HomeArchive for February, 2010
The Coffee Party
Recently, LiberalArtsDude tipped us off to a fast-growing popular movement, The Coffee Party, which appears to be a liberal response to the Tea Party Movement. (…)
What’s the Matter with Democrats?
Thomas Frank has a notion of what’s wrong with the Democratic Party – why it repeatedly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory:
The answer to the riddle is as plain as the caviar on a lobbyist’s spoon. (…)
A genuine documentary film on the Tea Party movement?
Vadim Rizov laments on the IFC Blog that we probably shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for a “real” (i.e. (…)
Time for a sequel?
LiberalArtsDude has posted a thoughtful review of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” in which he gives the movie a solid 4/5 star recommendation but is left wanting more:
Fast forward to 2010 where conservative activism is explicitly angrier, economically populist and increasingly organized as in the rise of the Tea Party movement. (…)
Mother Jones: “A timely exploration”
Josh Harkinson of the venerable lefty outlet Mother Jones weighs in on “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
In his 2004 book, What’s the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank probed the psyches of Midwestern “values voters” to explain why blue-collar Americans abandoned economic self-interest to vote for George W. (…)
Washington, D.C. starting March 19, 2010
Just as populism experiences a revival in our nation’s capital, powered by parties of Tea and Coffee, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?“ will open a one-week engagement at Landmark’s E Street Cinema, one of Washington, D.C.’s finest movie theaters, on Friday, March 19. (…)
Rochester, NY – March 13, 2010 – one night only!
The nascent Coffee Party movement has declared Saturday, March 13 to be “National Coffee Party Day,” and what better way to celebrate populist revolt than to see a screening of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” The movie will play for one night as part of the film program at the Dryden Theater at the legendary George Eastman House (which is definitely worth a visit on its own) in Rochester, NY. (…)
Kansas City screenings begin Friday, March 12, 2010
UPDATE: due to overwhelming demand, the Kansas City run has been extended through Thursday, March 25! (…)