Mel Starker

Columbus movie listings: February 19–26 Let your freak flag fly!

Hey! Got some local movie listings for ya.

What's up, Bluesky? I finally extracted these thoughts from my brain. Check it out - includes links to where you can see everything including the honorable mentions.
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His family will surround him the way he surrounded his father as he declined - trying to figure out what they can get him to sign so they can corner the inheritance.

When Usha kicked him out of their bedroom after defending young Republicans who called Indian women dirty & smelly, Vance found a warm place to sleep up the president’s ass.

Nina West battles a zombie apocalypse in ‘Queens of the Dead’ – Matter News The Columbus drag icon brings her new movie to Nightmares Film Festival on Sunday, Oct. 19

I had a great lil chat with @ninawest.bsky.social for @matternews.bsky.social about QUEENS OF THE DEAD & monsters that lurk in power ahead of the @shudder.com film’s OH premiere Sunday. Check it out & support local journalism!

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“

Ahem, @therooster.bsky.social

I’m beyond excited to share that A Historic Cinematic Night at the Movies is coming to Columbus, featuring the world premiere of a new short doc about Jeffrey Epstein. Two shows Thurs night at 7:30 & 10, with live music, a sneak peek at the new WitchLab space & free popcorn!

Between this & SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, Pia Zadora really is an underappreciated scifi queen. 👑😂

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Dublin Jerome High School student barred from presenting trans-centered activism project – Matter News ‘These school administrators and teachers, I don’t think they’re transphobic. I think the system is transphobic.’

“We are just protecting you is the way they justified it,” said Embi, who will now host the teach-in portion of her project at the Dublin CML branch on Thursday, May 15. “But if they were really protecting me, they would let me talk about these issues as one of the few trans girls at my school.”

So good, so underrated.

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Congratulations to Basel, Hamdan, Rachel, and Yuval on winning the Oscar for Best Documentary!! We are so proud of you and the massive success of your film.

We hope a distributor will bring this important story about Palestinian resilience to ethnic cleansing to a larger audience.

As my husband just said, holy Tarantino!

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

I apologize that I don’t have time to add the alt text for this right now, but Hanif Abdurraqib with an important call out to everyone

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

BlueSkiers from Ohio here’s your information for Wednesdays protest 👇

Art, Activism, and Prison Abolition Take Center Stage at the McConnell Arts Center - Columbus Underground Now is not the time to turn away. Now is the time to look, to learn, to reflect, and to act. Visit McConnell Arts Center by March 20 for why.

There's some artists doing amaizing work in Ohio to help raise awareness about the United States criminal legal system and the people impacted by it. I wrote about their work and current exhibitions for @colsunderground.bsky.social Check it out. columbusunderground.com/art-activism...

Local Politics: To bring about national change, start by thinking locally – Matter News Practical advice on the small things community members can do to push back against the policies being rolled out by the incoming Trump administration.

Practical advice from Local Politics columnist Rachel Wenning on the small things community members can do to push back against the policies being rolled out by the incoming Trump administration.

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A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

The Other Columbus: The arts are not optional – Matter News What does arts and culture have to do with identity? Pretty much everything.

What does arts and culture have to do with identity? Pretty much everything.

This is the first in a series of four columns from @scottwoods.bsky.social focused on the local arts scene and running every other week through February.

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💯 - this is SO amazing.

Congratulations to all our Columbus Film Critics Association award winners!

cover image from an issue of In the Belly featuring a black and white illustration of a hooded individual bending the bars of a prison cell open and accompanied by information about the next Matter News Community conversation taking place at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters at 8 pm on Thursday, Jan. 16. The description for the event reads "Join representatives from the Returning Artists Guild and In the Belly – a publication produced for and by the incarcerated – to talk about the work of prison abolition, the harms enacted by the prison industrial complex, and the challenges of maintaining a sense of humanity while living within a system that treats people as anything but."

Our next Community Conversation takes place at
@twodollarradiohq.bsky.social at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16.

Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/events/12456...

The nominees are in & winners list coming Thursday!

The Top 10 Columbus Art Galleries of 2024 - Columbus Underground Columbus has many art galleries for your exhibition viewing pleasure, located all over the city.

Support your local art galleries! Here’s 10 great places to start: columbusunderground.com/the-top-10-c...