The Black gay cinema of Marlon Riggs is coming out on streaming By Joe Nolan Pioneering Black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an undergrad at Harvard when he had two realizations: He was gay, and he wanted

*In addition to my own creative projects I also write a lot about art and film. This weekend marks the 5th anniversary of my favorite Nashville film festival: Defy Film Festival is one of the few cinema

*In addition to my own creative projects I also write a lot about art and film. This weekend marks the 5th anniversary of my favorite Nashville film festival: Defy Film Festival is one of the few cinema

This is a review of a video art exhibition in Nashville, TN. All the videos are also online at the link in my review so I also wanted to share this review with our global Hive art community. The virtual

I have a new single releasing on the Autumn Equinox, Tuesday, September 22. "Lone Wolves Together" is a song about banding together with the families we choose. It's about love and need, and

Ghosts Are Us: Charlie Kaufman’s new film is difficult and unique, but is it any good? Charlie Kaufman’s having a busy summer: his debut novel, Antkind was released in July and his latest directorial effort

Hey y'all, Happy Open Mic. I didn't have an original song to match this week's "Stop and Smell the Roses" theme. That said, I'd written the chorus for a new song a few days ago and thought it

Is The Clash my favorite band of all time? Maybe. There's too much to recount here, but over the course of the band's career they took the best of the punk spirit/ethos and built on those values to become

Is The Clash my favorite band of all time? Maybe. There's too much to recount here, but over the course of the band's career they took the best of the punk spirit/ethos and built on those values to become

Hey everybody, I'm an old school Steemian who only recently caught up with the Great Hive Exodus. Hive has so much more integrity and the platform is much less toxic as a result. Steemit was always a good

This is the first Open Mic I've done since the Great Steemit Exodus. Very excited to introduce myself to this new community, although I've already seen some familiar faces here. This week's "Four

The global pandemic sent the whole world to their living room couches where most of us have spent some of our downtime watching films and catching up on streaming series. Movie watching – more than any

The global pandemic sent the whole world to their living room couches where most of us have spent some of our downtime watching films and catching up on streaming series. Movie watching – more than any

Y'all! I hope you had a great weekend. Here's a quick post to share this new triptych that I finished this morning: weird abstractions that look sort of like underwater nightmare creatures. I have no idea

In my last update I talked about an exhibition that I'm currently in - it opened on Saturday and the video art crawl that stood in for an IRL opening reception was pretty fun by quarantine standards. See

In my last update I talked about an exhibition that I'm currently in - it opened on Saturday and the video art crawl that stood in for an IRL opening reception was pretty fun by quarantine standards. See

A new Gordon Lightfoot documentary is less glitter and more gold By Joe Nolan Gordon Lightfoot was the second concert I ever went to as a high school kid in the 1980s. Lightfoot wasn’t a big star for most

A new Gordon Lightfoot documentary is less glitter and more gold By Joe Nolan Gordon Lightfoot was the second concert I ever went to as a high school kid in the 1980s. Lightfoot wasn’t a big star for most

I'm a Steemit.com refugee like most of you, and I just started posting here at Hive this week. I'm already feeling the love and the rush of exploring this new platform reminds me of what I liked best about

Hey everybody! I have some art news to share with all of you before the month of July comes to an end. I was grateful to participate in the My View From Home mail art exhibition which featured works from