"Reading Rainbow," which ran on PBS from 1983 until 2006, is remembered with love in a new documentary, "Butterfly in the Sky." Kevin Makin reviews it for @csmonitor. "Ultimately, the documentary is more of a triumph than a requiem. Aside from its praise of programming that advocates for literacy and of [LeVar] Burton himself, there’s a sense of humanity that perseveres and goes beyond the warmness of nostalgia. Maybe it’s watching the smiling kids who became loving adults. Or it could be watching the series’ founders speak about familial ties that went beyond educational rhetoric," he writes.
The documentary was not broadcast in #Canada. Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in #UnitedKingdom is the #Drax Power Station in #England.
This analysis focuses on north central BC, where all material feeding #Drax’s pellet mills originates from #PrimaryForest, whether it arrives directly from #logging operations or byproduct from sawmills. Majority of commercial logging taking place in BC is of #OldGrowth#forests.
@msquebanh This is such a massive problem with the lunacy of Drax. Drax apparently cannot remotely satisfy its needs by mowing down and pelletizing the American south east, and now is pulling trees from Washington, Oregon, Montana, and now BC.
#MattLieb's conversation with progressive #israel|i stand-up comic Noam Shuster-Eliassi about the state of #IsraeliPolitics and the #IsraeliLeft (such as it is) in the wake of Oct 7th.
Lil Nas X being so open about his life and experience as a queer hip-hop artist is going to be one hell of a great watch! It's available for streaming in so many places that I will watch this documentary at some point.
Remember the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature documentary “Super Size Me?"
Its director, Morgan Spurlock, died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53. Variety has his obituary: https://flip.it/emMZIy
#HotDocs is expected to publicly announce the #layoffs and closure of its #TedRogersCinema on Wednesday afternoon, changes which it says are necessary "to address urgent #financial challenges."
an american documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris. In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city.
Die-In For Life-In Gaza, 18th May 2024, Old Town in Warsaw, Poland
Organized by the collectives Wschód and Kefija, it was a die-in protest commemorating 76th anniversary of Nakba - the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the war in Palestine in 1948. Particularly significant in the context of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
I'm not Rafał Milach and I'll cut my usual irrelevant yadda-yadda to say this: if you know enough of history, either of your own country or theirs, it's very hard not to feel sympathy to those folks. Listening to their stories was incredibly heart-wrenching.