The New Masculinity and the Changing Face of Action Flicks
What is in today's culture that makes a man? How does our culture understand masculinity? How is it portrayed in the increase of Comic Book hero and Action films? Is it accurate? Overzealous? Absurd? All the above? Host Jennie Spohr, Dr. Jeff Keuss, Jeffrey Overstreet, and Dr. Christine Chaney dig into the action films that shape our understanding of Masculinity. Podcast: Play [...]
Mandatory Time Off: Work Less, Enjoy Life More. Podcast: Live At Hales
Are you working more and enjoying life less? In the 90's Juliet Schor wrote a book titled "The Overworked American" arguing among other things that the typical American worker puts in nine weeks more on the job than his or her European counterpart. A recent report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research argues [...]
Live at Hale's: A Look Into “Downton Abbey"
Why are so many Americans, if not the rest of the world, so captivated about the ongoing ups and downs of a home of English Nobility adjusting to the Modern World? Is it the dissolving of class barriers? Or the humanity we find in every character from the Lord of the estate to the begging, [...]
Live at Hales – Curating Culture: 2013's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
This year the Rock n Roll all of Fame inductees are: Rush, Heart, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Lou Adler, Quincy Jones, and Albert King. These artists have had their hand on everything from Pixar films, the Rocky Horror Picture show; the sound behind the sound of your favorite songs, top charted pop sons to fight-the-system hip-hop and blues riffs. With host Jennie Spohr, Dr. [...]
“The Artist's Life." Live At Hales: What is it like to make your living with your art?
What is it like to make your living with your art? The fame? The fortune? The Limos? Each of us has a unique creativity but only a few pursue their artistic impulses… and only a few of those are able to make their living at it. The rest wonder—chip away at their novel, poem, songwriting, [...]
The Oscars: The Theologies of the 2013 Best Pictures Nominations. Live from Hales Ales
Our annual film blitz on the Oscar's picks for Best Film and what they say about the world we live in today. A lively conversation about: Amour, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Argo, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. With host Jennie Spohr and panelists Dr. Christine Chaney, Jeffrey Overstreet and Dr. Jeff Keuss. Podcast: Play [...]
The New Atheists: Dawkins. Harris. Dennett – Live At Hales, pt. 2 of 3
In the Part 2 of 3, Dr. John West of the Discovery Institute joins Adrian Wyard of the Counterbalance Foundation as we continue to explore Gary Wolfe's fascinating article on the new atheists in Wired Magazine. Here is an excerpt from his introduction: “This the challenge posed by the New Atheists. We are called upon, [...]
The New Atheists: Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett. Live At Hales, pt. 1 of 3
Adrian Wyard of the Counterbalance Foundation helps us explore Gary Wolfe's fascinating article on the new atheists in Wired Magazine. Here is an excerpt from his introduction. "This the challenge posed by the New Atheists. We are called upon, we lax agnostics, we noncommittal nonbelievers, we vague deists who would be embarrassed to defend antique [...]
Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens and Fleet Foxes: The Theology of Music and the New Spirituals
Dick Staub along with guests Jeff Keuss and Nigel Goodwin, take a look at the how three very distinct artistic musical entities approach the questions beyond your standard love song. The discussion includes a look the idea of “new spirituals" through the music of Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens and Fleet Foxes. Podcast: Play in new [...]
Live @Hale's – 50 Shades of Frenzy: Sex, the Bible and What the Fuss is About
There is a reason well over 40 million people have purchased the erotic fan-fiction Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker,and Fifty Shades Freed. The question is why? Why would a book about a woman who toys with being dominated, abused and humiliated by a man be at all entertaining to so many [...]