Speak Out! recent blogs
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Last Thoughts.... Why is Sundance So Important!?
By Ilene Marder 02/22/11
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By Ilene Marder 02/01/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/29/11
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THE BRONX IS OUT IN FORCE AT SUNDANCE!
By Ilene Marder 01/26/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/25/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/24/11
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The Most Important Film at Sundance?
By Ilene Marder 01/23/11
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Up too EARLY but gotta get tickets
By Ilene Marder 01/22/11
Arts & Culture
Portfolio: Cannon HerseyIf the world is to be saved, it’s people like Cannon Hersey who will spearhead the effort. | 
Parting Shot: April Warren“Ten Words,” a dual exhibition featuring April Warren and Eileen Brand, will be shown at the Main Street Bistro in New Paltz through June 6. |
Big Screen BerkshiresThe second annual Berkshire International Film Festival will screen 50 movies at a number of venues in Great Barrington May 17 through May 20. | 
The Celts Are ComingMore than one-third of Americans descend from Celtic roots, tracing their ancestry back to one of the eight Celtic nations: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias, or Galicia. | 
Screen SceneThe premier screening of Racing Daylight, a slice of magic realism filmed in Ulster County and starring David Strathairn, anchors a summer film series by The Woodstock Film Festival. | 
Film: Breaking UpBreaking Up is a short film about unrequited love and bad cell phone reception, shot on location in Kingston, by Jeff Burns and the IAC film collective. |
Food & Drink
You've Got Kale!Supposing you want to try making raw food. You’ll need a blender. Devotees swear by the Vita-Mix. It’s the Harley-Davidson of blenders—goes forward, reverse, and vroom, vroom, vroom. You can crush ice, coffee beans, and probably beer cans with it. |
Books
Graphic Novel GalaxyGraphic novels have increasingly opened to women as well, with notable nonfiction titles including Marjane Satrapi’s Iranian-girlhood portrait Persepolis and Alison Bechdel’s familial tragicomedy Fun Home. | 
Book Review: The Second Coming of Mavala ShikongoJust reissued in paperback, this tale of American volunteer Larry Kaplanski’s time spent in a godforsaken place where “even the baboons feel sorry for us,” is told in a picaresque manner well suited to the 21st-century attention span. |
Book Review: A Worldly CountryIf it’s loveliness you want, here, take some, | 
Book Review: BloodthirstyFormer sitcom and ad writer Marshall Karp blasted holes through Hollywood hypocrisy in his 2006 debut, The Rabbit Factory. Now the Woodstock mystery maven brings his comical cops back for another round in Bloodthirsty. | 
Short Takes for MayThese five new releases offer sustenance to heart, mind, and body, including John Cuneo’s romp through the lowest of chakras. |
