Two Steps Back
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to loosen media ownership laws, allowing one company to own television stations that reach…
Features
Counter-Currents and the Joy Quotient
The label “experimental” has been troubling me for a while now. For too many people, the word only conjures up…
Living the Indie Life
The notion of the starving artist is a romantic one. Sepia-toned images float through our collective minds of creative geniuses…
Puerto Rico
I did not come here to kill. I came here to die. – Lolita Lebrón On March 1, 1954, Lolita…
Up to Spec for PBS
Heather Courtney began shooting video of migrant day laborers in Texas as a graduate school thesis project, with few ideas…
CPB Faces Possible Budget Cuts
President Bush’s proposed budgets for 2004 and 2005 will introduce deep cuts and radical changes for the Corporation for Public…
Independents and PBS
The storm clouds gathering on public television’s fiscal horizon, brought on by President Bush’s 2003 proposed budget for the Corporation…
The Media Policy Wars
There is a tremendous and silent battle being fought these days, the effects of which could create a culture (locally,…
San Francisco Screens
In her review of Phil Kaufman’s 1978 remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, legendary film critic Pauline Kael…