** "It's the war after the war. You're carrying the demons - and to find a way through the devil's dark moments. You bring the war home with you, you bring the war home to your community..."

Vondie Curtis-Hall Talks Sheepdog, The Projectionist. And his portrayal as a mentally destroyed Vietnam veteran in Sheepdog, that is for him both personal and political. While alongside his young co-star, and the director as well as screenwriter Steven Grayhm as a troubled veteran of contemporary war - a simultaneously grim yet probing portrait of PTSD in the context of endless US wars.

The African American filmmaker as well as actor, as the director of the Tupac Shakur starring mean streets Medicaid satire, Gridlock'd, also discusses his upcoming role as 'The Projectionist' - the opening night feature next month of the Slamdance Film Festival. In which he stars in the Alexandre Rockwell directed drama as the melancholy, despondent projectionist inhabiting a decaying abandoned arthouse theater, haunted by his past wrongful conviction...

** "The thieves are trying to steal every dime they can, before the ATM closes..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon follows the money - from the US puppet leader in Afghanistan fleeing with millions in US cash tumbling out of his van, to Donald Trump Jr. in Monaco scoping out all the Bugattis and luxury cars with Ukrainian tags...

** "Trump says Greenland is a national security priority - that means there's something under it..."

UK Desk: About Greenland. With connections to 'boats, billionaires, and mainstream news cycles; ego, gold and GDP's, missionaries, monopolies and colonial rule - and planting military infrastructure like patio furniture...'

"I want back my rocking chairs...make room for wonder..."

Writers Corner: Reading from the poetry of Minneapolis ICE murder victim Renee Good, who won the Academy Of American Poets Award as a college student back then...

Artist Noval Noir creating live a painting of Renee Good at the memorial site of her ICE murder on Portland Avenue, Minneapolis...

** "Seeing Both Sides - Bad Politics, Bad TV: In the same breath it both criticizes and adores..."

Bro On The Global Television Beat: Same political sidelining, different day. Small screen series wrap-up report 2025 - and the top ten of the year...