Los Angeles, California – Setting the precedent for the rest of the nation and the world, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 657 – authored…
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Leave a CommentFilm Review: Masquerades
Published October 13, 2010 by Mischa Geracoulis
Clustering around the fictitious wedding between young, sweet, and narcoleptic Rym (Sarah Reguieg) and “a certain William Vancooten,” Masquerades lampoons Berber village life in mountainous…
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Leave a CommentLooking back at the 13th Annual Arpa International Film Festival
Published September 30, 2010 by Mischa Geracoulis
The annual Arpa International Film and Music Festival returned to Los Angeles in its 13th year with 50 films from 30 different countries. The festival’s…
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Leave a CommentFilm Review: Wah Do Dem
Published July 20, 2010 by Mischa Geracoulis
We first meet Max (Sean Bones), the twentysomething, almost hip, Generation Y guy, playing street soccer in his Brooklyn neighborhood— the significance of which is…
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Leave a CommentBook review: Jailhouse Lawyers
Published July 8, 2010 by Mischa Geracoulis
Book by Mumia Abu-Jamal; 2009, City Light Publishers, San Francisco, 280 pp. To borrow from an old African-American proverb, Mumia Abu-Jamal “speaks truth to power”…
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Leave a CommentInterview with Paul Watson Guardian Angel of the High Seas
Published December 1, 2008 by Mischa Geracoulis
Captain Paul Watson is a man on the mission of a lifetime: to protect our ecosystems and endangered species, and to stop the annihilation of…
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Leave a CommentAgeless Wisdom for a Changing World, or… How to Change the World the Toltec Way An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz
Published October 1, 2008 by Mischa Geracoulis
The Toltec Nation emerged some thousands of years ago throughout southern Mexico. A nation of scientists and artists, they lived in accordance with sacred, esoteric…
Leave a CommentMeeting with A Remarkable Man: Interview with Khen Rinpoche
Published August 1, 2008 by Mischa Geracoulis
Born in India in 1936, the monastic life of Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan began at the tender age of 7. At age 16,…
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