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The University of Rochester's Department of Rare Books, Special Collection and Preservation acquired a collection from Henry Ignacio Padrón-Morales, a longtime activist, educator, musician and poet.
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The newest film from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong is just waiting to detonate. Instead, the plot of “Possible Love” simmers as a documentary project brings two families on different ends of a violent workers’ strike suppression together. Director Lee’s films always have a slow burn (his most recent feature from 2018 was named “Burning,” […] The post REVIEW | ‘Possible Love’ appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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Twenty years ago, Nick DiBella walked into Schutt’s Apple Mill in Webster and immediately had an epiphany. He compared the feeling to being struck by lightning. “Suddenly, I could see a television show in that place,” said DiBella, local filmmaker and co-founder of Faith Street Films. “I could see young people working on the farm, […] The post Western New York takes the spotlight in locally produced TV show ‘Abilene’ appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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Lee Chang-dong's novelistic drama tells the story of two very different couples who meet during the filming of a documentary. -
Like its protagonist, the film shoots out its goopy, mud-brown, protoplasmic feelers into the undiscovered territory of horror, but it does so too tentatively. -
Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences. -
"There's an understandable pull in my industry to make things ... super safe, super familiar," Gilpin says. She wants to go the other way. Gilpin currently stars in the noir drama The Lowdown. -
In '72, filmmaker William Greaves hosted a cocktail party for the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance. Our critic says the footage is "like watching a 50th college reunion set on Mt. Olympus."
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British Adventurer Karl Bushby left Chile with the goal of walking an unbroken path back to his childhood home in England. Now, 28 years later, his Goliath Expedition is coming to a close. -
A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. -
Since his 2015 debut album, Leon Bridges has transformed himself from a Sam Cooke-style crooner into a shape-shifting singer of all things from mambo to disco. His new album is called Happiness Anytime. -
It is hard not to fall in love with Katherine Browne, the eager to please, mini-skirted narrator in Barbara Trapido's 40-plus-year-old debut novel, reissued this month. -
Comic artist Dabin Han shares how backpacking as a novice has helped her push through discomfort and allowed her to make new friends across the country. -
Here's what's behind the fluctuating costs of everyday grocery items such as ground beef, eggs and chocolate chip cookies. -
One of NPR's most gifted storytellers, his soft voice and vivid writing helped define the network's sound for a generation of Americans.
