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Anne Feeney, Inspirational Folk Singer and Activist, Dies at 69 of COVID-19 Mike Barnes Anne Feeney OBIT Anne Feeney, a folk singer who collaborated with Pete Seeger, John Prine and Peter, Paul and Mary and an impassioned activist who fought for workers’ and women’s rights, died Wednesday in Pittsburgh of COVID-19 complications. She was 69. “It is with a very heavy heart that we must announce the passing of our courageous, brilliant, beautiful mother,” her daughter, Amy Sue Berlin, wrote on Facebook. “We were very lucky that she fought hard enough to open up her eye...

by David Rovics / February 5th, 2021 On February 3rd, 2021, Anne Feeney died in the hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her children at her side.  She was 69 years old.  She was a cancer survivor in poor physical health when she fell and broke her back a month ago, and in the hospital she contracted Covid-19, then pneumonia.Although Anne died too young, she lived a long life.  She lived many lives during those 69 years, really, and she cheated death at least a couple times during her last decade on Earth. As I set out to write some words about my old and very dear friend, colleague,...

Tango Shalom: Lainie Kazan and Renée Taylor co-star in a picture playing this year's San Diego Jewish Film Festival that has "audience favorite" written all over it. Another week, another film festival — this time, the 31st Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, which runs February 11-21. For a complete lineup of features and virtual discussion groups, visit www.lfjcc.org/cjc/sdijff.aspx. Here are two must-sees and one… well, I suffered, why shouldn’t you? Tango Shalom (2021) It’s not often one thinks of rabbis and their wives as amorous entities, but that’s the first...

By Kate Myers My grandmother died from the Spanish Flu in 1920. She was 28 years old and had a young child. 100 years later, I am in danger of dying from another deadly virus. I am 68 years old and have no family

Filmmakers Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook, & Carmine Appice Up Next on TOM NEEDHAM'S SOUNDS OF FILM Worldwide listeners can tune into the Sounds of Film's internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.by BWW News Desk Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, the writers and directors of MY LITTLE SISTER, author Yaron Brook, and Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appice are Tom Needham's special guests on THE SOUNDS OF FILM. MY LITTLE SISTER, this year's Official Oscar Entry from Switzerland, is about a once successful playwright who sacrifices her lif...