Culture Watch

Duane Shank 3-01-2003

The genius of American jazz is using an unexpected note or chord to add an element of surprise when the music goes where you least expect.

The high cost of corporate radio.

Philip Morris is the public face of American tobacco.

Barry Moser 3-01-2003

I have just begun reading Donna Tartt's new novel The Little Friend...

Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2003

One of the many and fruitful exaggerations in Yann Martel's Life of Pi is the assertion, made by a minor character, that Pi's story will "make you believe in God."

Judy Coode 3-01-2003

It's likely that the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with Gypsies, homosexuals, and others considered ethnically or socially deficient) is the most well-documented...

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2003

Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said.

Molly Marsh 3-01-2003

Divine Music

As this is written, rescue workers are still separating the bodies from the bamboo after the terrorist bombing of a nightclub in Bali.

Nathan Wilson 1-01-2003

Thomas Patterson says that the juice has been squeezed out of elections for Americans...

Marshela Salgado 1-01-2003

More than 30 years into his career, nine Grammys, and dozens of tours, 55-year-old Carlos Santana's music continues to evolve, and he's bringing another generation along for the ride.

Diana Ortiz 1-01-2003

Sister Dianna Ortiz was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan security forces in November 1989 while serving as a missionary there.

Molly Marsh 1-01-2003
An interview with Chris Hedges on our love affair with war.
1-01-2003

The first time I played Waterdeep's new album for my housemates, they were up and dancing within seconds.

Bill Mallonee 1-01-2003

What are my favorite things for listening to, watching, and perusing? Well...

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2003

Filmmaker Michael Moore loves to pick at the sores of America's self-delusions, and he's really good at it.

Jesus, Jazz, and Justice

The Editors 11-01-2002

The Gathering of Spirits, by Carrie Newcomer.

Wayne A. Holst 11-01-2002

Mohandas K. Gandhi, political liberator of India and Hindu spiritual master, sought to translate Jesus' Sermon on the Mount into a practical political philosophy.

Charles A. Kimball 11-01-2002

A propensity toward evil within religious communities always provides warning signs, says Charles Kimball, professor, Baptist minister, and expert analyst on the Middle East.