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Film Review: “Jimmy’s Hall” — A Vibrant Look at Irish Working Class Culture

July 30, 2015
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The entertaining and inspiring Jimmy’s Hall is more playful than some of director Ken Loach’s previous, more radical-leaning efforts.

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The Collective Stupidity: Reverse Curve for the Arts

March 15, 2009
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By Peter Walsh “There’s a gude time coming.” —Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817) Americans, always attuned to the prices and classes of commodity, assume that the arts fall into the expensive luxury category: an ornament to good times but destined to wilt, like a hot house orchid, under the cold wind of recession. History…

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