Waiting for Godot: The Elusive Promise of Reopening

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jul 16, 2020 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

The temporary closing of the Naro Cinema on March 20th of this year marked the beginning of a long period of anticipation for the extended Naro family. We originally planned for a July 4th weekend reopening with showings of the Spielberg classic ‘Jaws’ as a fun and...

John Lewis: A Profile In Courage

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jun 10, 2020 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

It is a good time to reflect on the civil rights era of the sixties and re-learn the effective strategies used by protest organizers and leaders. America has long memorialized the life and work of Martin Luther King. And yet there were other leaders who marched with...

Surviving the Storms Together

by Al Markowitz | Jun 8, 2020 | Al Markowitz, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

Guest Contributor Al Markowitz is a freelance writer, poet, publisher, activist and philosopher. His articles frequently appear in Veer Magazine. He also publishes the Blue Collar Review, Journal of Progressive working Class Literature. More of Al’s writings can...

Bad Habits: Keeping Up With Our Joneses

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | May 6, 2020 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

I like to do my writing in the mornings when I feel most clear-headed. I sit with my laptop accompanied by my cats and a hot cup of black coffee. My daily java ‘jones’ requires freshly ground French dark roast beans placed in our manual pour-over Chemex drip-through...

Saving Life On Earth

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Feb 13, 2020 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

Towering over me was a massive elongated head whose six-foot-long neck stretched down to meet us. This giant creature was so strange and intimidating when experienced up close that it might as well have been an alien being. And yet there was a knowing intelligence...

The Best Films of the Past Year (Based On True Stories)

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jan 15, 2020 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

In our modern era, the novelty of real-life events has become stranger than any conceived fiction. The films I’ve seen in the past year that have left their most indelible mark are reality-based stories exploring personal moral choices necessitated by the...