By Gregory Crofton Rose Styron has a natural elegance about her. While she describes herself as maybe a little “pollyannaish,” others just call it being “In the Company of Rose.” That’s the name of a new documentary on her life…
Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street
Little Rock Arkansas’s West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and stands as a living witness of the street’s former glory days. Throughout…
DOC NYC: ‘LAST FLIGHT HOME’ Brings the Right to Die Issue into Your Living Room
By Gregory Crofton Eli Timoner was a successful man in charge of his life. He also cared about the people around him and didn’t dodge difficult fights, even if they were political in nature. But then something bad and unexpected…
Kurt Vonnegut: The Shape of Stories
Acclaimed writer Kurt Vonnegut uses graphing to illustrate how many stories there are yet to tell. Humanity tends to tell the same ones over and over again.
DOC NYC: This Vermont College was the Place to Be for Young American Writers in the 1980s
THE END OF THE WORLD By Gregory Crofton Former Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer’s (Studio 54, Where’s My Roy Cohn?) new doc “The End of the World” examines what made Bennington College a very liberal and an especially good place…
LOAN WOLVES: One Man Gets to the Bottom of the $2 Trillion Student Loan Crisis
By Gregory Crofton Why would “Loan Wolves” director Blake Zeff dare take on the story of our more than 20-year nearly $2 trillion dollar student loan crisis? Zeff, a former politics editor for Salon, probably took it on because he…