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With apologies to Bob Marley and the Wailers, but I couldn’t resist. A Fierce Green Fire is an important enough chronicle of our indispensable environmental movement’s last century to merit a nod to the revolutionary spirit of the Wailers’ immortal Catch a Fire. Because it has taken green revolutionaries to awake us to both the [...]

This year, the Oscars weren’t considered an utter failure until the predictable chauvinism of host Seth MacFarlane played out, with the Obama administration’s public endorsement of Argo‘s propaganda serving as a worrisome chaser. But I called bullshit on it from the beginning, because climate change was a disturbing no-show, despite the fact that its exponential [...]

It’s been a couple weeks since Portlandia has peeked out from IFC. Its third season began with the righteous holiday episode “Winter in Portlandia,” whose reliably surreal comedy nevertheless found a nation gripped with real-time tragedy — including a shooting rampage in Portland itself. After that, and then Newtown, some of us needed a holiday [...]