The Whole Gritty City
Last week Richard Barber accepted a Christopher Award for everyone involved in the making of The Whole Gritty City, acknowledging the “higher purpose” behind it’s art. Sometimes the Maryknoll’s mission’s in just the right position. They’re the Merton-esque Catholic charity we prayed for in 3rd grade, here giving credit where it is due. Camilla and […]
The Whole Gritty City
The CBS network premier of The Whole Gritty City by Richard Barber and Andre Lambertson tonight survived the remade-for -TV cuts to commercial-after-commercial to reach that audience beyond ‘people like us’ to people who really need to know; the politicians and parents who wistfully aver to arts education as useless in their technocratic promised land. […]