By far its most impressive and comprehensive lineup of films in its seven-year history, the Damn! These Heels: LGBT Film Festival runs the gamut from a film about comedian Joan Rivers to fresh screenings of Reed Cowan’s ’8: The Mormon Proposition’ to a groundbreaking 1977 documentary and to stories about Allen Ginsberg, gay Orthodox Jews, [...]

The medieval morality play remains a fruitful point of contact for many contemporary forms of entertainment – film, television, stage, and even video games. Everyman, for example, has strong echoes in films such as The Truman Show and Meet Joe Black as well as the works of Philip Roth, George Bernard Shaw and T.S. Eliot [...]

Editor’s Note: This post is the joint effort of Les Roka and Mark Alvarez. There are times for silence. In our capacity to reflect, meditate and pray, silence gives us the strength to realize our personal call to human dignity, compassion and respect. There are times when silence is inexcusable. These occasions require mature, reasoned [...]