Old Time Folks Lee Bains and The Glory Fires (Don Giovanni Records, 2022) The day this fourth album from our greatest left-wing Southern punk-rock band...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
Author Wendell Berry famously lives in Henry County, Kentucky, which went for presidential nominee Donald Trump by a 46 percent margin in 2020. Still, Berry...
In the very first episode of the Hulu/FX dramedy series Reservation Dogs, four teenaged Native Americans gather to mark the first anniversary of their friend’s...
Holy Ghost Power The Hillbilly Thomists (CD Baby, 2022) As close readers of Catholic media may already know, The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of Dominican...
Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking...
By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
Did you know that if you’re a poor and unemployed single mother, before you can get any financial assistance from the government you must have a job? On top of...
Living for the Other Side The Hillbilly Thomists (Dominican Records, 2021) First off, we have to deal with the band’s name. It comes from Flannery O’Connor...
In September 2019, when Peter Nicks started shooting a documentary about the senior class at Oakland High School, he’d already made two award-winning films...
