Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland
Posted on · Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.
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Houston Matters
Westerns As Morality Plays: High Noon And The Hollywood Blacklist
Posted on · Writer Glenn Frankel discusses High Noon as a parable about the Hollywood blacklist. Then, film critic Joe Leydon talks about why the genre of Westerns fell out of favor.
Houston Matters
North Korea Tensions: How Did We Get Here?
Posted on · (Above:Â North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is shown on a TV at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea on Sunday, May 14, 2017. Photo: Ahn Young-joon |AP) North Korea and the U.S. have been antagonistic since the 1950s and the Korean War — and it’s never really seemed to cool down in the […]
Houston Matters
Westerns as Morality Plays: High Noon and the Hollywood Blacklist
Posted on · (Above: Gary Cooper in a scene from the 1952 Western “High Noon.”) Tonight (March 1, 2017) at 7 at Brazos Bookstore, journalist Glenn Frankel will discuss his new book, called High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. The book is about the classic Hollywood western High Noon, which, of course, […]
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Political Roundup, and the Best Places to Watch Sports in Houston: Wednesday’s Show (March 1, 2017)
Posted on · For the first time, President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night (Feb. 28, 2017). Plus the Texas Legislature continued into its eighth week. On this edition of Houston Matters, we convene our weekly political roundup to discuss the those and other political stories happening at the national, state and local […]