The Indypendent
Culture
Review: ‘Brick Body Kids Still Daydream’
By Open Mike Eagle
Mello Music
Dystopian themes abound in popular culture. In a world wracked by climate change, war, mass migration and a growing gulf between the super-rich and everyone else, imagining the worst has become its own industry. But what might it feel like to live and work in a future society that has begun to heal a damaged planet even as people continue to be their messy, imperfect selves?
Football, Power and the American Way
They call it “America’s game.” The National Football League is the most popular sport in the country by most…
Exploring New Horizons in Sci Fi & Fantasy
Immigrant, trans and queer youth launch thought-provoking new films.
Skiffle: The Most Influential Music You’ve Never Heard of
What do The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who and The Rolling Stones have in common? Members of…
Exposing America’s Legacy of Racial Terror
‘The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America’
Brooklyn Museum
Thru Oct. 8
We Built It, We Can Tear It Down
Review: “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”
By James Forman Jr.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
Salvaging New York’s Lost Soul
Review: “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”
By Jeremiah Moss
Dey Street Books, 2017
Reverend Billy answers questions about how to handle Nazi’s and leaving the United States in this month’s column