Category Archives: Uncategorized

From Harlem to Pahokee: Montclair Film Festival 2019 Documentaries

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Ken Dowell

Reviews of The Apollo, Pahokee and Mike Wallace is Here Continue reading →

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Liberty State Park: It’s Good to Have Friends

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Ken Dowell

Saving the “people’s park” from commercial development Continue reading →

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(Nearly) Live at SXSW: The system is broken. Why?

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Ken Dowell

Special interests? A dysfunctional two-party system? Voter suppression? Continue reading →

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They Used to Show Double Features

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Ken Dowell

The state of the movie theater in America. Continue reading →

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Car Trouble and Other Family Problems

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Ken Dowell

Robert Rorke’s novel set in a working class Irish neighborhood in Brooklyn in the 1960’s Continue reading →

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Thinkers, Makers, Dreamers — The MIT Museum

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Ken Dowell

Gestural engineering, imagined communities, neuroscience at MIT Continue reading →

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The Five Best Books I Read in 2018

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Ken Dowell

Some history, some contemporary life in America and the view from outer space. Continue reading →

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Let’s Pretend It’s 1965 and We’re in the East Village

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Ken Dowell

The Velvet Underground Experience Continue reading →

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Backyard Bird Feeder Bedlam

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Ken Dowell

A blue jay and a squirrel crash the sparrow foodfest. Continue reading →

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Homies with Grammys

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Ken Dowell

From the Grammy Museum Experience in Newark. Continue reading →

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