Culture Watch

Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home on the west side of Jackson, Mississippi.

Oscar time is a'coming, and with it another chance to consider the relationship between Steven Spielberg's world and our own.

Judy Coode 3-01-1998
The movement to close the School of the Americas.
Dan Buchanan 3-01-1998
Violence in Barbara Ehrenreich's Blood Rites.
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-1998
The poetry of Denise Levertov, 1923-1997
Catherine Preus 3-01-1998
Fiction and fact intertwined.
Renny Golden 3-01-1998
The importance of learning to listen.
Marty Haugen 3-01-1998
The role of music in the church universal.
Eugenie de Rosier 3-01-1998

Why the sex industry thrives.

Bob Hulteen 3-01-1998

In Kevin Costner's new dystopic fantasy, The Postman, the future is bleak save for the responsible individualism of the director-star.

Brett Grainger 1-01-1998
The second coming of Salt of the Earth
Chris Byrd 1-01-1998
The child martyrs of the civil rights movement.
Duane Shank 1-01-1998
Recovering our Jewish roots.
Neil Elliott 1-01-1998
A "New Age" St. Paul explains.
Dale W. Brown 1-01-1998
A novel of staying awake to injustice.
Marcy Tveidt 1-01-1998
Ritual markings of lifelong transitions.
Bob Hulteen 1-01-1998

Did you survive the holidays?

Conversations about rock-and-roll music inevitably come up in my life. If the guitars and amp stored in my office don’t start it, the row of recent CDs on our living room bookshelf does.

Rose Marie Berger 1-01-1998
Hollywood visits China.
Anne Wayne 11-09-1997
The subversive nature of oral history.