Suzume Iwato is your typical 17-year-old Japanese girl, which means it’s up to her to save the world. One morning while on break between classes, Suzume and her friends’ cell phones all light up with earthquake warning messages. It’s not … Continue reading SUZUME (すずめの戸締まり)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Air and Paint, both out now in theaters. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
With a tightly wound blond perm, a smoker’s pipe and a voice that registers just north of a whisper, Carl Nargle is one of the biggest draws on Burlington, Vermont public television. Broadcasting daily from 3 to 4 p.m., Carl … Continue reading PAINT
A shoe is just a shoe. Until someone steps into it. That’s Nike’s mantra, repeated by the man who designs the shoes, the man who markets the shoes, and the man who is on the cusp of revolutionizing them. A … Continue reading AIR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about A Thousand and One, the newly released winner of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize; a new documentary about an … Continue reading
If necessity is the mother of invention, then Inez de la Paz needs to invent a new life for herself and her little boy. Terry is 6 years old and drowning in the New York foster care system. Inez doesn’t … Continue reading A THOUSAND AND ONE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Boston Strangler times two. Two true crime narratives based on the 1960s serial murders from two different perspectives with two surprisingly different conclusions. … Continue reading
Boston was in a panic. Thirteen women were murdered from June 1962 to January 1964. All were in their homes; all were alone. There was no evidence of forced entry, and though the cabinets and dressers were ransacked, police couldn’t … Continue reading THE BOSTON STRANGLER
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Runner, newly restored and making the art-house theater rounds, and join the chorus of voices asking for your support. It’s KGNU’s Spring Fund Drive, don’tcha … Continue reading
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