Diplomacy v. Debate Among Souls

Diplomacy v. Debate Among Souls

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about diplomacy. Really, about diplomacy v. debate.    In school, we learn to be debate champions. Opposing arguments for opposing viewpoints, listening to opponent’s talking points only to counter them, to bring the audience back to...

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Artists Unite Where Workers Organize

Artists Unite Where Workers Organize

On Civic Duty, with Song

In May and we honor those who serve, first with May Day/ International Workers Day, then with Memorial Day. May also marks the birthday of social activist folk singer-songwriter Pete Seeger (1919-2014) who in solidarity with workers and peace activists sang the honored union song Joe Hill also made popular by socially-conscious artists whose long list includes Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and Paul Robeson.

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Emily @ the Edge of Chaos is an 80-minute movie

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos is an 80-minute movie

COMING SOON
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos is an 80-minute movie that centers on brainiac comedian Emily Levine’s
one woman show, filmed live and then interwoven with animations, special effects, actual scientists and animated characters voiced-by John Lithgow (Sir Isaac Newton); Lily Tomlin (Ayn Rand), Leonard Nimoy (Freud), Richard Lewis (Aristotle), and Fred Willard as a Clydesdale. All these elements work synergistically to further Emily’s – and the movie’s – goal: to save the planet.

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