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By Gregory Crofton The oil boom in North Dakota produced jobs and apparently attracted a racist hate group. Paul Craig Cobb, a well-known white supremacist, decided that Leith, a town with population of about 20, would be an ideal place…
By Gregory Crofton Not often are you lucky enough to see John Prine at a film festival, but that happened at the sold-out “Live from New York!” at the Nashville Film Festival. Prine, a singer-songwriter known for hits like “Sam…
Martin Scorsese compares documentaries and narratives at the AFI Silver Theatre.
TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield discusses his film about South Central Los Angeles’ notorious serial killer of women, and his other films including AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. BYOD looks at clips and…
When Amish children turn sixteen, they are given the opportunity to embark on a coming-of-age ritual known as rumspringa (literally “running around”). During this period, they are allowed to indulge in smoking, drinking, drugs and other 21st-century pleasures. It ends…
By Gregory Crofton The Hip-Hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith bounded down onto the floor of the movie theater and told the projectionist to turn it up. The music playing over the end credits of the film got louder. Mic in…
