A Chance To Drop The Masks?
While scanning Newsweek the other day, I read the article title, “Recession Dressing”, and thought, “You’ve got to be kidding”. I fully expected a waif article suggesting that we might as well look good as we all blow away in the economic hurricane. I was pleasantly surprised. The author, Sameer Reddy, also bracing for “a […] Read More >
A Different View of the World
My city just hosted a four-day documentary film festival. The festival showcased stories from 25 countries and exposed audiences to a different sense of humanity; a humanity often ignored at the giant Cineplex Odeon. Dinner With The President: A Nation’s Journey, directed by Sabiha Sumar, proceeds with questions in hand about democracy in the Islamic culture […] Read More >
A High Price For a High Life
Just when you thought endless travel, chock-full closets, international adoration and more money than you know what to do with sounds like a good gig, the very same people enjoying all those perks remind the public that it’s not all bells and whistles. Being famous is a trade. It has a cost. There is sacrifice […] Read More >
Access to Life
With stats, figures, and the sheer distance of geography, it’s far too easy to remove ourselves from our brothers and sisters around the world dying from AIDS. A staggeringly emotional project is bringing us a step closer. Access to Life is a partnership between The Global Fund and Magnum Photos. Eight photographers were commissioned to […] Read More >
Bernie Mac Remembered
It always comes as a shock to me when celebrities pass away. They’re so notorious and well-known that maybe it just makes sense to me that they would last forever, like their movies. Bernie Mac died at age 50 from complications to pneumonia last Saturday. He was admitted a week earlier to hospital and was […] Read More >
Brains Plus Beauty
They’ve been on MSNBC, Newsweek, and the Today Show. They’re the purportedly rare combination of brains and beauty. They’re the Nerd Girls and they’re out to bust up some myths! “We’re here to say, you can be not just one-dimensional. You can have everything. You can be smart and athletic and fun and have it […] Read More >
Britney Spears – For The Record
That infamous name never fails to make waves, and usually their tragically large waves. Now the pop starlet behind it is creating some positive waves with a new 90-minute documentary chronicling her comeback set to air November 30th on MTV. In it, filmmaker Phil Griffin plucks three months out of Spears’ life to tack to […] Read More >
Call + Response
There are more slaves in our world today than at any other time in human history. Over 1/3 of all prostitutes in South and East Asia are children. More than 17,500 people are trafficked into the US each year. Huge statistics like these exist on paper, but musician Justin Dillon is trying to give them […] Read More >
Celebrities Tangled Up in Red and Blue
Celebrities backing politians – it’s the thing to do every four years. If you’re Halle Berry or Beyonce, you don an Obama t-shirt. If you’re Rosario Dawson, you work the floor of the Republican convention. If you’re Elizabeth Hasselbeck, you make your own homemade t-shirt hoisting McCain up as a hero. And if you’re Heidi […] Read More >
Facebook: Why all the love?
In the four short years since it’s inception Facebook has taken over like the plague; it’s everywhere. Read More >