Jeff Orlowski is the founder and president of Exposure Labs. Exposure Labs focuses on creating documentaries around areas that need change. He directed the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy awards. Prev...
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of Nigerian and Afro-Brazilian descent, Seal was raised by a foster family in Westminster, London until the age of f...
While there is still a long way to go in terms of positive representation of autism in entertainment media, a select few fictional autistic personalities have achieved an impressive degree of Hollywood fame. Many of these highly-visible portrayals, h...
In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little over $146 million. That money went to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent agency of the fede...
In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little over $146 million. That money went to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent agency of the fede...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero with a long history of leftist activism and educational empowerment of the surrounding campesino com...
On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero with a long history of leftist activism and educational empowerment of the surrounding campesino com...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
“First letter of Cuba, is an open letter [sic] / Born in Miami, right on time / Scarface, El Mariel, Cuban crime [sic] / Here’s the freedom we ride for, here’s the freedom we die for / C-u-b-a hope to see you free one day.” So states Pitbull ...
“First letter of Cuba, is an open letter [sic] / Born in Miami, right on time / Scarface, El Mariel, Cuban crime [sic] / Here’s the freedom we ride for, here’s the freedom we die for / C-u-b-a hope to see you free one day.” So states Pitbull ...
After reports surfaced that NBC was seriously courting Jon Stewart, a comedian and the host of The Daily Show, to host the network’s longest running and arguably most prestigious television program, the mere fact that Stewart was considered has...
After reports surfaced that NBC was seriously courting Jon Stewart, a comedian and the host of The Daily Show, to host the network’s longest running and arguably most prestigious television program, the mere fact that Stewart was considered has...
When The Economist issued its review on Ed Baptist’s The Half of the Story Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism at the beginning of September, it derided Baptist for his lack of objectivity in describing United States ...
When The Economist issued its review on Ed Baptist’s The Half of the Story Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism at the beginning of September, it derided Baptist for his lack of objectivity in describing United States ...
This past week, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, was lambasted in a series of articles for repeatedly requesting that the DNC pay for her wardrobe. Although such a request may seem more befitting to a pop star tha...
This past week, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, was lambasted in a series of articles for repeatedly requesting that the DNC pay for her wardrobe. Although such a request may seem more befitting to a pop star tha...
These days it seems the Big Apple is on a tear. In the last several weeks, we have seen New York City go from strength to strength. It may be hard to believe just after the Oscars, Los Angeles’ show of cultural strength, but New York City is on a s...
These days it seems the Big Apple is on a tear. In the last several weeks, we have seen New York City go from strength to strength. It may be hard to believe just after the Oscars, Los Angeles’ show of cultural strength, but New York City is on a s...
Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive branch to initiate non-media highlighted issues is a good thing – most of the time. Improperly applied, though, th...
Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive branch to initiate non-media highlighted issues is a good thing – most of the time. Improperly applied, though, th...
I’d wager that a considerable number of the general population would describe most modern art as esoteric, derivative, annoying, purposeless or all of the above. Without trying to engage with any of those accusations, though, one can argue fairly e...
I’d wager that a considerable number of the general population would describe most modern art as esoteric, derivative, annoying, purposeless or all of the above. Without trying to engage with any of those accusations, though, one can argue fairly e...
I spent a good part of the weekend watching (most) of season two of “House of Cards.” Without having seen the ending, I can say that season two lacks some of the sizzle of the show’s enjoyable first season. But Kevin Spacey is still...
I spent a good part of the weekend watching (most) of season two of “House of Cards.” Without having seen the ending, I can say that season two lacks some of the sizzle of the show’s enjoyable first season. But Kevin Spacey is still...