Reading Time: 4 minutes Larry Doby was the second African American to play Major League Baseball. His road to greatness was no less difficult for being second
Category: A&E
Powell River celebrates its progressive roots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to be performed at PRISMA. In 1913, the ballet caused a riot in Paris and unleashed a mad torrent of modernity on the members of Parisienne high society
Ronald Reagan’s remarkable mission to Moscow
Reading Time: 4 minutes The American president’s loathing for nuclear weapons and his desire to see new freedoms in the Soviet Union framed his trip
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens
Marxism “the opium of the intellectuals”
Reading Time: 4 minutes On the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, let’s admit Marxism has nothing useful to say to the modern world
Entertainment as diversity propaganda
Reading Time: 4 minutes Television has taken it upon itself to correct social wrongs. But it doesn’t fairly represent the mosaic of our society
Discovering Monet’s lifelong fascination with architecture
Reading Time: 4 minutes London’s National Gallery exhibit offers rare glimpses into the artist’s examination of the play of light on human structures
Rolling the gender boulder up the broadcast hill ignores bigger issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CRTC should be far more concerned about the role of women within the telecommunications industry than in TV
Why authoritarian populists are destined to fail
Reading Time: 4 minutes A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
A gentle giant of a man, a larger-than-life icon
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new documentary about pro wrestler André the Giant paints an engrossing portrait