I've been hesitant to write the final blog post in the festival because doing so would acknowledge that it's over. But all things must pass. And if you gotta go out, go out with a blowout: the closing night party concluded with a massive electricity blackout at the Lido and surrounding area. Since the party people had their own power supply, though, everybody kept on dancing in the (near) dark.
Earlier in the day, the news came in that the big festival winners were CAPTAIN ABU RAED, the first f
While the Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation, was hailed as a muckraking expose on the food industry in the same mold as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, I thought it failed as a film.
 Here now is Food Inc., made by Robert Kenner, produced by the people behind Inconvenient Truth, repackaged from the book's ideas, and presented in documentary form. From the trailer, it looks just as engaging and persuasive as the climate change doc.
Instead of Al Gore, it features two-heavy hitters on the
Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, Fri., May 22 thru Sun., May 31, 8 p.m.The new production titled, Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, will feature a large cast of performers. The story is set in
1920's San Pedro, the Port Town of Los Angeles amid the demonstrations
of union activists during the worker's movement.Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, CA; 310-433-8774Battlestar Abstractica, Daily 1 p.m. thru June 30Fantastical visions of what the future might possibly be li
Food Inc. puts forth a lot of information, some of which I already knew:Â
- Corn and its derivates inhabit just about everything we buy from the supermarket.
- Factory farming leads to crowded feed lots where cows stand in their own feces and to lightless henhouses where chickens bred to grow up fast and fat squat in their own squallor.
But most of the information was new to me (feeding cows corn makes them more vulnerable to spreading E. Coli). And all of it was even more terrifying than
