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DECODING THE DREAM: American ideal transforms

It’s a feeble crowd. Only three workers made it to this Thursday session. They are scattered on picnic tables under a tent in the parking lot of Home Depot on Epps Bridge Road. One is eating a Chick-fil-a sandwich a volunteer brought.  Another is drinking red Gatorade. They all look a little bored and apathetic. [...]

Novels always trump film adaptations

The 2005 biopic “Capote” recently arrived to my house via Netflix per my request. I’d seen it once before and I wanted my roommates to check it out. After hearing their mostly positive reviews, I started thinking about the increasingly common art of turning books into movies. I have always been particularly critical when it [...]