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The Conne rs begins its new season with the extended family jobless and unable to pay the rent, and Superstore recounts the effects of the coronavirus on its essential workers caught between a company more concerned with profits than workers’ safety and customers hoarding supplies that are in too short supply. This is the second season for Mystery Road (BBC in the UK and Acorn in the U.S.), a series based on an Aboriginal cop, Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), a character already established in two previous films. The mystery road that Jay travels is the wide-open country of Australia’s great ...

A WGDR-FM DJ in the mid-1970s Some big news out of Goddard College: Its radio station, WGDR-FM, is in the process of becoming an independent entity after nearly 50 years of operation. While it's possible that the physical station itself, including tens of thousands of dollars' worth of broadcasting equipment, a performance area and other facilities, will remain on the Plainfield college's campus, operations and licensure are currently being transferred to an independent group of citizen media volunteers. Going forward, the station will be known as ...

Grace’s Manhattan in ‘The Undoing’ “The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone. “Yes,” replied Hemingway brusquely, “they have more money.” It is difficult not to recall this exchange when watching HBO and Sky Atlantic’s David E. Kelly mini-series The Undoing, which in this year of an ever more rapid COVID-induced transfer of wealth from the lowest to the highest income brackets, thinks it is giving us, in the guise of a murder mystery, a female emancipation series when in fact it is simply glorifying and asking us to adore the wealthy. The se...

Morning News on Means TV The U.S. election has finally been secured with even Donald Trump almost tacitly acknowledging that he lost. In the aftermath, the mainstream media has now swung behind Joe Biden’s return to normalcy. The dominant media opposed Trump, not on grounds that he was a corporate bloodletter who bombed Syria, murdered Iran’s leading general, and laid waste to U.S. natural resources, all actions either applauded or tacitly condoned, but that he was an unfit and buffoonish manager of the empire. It is only in the world of alternative media that both Trump’s actual crime...