About Dick Price

Dick Price is Editor of the LA Progressive. With his wife Sharon, he publishes several other print and online newsletters on political and social justice issues. He has worked in publishing as a writer, editor, and publisher for a quarter century, currently serving as associate publisher for the IEEE Computer Society. In earlier releases, he was a cab driver, bartender, construction worker, soldier, and farmhand, and for many years helped operate a nonprofit halfway house for homeless alcoholics and addicts. To contact him, please use the form on the Contact Us page.

From Morse Code to Martin Buber to Net Neutrality and Beyond

April 7, 2012 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

In Eternal Thou, playwright and director Matthew McCray builds a science fiction world that traces the development of the telecommunication industry’s evolution from Morse code through rudimentary Defense Department computer networks to a futurist all-encompassing, sentient, almost living Internet that ultimately brings us closer to God.

Filed Under: Stage Tagged With: Appelbaum, Atwater Village, Department Computer, Development Of Arpanet, Evolving Technology, Google, Jeffrey Johnson, Liam Springthorpe, Martin Buber, Matthew Mccray, Morse Code, Net Neutrality, Philosophical Insights, Preferential Rates, S Vision, Science Fiction World, Sose, Steven Speilberg, Telecom Giants, Telecommunication Industry

5 Days in Denver: Rage Muted

March 26, 2012 By Dick Price 1 Comment

Dick Price: 5 Days in Denver thus is an eye-catching, behind-the-scenes look at how to build a street demonstration and a portrait of the deep-seated discomfort — at least some Americans feel — with the direction our country has been heading.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: barack obama, Camera Work, Clever Graphics, Country Music Videos, Court Appearances, Denver Convention, Film Debut, Film Producer, Impressive Film, Length Film, Obama For President, Peaceful Demonstrations, Pepsi Center, Political Organizers, Protest Marches, Random Images, Recreate 68, Stark Reality, Television Specials, Welter

Not So Young Adult

January 16, 2012 By Dick Price 3 Comments

Dick Price: “Young Adults” popped out, I suppose because we had enjoyed other films Theron has made — “North Country” and “Monster” come quickly to mind — a good choice, it turned out.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Adult Movie, Adult Movies, Adult Romance, Bartender, Brunch, Charlize Theron, Coffeehouse, Colorado Boulevard, Evenings, Financial Discipline, First Date, Gigs, Laemmle, Marquee, Movie Review, Nearby Park, Online Dating Service, Oung, patrick wilson, Patton Oswalt, Showings, Sidewalk, Watering Holes, Young Adult, Young Adults

The Children Who Feed Us

August 4, 2011 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

Dick Price: The documentary “The Harvest/La Consecha” puts a human face on the 400,000 children who help harvest America’s crops as migrant farm workers season after season.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Abject Poverty, Better Life, Cesar Chavez, Cherry Orchards, Child Farmworkers, Distant Field, Grape Boycott, Harvest Season, Human Face, Injustice, Michigan Apple Orchards, Migrant Workers, Radicchio, Roberto Romano, Shallots, Strawberries, Third World Country, Tomato Fields, Uncertain Journey, United Farm Workers

“Ruined,” But Not Forever?

September 12, 2010 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

Dick Price: “Ruined,” tells the improbably uplifting story of a tawdry haven from an unimaginably cruel world where soldiers and the rebels they fight routinely rape, mutilate, and murder women for sport.

Filed Under: Stage Tagged With: arts, captions, civil war, democratic republic of the congo, forever, geffen playhouse, impossible dream, lynn nottage, mama, mama nadi's, nadi f.c., performing arts, pulitzer prize, pulitzer prize for drama, ruined, ruins, soldier, theatre, uplifting stories

Why Pat Tillman’s Death Matters

September 10, 2010 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

The Tillman Story fleshes out the tragic arc of Pat Tillman’s life in what becomes less an anti-war movie and more the story of one family’s struggle for truth.

Filed Under: Film

Laughing So Hard

November 26, 2009 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

So, right, it’s a wonderful movie, and as much as the LA Progressive does such things, we give it four stars, a kiss and a hug and a pat on the behind, and recommend that you see it. But I think we were touched with something more that night.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: entertainment, films, hug, laugh, los angeles, mass media, movies, pat, phillip seymour hoffman, pirate, pirate radio, pirates radio, Radio Boats, rado, Realities, Rebellion, Richard Curtis, the boat that rocked, the pirate bay, wonderful

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