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As the dirt turns (a pair of agricultural hope operas)
I grew up surrounded by farms. Though my family lived in a neighborhood on the very outskirts of our northern Ohio city, my school bus drove out into the country to pick up some of my farm-raised classmates. And in the summer, I spent the county fair week not only taking
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PBS’s Independent Lens is broadcasting (and celebrating) “King Corn” this week
The breakout indie documentary "King Corn" is on TV tonight and for the rest of the week on PBS's Independent Lens series. (Find your station and the schedule here.)
“Good Morning America” — you’re being cornified!
Thanks to reader Henry for alerting us to the recent appearance of "King Corn" filmmakers Curt Ellis and
Severine and “The Greenhorns”: Sowing the seeds of revolution
Have you ever encountered an idealistic young person with such presence that you thought, Whoa — this one might actually succeed in changing the world!? That's the way I felt, anyway, on meeting Severine von Tscharner Fleming a few years ago, back when I was working for UC Berkeley and she was
Digest – Commentary: Hog ownership, corn growers on defensive
Face up to your meat: "Very soon, a farmer and his son will come to the farm to kill our two pigs," writes Verlyn Klinkenborg. "If that sentence bothers you, you should probably stop reading now — and you should probably also stop eating pork." (New
“King Corn” preview and discussion in Berkeley draws crowd
Michael Pollan with "King Corn" stars Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, and director Aaron Woolf, along with a corny hat that Pollan had in his backpack. As expected, Tuesday night's special event for "King Corn," featuring Michael Pollan and the
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Bay Area events: “King Corn” filmmakers to chat with Michael Pollan, audiences
Like the maize from which it takes its name, the documentary "King Corn" is conquering America. The film's message — that maybe, just maybe, the U.S. is growing too much subsidized cheap grain — obviously contains enough kernels of truth to
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“King Corn” is really about zombies
BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin has an entertaining interview for bbTV with the "King Corn" guys, shortly after their screening for Congress. Although they look like they're getting used to
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Good cob, bad cob: “King Corn” isn’t against the grain
We feed ourselves very cheaply now. You see those tremendous fields of corn out there, corn as far as the eye can see? That's the age of plenty. —Earl Butz, former secretary of agriculture, in "King Corn" A terrific new documentary called "King Corn" is opening this Friday
Digest – Blogs: “King Corn” dispatches, Bruce helps out People’s Grocery, estate tax loopholing
"King Corn" star blogging: Curt Ellis, one of the co-producers of the new documentary “King Corn” (see our review) is blogging about the movie and its string of openings across the country. (Culinate.com) The
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“A three-ring circus of fruits and vegetables”: Monterey Market in film
I spent part of a beautiful sunny afternoon last weekend watching a documentary about a grocery store. That's right, a documentary about a grocery store. Some of you might be thinking that I saw Robert Greenwald's "Walmart: The High Cost of Low
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Don’t stop playing with your food
The Vegetable Orchestra performs using only instruments made of vegetables — cucumberophones, pumpkin basses, leek violins. Check out this awesome video of their music. Who knew a carrot could sound just like the finest flute? We hope they ate, or
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Digest: USDA diluting organics, emptying bottled water
NEWS Organic, except when it's too hard: The USDA followed the tried-and-true technique of releasing controversial news on a Friday afternoon with an interim approval to the rule allowing 38 non-organic ingredients to be used in products with the "USDA organic" label. Manufacturers must prove (whatever
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Earth Day: Past time for Americans to scale down our appetites
In honor of Earth Day, here's a new video from Free Range Studios, the awesome Berkeley-based animation team that also brought us The Meatrix series.
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‘Bacon, the film” ~ this Sunday in Montreal
Montrealers should be aware that a documentary about large-scale hog producers that was produced in 2002 will be screened this coming Sunday afternoon: Bacon, the film Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 4pm Redpath Museum
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