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Gratitude journals and Donald Trump may be easy prey for someone with Finley's arts and smarts, but the legendary performance artist continues to find new, sometimes startling angles of analysis and attack.
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Robert L. Camina discusses the making of his documentary that screened at last week's San Antonio Film Festival.
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In the touring production from Shakespeare's Globe, Jonathan Pryce stands out as a thought-provoking and humanized Shylock.
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In "Alistair 1918," which screened at this year's San Diego Comic-Con Independent Film Festival, a film crew encounters a homeless man claiming to have been transported to present-day Los Angeles from a WW I battlefield.
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Have you traveled to award winning restaurant NOMA in Japan to have their roast duck or ants on a shrimp?
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One-on-one with film and television composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, etc.)
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I wanted to travel off the edge of the world. Kamchatka, at Russia's far eastern edge, is probably as close as today's globetrotter can get.
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