One of the most legendary figures in zine culture and spoken word music, David Greenberger, is the subject of new documentary "Beyond the Duplex Planet" which premieres March 12 at Austin's South By Southwest festival. Go here for showtimes.
I've known about Greenberger for a long time; I began publishing a zine in the early 1990's and then an e-zine version of it in 1995....
In 2016, Parma, Ohio resident Anthony Novak created a Facebook page parodying his local police department. Though he deleted it after one day, soon afterwards he was arrested for an obscure felony: "disrupting public services." Though he won his trial, his lawsuit was dropped and this lead to the head writer of the comedy publication "The Onion" writing an amicus brief for the Supreme...
Marialuisa Ernst's heartbreaking and inspiring documentary "A Place of Absence" follows her and the Caravan of Mothers, women who have relatives who were disappeared...
ABOVE: Willie Land (far left) and George Adams (right) at the J.H. Rowe School memorial, Jasper,TX, September 16, 2024. Photograph by Alan Govenar.
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Noam Shuster Eliassi's unique career as a pro-peace progressive turned comedian is portrayed in Amber Fares' eye-opening and funny documentary "Coexistance, My Ass." The...
Patrick McCollum has filled his 75 years of life with a colorful assortment of occupations: jewelry designer for UK royalty, kung fu instructor, carnival...
Overlooked pioneer Bunny Yeager left her modeling career to start a highly successful business as a pinup photographer. Once called "the world's prettiest photographer,"...
Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis...
