Culture Watch

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.
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.
Anne Wayne 11-09-1997
The subversive nature of oral history.
Scott Robinson 11-09-1997
The arts and the churches' vocation. Second of two parts.
Neil Elliott 11-09-1997
The film industry and presidential violence.
Cuban music beats the embargo.
Kari Jo Verhulst 11-09-1997

Young girls tell of the Holocaust.

Danny Duncan Collum 11-09-1997

The defining cultural struggle of the early 21st century will be between the local and the global. This is already familiar ground in this column.

Bob Hulteen 11-09-1997

Checking out the fall TV line-up, I was overwhelmed with nostalgia when I saw that the Walt Disney Co.

Jennifer Thaney 9-01-1997
Mumia Abu-Jamal's persistent hope.
Thad Williamson 9-01-1997
The dangers and possibilities of globalization.
Scott Robinson 9-01-1997
The church as custodian of culture.
Bob Hulteen 9-01-1997

Liturgical seasons bring my life order: In them, as well as the growing seasons of Minnesota, I re-enact the drama of life and death.

Kimberly Burge 9-01-1997

Van Morrison and Bruce Cockburn explore the dark on new releases.

The settlement between the tobacco companies and the 40 state attorneys general has been widely noted as a landmark in public health and consumer safety. And it is.

Brett Grainger 9-01-1997
The eclectic, infectious sound of acid jazz.