by Jack Brown | May 7, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
Celebrity is a funny thing. Usually, it charts along one or two familiar trajectories: the discovery of some young talent, followed by either the long work of career-building or the short decline of a crash-and-burn. But once in awhile, someone captures the public...
by Jack Brown | Apr 30, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
So few of us follow our deepest drives — it’s a path that leads along high wires and narrow ledges, and for many, the fear of failing big keeps us dreaming small. On the other end of human experience is a man like Milford Graves. Graves is a renowned percussionist who...
by Jack Brown | Apr 20, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Newsletter
If you caught the 2016 screening of Khalik Allah’s Field Niggas at Amherst Cinema, you got an early look at the filmmaker’s meditative and searching vision. That film, an hour-long gaze at the faces and bodies of the men and women passing through an East Harlem...
by Jack Brown | Apr 16, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Newsletter
American schools — and the teachers and students that fill their halls — have been in the news quite a bit lately. More and more, it seems that the reality of the classroom has become lost in a fog of “thoughts and prayers.” But it isn’t only during the...
by Jack Brown | Apr 6, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Newsletter
After a long winter, spring has returned to Western Mass. And with it, as hotly anticipated as any crocus, comes a new season of Red Sox baseball. It’s a tradition that we have come to take for granted, and even when it’s not a great season — let’s face it,...
