Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”
The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake,…
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Another Slender Man Attack?
This weekend, a second attack by a knife-wielding teenage girl was attributed to the online Slender Man mythos. While the attack could…
Read MoreMad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo
So we’ve always known Mad Men is not your typical view of the 1960s, but…
Read More‘Slender Man’ Murder Attempt Wasn’t Media or Madness
This Internet is abuzz with speculation about a bizarre attempted murder in which two 12-year-old…
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My Kind of Atheist
Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty…
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Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense
Recently at the Cannes Film Festival, actress Salma Hayek premiered parts of her film adaptation…
Read MoreThe Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films
Those who run the recently-opened 9/11 Memorial Museum refuse to consider changes to a controversial film that some say could incite hatred. They might take a page from the Holocaust Museum’s controversy nearly two decades ago.
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The Sacred Objects of 9/11
Mark Schaming is the director of the New York State Historical Museum in Albany. Soon…
Read MoreBlack Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story
When the Satanic Temple offered to perform a historical re-enactment of a black mass through the Harvard…
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The Older You Are, The More Likely You’ll Marry Outside Your Religion
People assume that those in interfaith marriages never cared about religion to begin with. Not true, says the survey…
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