Archive for January, 2009

Artsy-Dartsy

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

There they go again! A few right-wingers who want to defeat the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan now before Congress are using one of its smallest provisions, a $50 million supplemental allocation to the National Endowment for the Arts, as a dart they hope will let the air out of the bill.
There aren’t a [...]

Hope

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

That cloud of energy that enveloped the National Mall this morning, the vapor of an simultaneous exhalation synchronizing the breathing of millions to the beat of one brave and honorable man’s heart! Hope was in the air and relief soared alongside, like two birds in flight: we survived eight years of George W. Bush and [...]

Complicating the Story

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

On New Year’s Day, we saw the film Cadillac Records. After drying our eyes, we sat for a few minutes in the empty theater speculating about why such a wonderful film hadn’t done better at the box office.
Since opening on December 5, it’s earned less than $8 million (as opposed to Marley & [...]