Singer-Songwriter / Author
Dar Williams is a singer-songwriter and author of What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time.
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Dar Williams on how to rebuild small town America Since the 1970s, the movie It’s a Wonderful Life has screened every Christmas in the U.S., fueling nostalgia for small town America. That’s even as people have left small towns in droves, heading for jobs and culturally interesting lives in bigger, mostly coastal cities.
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Spike Lee and John David Washington on ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Could this be the year the Academy finally nominates Spike Lee for Best Director or Best Picture? ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is looking like a contender. The film is based on the true story of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who went undercover with the KKK in the 1970s.
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Documentary challenges how black life is portrayed on screen In his directorial debut, RaMell Ross ruminates on how black life has been portrayed. “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” focuses on the lives of people trying to eke out a living in Alabama’s catfish industry. It’s shortlisted for an Oscar.
Art Talk
Broken Family Reunited on Museum Walls Edward Goldman talks about the passing of the legendary Sister Wendy, and the moral responsibility of museums to reunite divided artworks.
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LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last? Thirty-one thousand LAUSD teachers, nurses, librarians, and counselors went on strike this morning. They want a salary increase, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more staff. The district says it can’t afford all that. We see what happened on the picket lines.