 2023 | CultureANNOUNCING LOVE RISING Featuring Allison Russell, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Brothers Osborne, Hayley Williams, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Maren Morris, Mya Byrne, Sheryl Crow, The Rainbow Coalition Band, Yola and more TBA March 20 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN Presented by Live Nation A Benefit Concert for Tennessee […]
Power Concedes Nothing—How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections
by Peter Olney | Aug 31, 2022 | BooksMy wife stood aghast as I rapped on the passenger-side window of the late model sedan exiting a driveway in Salem, New Hampshire, in the fall of 2016. The car stopped, and a woman rolled down her window and listened patiently to my pitch on why she should vote for Hillary Clinton for president. As […]
Inexplicable Verité: The Lessons of Trump’s Unknown First TV Project
by Hugh Taylor | May 3, 2022 | TelevisionIs it still acceptable to be fixated on Donald Trump’s iron grip on millions of Americans? While most people seem to have moved on, I’d argue that getting to a true understanding of his appeal is still of vital interest. Indeed, people’s lives may depend on it. Election officials continue to receive death threats for […]