What’s Up, Doc? The Best Documentaries of the Year

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Dec 17, 2019 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

When we first initiated the Naro series ‘New Non-Fiction Film’ in the early 2000s, documentaries were still considered to be the red headed stepchild of arthouse programming. The bulk of the screen content being foreign films, indie American films, and film classics....

Looking Back at 2019 and Hopes for Next Year

by Al Markowitz | Dec 16, 2019 | Al Markowitz, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

As I write this, the holiday season with all its emphasis on frenzied gift buying is again upon us, along with the first trickle of election season ads by billionaires seeking to buy the election, as if everything, including the presidency, were a Black Friday...

Exorcising the Ghost of Roy Cohn

by Al Markowitz | Nov 16, 2019 | Al Markowitz, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

Guest Contributor Al Markowitz is a freelance writer, poet, publisher, activist and philosopher. This article is published in the latest Veer Magazine. He also publishes the Blue Collar Review, Journal of Progressive working Class Literature. More of Al’s...

The Third Kingdom: Notes From the Underground

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Nov 14, 2019 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

After a cool August morning searching vainly for chanterelle mushrooms within an aspen forest on the high slopes of the San Juan Mountains surrounding Telluride – I had reluctantly given up.  Turning back towards town empty handed, I came upon a mossy glade in the...

Dark Matter: Einstein’s Unsolved Enigma

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Oct 14, 2019 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

It seems that congratulations are in order! At this point in the universe’s 13.76 billion year trajectory, earthlings have reached a comprehensive understanding of all the laws of physics that make up our everyday reality. That’s quite a claim, isn’t it? But the last...

Burning Down The House

by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Sep 17, 2019 | Home-Page, Journal, Tench's Topics, Veer Articles

I looked down upon a sea of green that spread out below me in every direction as far as my eyes could see. I had flown out of Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, destined for Rio Branco in the western part of Brazil adjacent to the border with Bolivia. But...