Annals Of The Hive

I wrote this five years ago, right after Charles Ferguson won his Academy Award.  I think I have a pretty good idea now what Wall Street pla...

Every race has a dark horse, running at long odds. In this year's race for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, the dark horse m...

Whether or not Exit Through The Gift Shop  wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary, British artist Banksy's light-hearted romp throu...

View Larger Map As you zoom in, the arrow points to the opening of Afghanistan's Korengal Valley at the Pech River, northwest of Asad...

When she finished reading  Into The Wild,  my daughter wrote " one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience "...

A child is born into a world of phenomena, all equal in their power to enslave. It sniffs, it sucks, it strokes its eyes over the whole, unc...

The tide of popular culture turns amazingly fast. The rise of one myth flows in over the ebb of another, wiping out all traces of the recedi...

Apparently, somebody convinced Suzanne Collins that the narrative of The Hunger Games, her teeny-bopper dystopian novel, needed some "f...

A long time ago, I figured out the only reason to create anything is that no one else has.  The books I want to write are the books I want t...

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...