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Oh Don’t You Cry for Me by Philip Shirley

by Abby Margulies

[26.Jun.08] :. In the sweltering heat of America's South, Philip Shirley conjures up a surprisingly insightful group of characters that are at once disturbed, complex, and woefully hopeful.

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State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama

by Matt Mazur

[11.Apr.08] :. In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.

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In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton

by Chadwick Jenkins

[7.Mar.08] :. This is a different story of the blues; it is the story of those people (primarily white men and women) who were in search of something that they believed the blues or some other form of secular and "primitive" African-American music communicated in an undiluted manner.

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