“The mainstream publishers have their audience, but there is an audience for a poetry that does something a little different — I wish there were better words than experimental and avant garde — and an audience that appreciates collaborative, artistic design.”
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Art for vets’ sake
“A lot of the time I’ll be sitting around the house, thinking about the war and stuff. And because of all of that I mostly keep to the house. So when I get in a mood I’ll get out my paintbrush.”
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Vets & PTSD: Healing war’s hidden scars
Savannah joins San Diego, Ann Arbor and Boston as a point where vets can help doctors develop future protocol for PTSD.
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Our Town: Life stories
It’s not spoiling things to say that Our Town gives us everything “from womb to tomb” — two of the central events are a wedding and a funeral.
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Review: 12 Years a Slave
Like Roots, 12 Years a Slave turns to recorded history to gather the evidence, but because it’s an R-rated movie rather than a prime-time-friendly TV show, the ghastly sights and accompanying sounds on display in this new piece will disturb far more deeply.
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Film Festival: A boy & his tiger
“Anybody who has made a movie can attest to the fact that making films is hard. It takes a long time, it’s not cheap. You finish film school and you’re ready to make movies, and the reality is, you also need to make a living.”
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Film Festival: Horns of Plenty
“These guys were playing on the street, so I assumed that any help they could get, they would take. I didn’t realize that wasn’t the case! One of them said to me, ‘Yeah, yeah, you want to support us? Best thing you could do is buy some CDs.'”
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Film Festival: Better dead than Fed
“We could be subsidizing education, paying teachers, investing in infrastructure and R&D. But we’re subsidizing the financial sector through the Fed.”
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Review: Last Vegas
Don’t expect to see a geriatric version of The Hangover – the film is better than that.
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Carbo load with Connect
“It makes people feel comfortable because it’s a tradition,” explains Espinoza, who has helped coach hundreds — possibly thousands — of runners to the finish line.
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Heroes in unusual places
‘Instead of going to a small community and performing, this was really a two-way street. We asked, what does dance mean to you and your community? And we got some amazing stories.’