The international Bicycle Film Festival left Minneapolis this week and headed westward; the festival starts screening tonight in Los Angeles and begins in San Francisco on Wednesday. Before leaving the Twin Cities, the BFF treated Minnesotans to a full day of screenings at the Theatre de la Jeune Lune….
The famous collage of Barack Obama looking pensively over the word “hope,” is on the auction block today, and with a current bid of $80,000....
We need more sing-alongs. Before you start picturing barbershop quartets or the Utne Reader staff kumbaya-ing around a campfire, know that the suggestion comes from musician and producer Brian Eno in Resurgence, and he's not writing about office bonding or spangled matching outfits....
At an interfaith summit in Spain yesterday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called for religions to join together in the fight against religious extremism. Is this a step towards religious harmony or a dangerous distraction to difficult questions?...
Hollywood has been bombarding moviegoers with apocalyptic visions, from 2007’s No Country for Old Men to the current Disney/Pixar darling, Wall-E. Faced with their bleak depictions of the future (Wall-E lightens it up for the kids, of course), religion is sometimes offered as a countervailing, hopeful force against such dark visions....