Annals Of The Hive

The 83rd Academy Award nominations for documentary film were announced last week.  Collectively, this year's nominees documented the glo...

In 1960, Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow teamed up to make Harvest of Shame.  The film was Murrow's last television documenta...

James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) is a significant motion picture event, designed to revive a floundering industry by providing a 3D experience ...

The Republicans in Congress are trying to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National ...

I woke up this morning in a new world. Last night, I learned Michigan used to be on the equator. It was completely covered by warm, salt w...

Winter lasts longer on this side of the lake. At least it seems to. And we've been traveling in the ice and snow more this year than w...

I woke up early and went down to the Corner Bakery for a cup of coffee. I sat at the window, next to a table of Russians. I couldn't u...

My daughter was home today, complaining about having to get out of bed because the maid was coming. The maid's a woman from Brazil. Her ...

In 1926, the Russian film maker, Vsevolod Pudovkin, created one of film's most famous metaphors by cutting back and forth between images...

The power went out in our neighborhood late this afternoon. Still light enough with the shades up to search for candles and the kerosene lam...

Sitting in my wife's car in the garage tonight, lights on, windshield wipers going, it's easy to see how people get depressed. I...