Arts and Culture | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T08:01:57+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Claire Wasserman on Europe’s Islamic Immigrants http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/claire_wasserman_on_europes_islamic_immigrants_20091119/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/claire_wasserman_on_europes_islamic_immigrants_20091119/ book, christopher_caldwell, claire wasserman, culture, europe, history, islam, reflections on the revolution in europe, review, Book Review book cover

Christopher Caldwell explores in his recent book what he terms Islam’s “adversary culture” now challenging Europe’s own sense of historical identity.

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]]> 2009-11-20T08:01:57+00:00 Oprah Sets Her Show’s Expiration Date http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/oprah_sets_her_shows_expiration_date_20091119/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/oprah_sets_her_shows_expiration_date_20091119/ cable, cbs, discovery, ellen degeneres, network, oprah winfrey, own, talk show, television, In the News Oprah

So long, “Oprah”—in 2011, that is. Oprah Winfrey’s eponymous show went national in 1986, and, on Thursday, the talk show host and international media mogul gave notice when she’ll call it a wrap: Sept. 9, 2011, just a day over 25 years since her daytime reign began.

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]]> 2009-11-20T00:03:45+00:00 Behold the Food of the Future http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/behold_the_food_of_the_future_20091118/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/behold_the_food_of_the_future_20091118/ food industry, frankenfood, health, omega-3, pharmaceutical, superfood, wageningen, weight loss, In the News pizza and beer

Want some Frankenfood with your superfood? How about those functional foods? As you might imagine, a preview of what we may be eating—or at least what we may be told is good for us—in the future is best taken with a grain of salt.

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]]> 2009-11-19T02:45:40+00:00 Adam Lambert Facing ‘How Gay Is Too Gay?’ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/adam_lambert_how_gay_is_too_gay_20091117/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/adam_lambert_how_gay_is_too_gay_20091117/ adam lambert, american idol, gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, queer, In the News Lambert

What are the responsibilities of an openly gay celebrity to the LGBTQ community? There are no easy answers, but “American Idol” runner-up and newly minted gay proto-icon Adam Lambert has to grapple with them by virtue of his visibility, and opinions vary widely about how to be out and proud as a public figure.

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]]> 2009-11-17T23:56:48+00:00 Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez’s Dream http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ book, cesar chavez, marc cooper, miriam pawel, review, the union of their dreams, ufw, united farm workers, Book Review bookcover

In her important new book, Miriam Pawel chronicles how a movement to unionize farmworkers failed to realize its charismatic founder’s vision as his relatives turned a union into a family business.

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]]> 2009-11-13T08:01:46+00:00 Art Market Gets a Boost from Sotheby’s, Warhol http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_art_market_gets_a_boost_from_sothebys_warhol/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_art_market_gets_a_boost_from_sothebys_warhol/ andy warhol, art, auction, auction house, factory, pablo picasso, recession, sotheby's, In the News Warhol painting

Sotheby’s enjoyed a windfall Wednesday when the auction house’s New York HQ nearly doubled its estimated high of $67.9 million for its contemporary art bid-fest, in which Andy Warhol’s works figured prominently among the biggest-selling successes of the evening.

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]]> 2009-11-13T05:43:43+00:00 Freedom’s Fight http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091111_freedoms_fight/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091111_freedoms_fight/ african american, black soldier, fiction, freedom's fight, gary phillips, novel, veteran's day, world war ii, Book Excerpt Freedom's Fight Gary Phillips

Truthdig is pleased to present an excerpt from Gary Phillips’ novel “Freedom’s Fight,” which interweaves real historical figures and situations in a fictive narrative about World War II, focusing not just on the black soldier’s struggle, but also on the debates various civil rights groups had about the war stateside.

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]]> 2009-11-11T23:56:25+00:00 Emma Thompson, Petition Tourist? http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091110_emma_thompson_petition_tourist/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091110_emma_thompson_petition_tourist/ actor, bernard henri levy, emma thompson, exeter, petition, roman polanski, switzerland, tourist, In the News Thompson

British actor Emma Thompson has drawn the ire of Roman Polanski’s supporters by removing her name from a pro-Polanski petition she’d signed following the Polish filmmaker’s September arrest in Switzerland. On Tuesday writer-filmmaker Yann Moix archly accused Thompson of “petition tourism.”

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]]> 2009-11-11T02:14:14+00:00 Marion Barry Does Reality TV http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091109_marion_barry_does_reality_tv/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091109_marion_barry_does_reality_tv/ crack cocaine, gay marriage, marion barry, mayor for life, pilot, reality television, washington d.c., In the News Marion Barry

So Marion Barry ultimately wasn’t able to be Washington, D.C.‘s “mayor for life,” but he may get his own reality TV show. According to the Web site DCist, Barry, who’s now a city councilman, is currently filming a pilot for the show, although his chief of staff couldn’t say which network or production company was behind the project.

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]]> 2009-11-09T21:57:39+00:00 Steve Fraser on the Crisis of Capitalism http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091105_steve_fraser_on_the_crisis_of_capitalism/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091105_steve_fraser_on_the_crisis_of_capitalism/ book, capitalism, economy, great depression, great recession, keynesian, review, steve fraser, Essay

Does the prospect of deepening economic meltdown and political disarray raise the specter of a social upheaval and, perhaps, the collapse of capitalism, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Great Depression?

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