by Linda McInerney | Oct 1, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Lindel Hart and Linda McInerney have been collaborating for two years on an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the first year, they researched, imagined, and Lindel wrote. They spent endless hours on Linda’s couch dreaming out how the show might...
by Harley Erdman | Oct 9, 2014 | The Public Humanist
On October 17 and 18, 2014, the Northampton Academy of Music Theater will debut the new play, Nobody’s Girl, a screwball-style comedy based on a true story from the early 1940s. The events involve Mildred Walker, a cashier at the Academy (then a movie theater),...
by Michele Meek | Oct 22, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Technically, the Internet reaches a worldwide audience, but for us at NewEnglandFilm.com, we try to think a bit more locally. The initial idea for the Online New England Film Festival came from our goal to promote local filmmaking to our local community....
by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Oct 29, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Two days ago I had the honor of moderating the second of this fall’s four Created Equal: Conversations on Negotiating the American Social Contract events. The series of public film and discussion forums is designed to showcase the theme of Mass Humanities’...
by James Heflin | Oct 15, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I wonder if the first person to find him- or herself uncharacteristically pale for a human had any inkling what that small and personal mutation would lead to in 10,000 years? Astonishing: All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in...