Tag: Arts & Culture

The Line Between Free Speech and Anti-Discrimination

Jack Phillips, a cakemaker, and Lorie Smith, a graphic designer, want to use their artistry to create products and services that align with their faith, protected under the First Amendment. However, Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act compels companies to act against their beliefs and silences businesses from voicing their belief statements. After winning his first court case,…


5,000 Australians Expected in ‘Nutbush’ World Record Attempt to Honour Tina Turner

In potentially Australia’s biggest tribute to Tina Turner, who passed away on May 24, Australians are preparing to set a new world record for the most people dancing the Nutbush, a line dance based on the semi-autobiographical song of the American-born singer. Music festival organisers are hoping to reach 5,000 dancers on July 6 this…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Only Angels Have Wings’: We’re Never Alone

NR | 2 h 1 min | Drama | 1939 Affable “Dutchy” Van Ruyter (Sig Ruman) runs a troubled airfreight service from the South American port of Barranca to the United States. His cynical but skilled chief pilot Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) and his corps risk their lives navigating fog that’s often, as one pilot…


The Emotional Paintings of Hugo van der Goes

The exhibition “Hugo van der Goes: Between Bliss and Pain” at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie gathers most of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings for the first time since Hugo van der Goes’s death 540 years ago. This exhibit is an outstanding feat due to the rarity of surviving works, as well as their frequently large format….


Film Review: ‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’: Portrait of an American Treasure

TV-PG | 2h 00min | Documentary, Biography | 26 May 2023 (USA) With the possible exception of Lucille Ball, no American woman has had a greater impact on the generations of comediennes who followed in her wake quite as much as Mary Tyler Moore. Known mostly for her roles as a spunky homemaker on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (“Van Dyke”)…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Penny Serenade’: Sharing Is the Lifeblood of Love

NR | 1 hr 59 min | Drama | 1941 Handsome newspaper reporter Roger (Cary Grant) marries pretty Julie (Irene Dunne), who works in a shop selling music records. His job takes them from America to Japan, but they return after she, expecting their first child, miscarries following an earthquake. He quits his job so…


Angel Studios: An Alternative to Woke Entertainment

Angel Studios, the crowdfunded platform founded by Neal, Jeff, and Jordan Harmon, is expanding its content and continuing to bring stories that illuminate a better and more noble world. The platform helps counter woke narratives in much of the entertainment world today and offers an alternative choice based on faith and values. The media company…


Book Recommendation: ‘Gila Lost and Found: Search and Rescue in New Mexico’

I have a special fondness for New Mexico and its intrinsic natural beauty. Many of my cousins (on my mother’s side) reside there, predominantly around Albuquerque and Socorro. Known as “The Land of Enchantment,” New Mexico is a large state, ranking fifth among the 50 in total area, and boasting a range of landscapes from…


Film Review: ‘It Ain’t Over’: Yogi Berra Documentary’s a Home Run

PG | 1h 38 m | Sports, Documentary | May 12, 2023 As a football fan, I was always primarily aware of the late Yogi Berra as an American cultural icon. My baseball-fan dad also knew the man born as Lorenzo Pietro Berra for the legendary New York Yankee ballplayer he was. Sports documentary “It Ain’t Over,” Sean…


Book Review: ‘The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs’

In his follow up to his incredible debut, “The Bucharest Dossier,” William Maz takes the reader on an adventure back to Bucharest a few years after the dismantling of the USSR, the fall of communism, and Romania’s Christmas Revolution. “The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs” is the second in the series, of which,…