Upton Sinclair

[Year In Film] Looking Back On a Decade Dominated by Movie Franchises, Our Critics Pick Nine Faves

Los Duggans

Juke Joint

"Food Inc." Opens At Edwards University: A Review of the Film

Food Inc. puts forth a lot of information, some of which I already knew:  - 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 ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 5/22 - 5/24

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 du ... More >>

Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: Dueling Food Documentaries

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 ... More >>

Big Mac

Bill McKibbon

NBFF: That's a wrap for 2008

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 t ... More >>

California Burning

An epic gusher, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood strikes oilÑand then some

There's the Beef

Richard Linklaters ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

Commie Girl

Burning Down the House: Al Gore lights our fire

Gunkist Oranges

Wonder why Orange County trembles whenever its Mexicans protest? Welcome to the Citrus War of 1936, the most important event in Orange County history youve never heard of

Loose Change

Nickel and Dimed is better read than staged

Letters

Nickel and Dimed is better read than staged

Hatching a revolution

How Chapman U. Produced a Socialist Student Leader

A Penile Postscript

Hanging out with Jim Washburn

A Short History of Angry HiStory

Hanging out with Jim Washburn

Hail, Caesar Salad

Budget's stuck, so Wilson scrambles for egg bill