Page 57 - Upton Sinclair News Today

Because in cinema, black gold consistently signals shady business and excellent drama  

On Thursday, June 23, 1898, The Spokesman-Review recounted a baseball game between Seattle and Spokane teams. The reporter noted that a Seattle fan tried to...

From tales of ‘hissing’ oilmen to ‘crying’ trees, novels about petroleum and its devastating effect on communities and the environment are powerful fiction for our times – with the potential for prophecy

Pure petrofiction: why writers will keep drilling for stories about oil

The Eugene Debs Museum filled me with hope for a world without exploitation.

"With the hot dogs, I always thought about 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair," says Ivy Haldeman, who spoke to us about capitalism and cosmetics.

KCQ serves up a history of early KC hamburger joints before your Fourth of July cookout.

Lookingglass Theatre, long in residence at the Water Tower Water Works on Michigan Avenue, said Friday that it planned to reduce its full-time staff from 24 to 10 employees and to pause programming until late spring of 2024. The ensemble-driven theater, founded by a close-knit group of Northwestern University classmates and friends in 1988, famously has produced original work for the last 35 ...

In the latest example of a nationwide funding crisis for theaters, Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre announced layoffs and program pause.

People may be wealthier and breathe cleaner air now, but today the climate crisis imperils humanity with little time left to act.