Shel'S Shorts

Where does hate and intolerance come from? On the streets, on social media and in national campaigns, it infuses the conversation about the [...]

The story goes like this: It was 1920 and 24-year-old Tennessee state legislator Harry Burn was faced with a choice. Thirty-five of the [...]

You’re a smart, clued-in Alibi reader, so clearly you have a fairly good idea about the impact climate change will have on the [...]

Gigi Bella’s new collection Big Feelings is not a narrative work, but its poems flow like a drive through the streets, stopping at [...]

With in-person school out this fall, you can also count out field trips. Sad but true, students and chaperones alike are going to [...]

Like it or not, a transformation is underway as our social fabric is tested, our economy challenged, our immune systems confronted and our [...]

“The future is unwritten,” or so says Joe Strummer, but one thing is clear: It’s going to be a very different year at [...]

It is safe to assume at this point that school pictures are off this year. Good riddance, some may say, with their dull [...]

Ellen Lesperance is a painter interested in the sweaters worn by the protesting women during the 19 years of an all-women anti-nuclear protest [...]