But he struck a decidedly more populist note on the topic of wealth inequality — which he brought up when the Times asked him about waning trust in CEOs and his responsibility in dispelling it. Here’s his full answer:
“Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, and we need to address that,” he said. “We should have a national wealth tax — it won’t work by state because people will just move. And I think we should have inheritance taxes that get close to 100% at some level. I would pay them.”
Category: Local / Living
A Week in the Life of Gaza – Guardian Series
We follow five ordinary people – a 12-year-old boy, a professor, a pregnant woman, a skateboarder and a grandmother – through their days, with all of the difficulty and joy that they encounter. This is what a week in the life of Gaza looks like.
‘We skate on the rooftops of damaged buildings’: a day in the life of a skateboarder in Gaza
‘This is where I live now, the back of a truck’: a day in the life of a grandmother in Gaza
Gaza: a week in the life
This series captures seven days of daily life Gaza, through the eyes of five ordinary citizens, as the war pushes deep into its third year
16th Street – Denver – October 17, 2026
Hunger in Colorado – 2026 – Google AI on
Food insecurity in Colorado has surged dramatically, with a recent Colorado Health Access Survey finding that 17.8% of adults (more than 1 in 6) reported they could not afford all the food they needed. According to coverage from NPR and its local partner, Colorado Public Radio (CPR), this marks a massive jump from 10.5% during the same period in the previous year.Local reporting highlights a “perfect storm” of economic pressures straining both Colorado families and emergency food systems:
- Rising Costs: While general grocery prices have shown minor stabilization, specific staples like beef, fresh fruits, and vegetables have continued to outpace broader inflation categories, placing an immense burden on household budgets.
- Federal Food Aid Cuts: Food banks have experienced severe supply drops due to a 37% reduction in available food through the federal Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Simultaneously, stricter work requirements introduced for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have cut or restricted benefits for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans.
- Child Hunger: The crisis is hitting children especially hard, with an estimated 157,000 children (1 in 6) facing food insecurity across the state—an increase of 30,000 kids in just a year.
Jimmy Page at Sears Hardware Department
In 1990 I was working in Sears in the hardware department. Some scraggly looking guy came in with a long trenchcoat and John Lennon looking glasses and hair that looked like it hadn’t been washed in probably three months. Nobody wanted to deal with him and he looked like he was poor and I started talking to him and eventually he bought a whole set of craftsman tools and a garage door opener. When it was time to pay, he handed over his Sears charge card and I looked at it and it said JAMES PAGE. He saw my reaction and I looked up and he said “Yes mate, that one.”
I couldn’t say anything… he was too cool.
He asked for a piece of of paper and all I had was a sears paper … he signed it for me. I still have it today.
Random Pics – Denver- Early October, 2026
Denver Film Festival – October 22nd – November 1st, 2026
Power to the People Fest
A Day of Peace, Love, Justice, and Music
Power To The People is a celebration of peace, love, justice, music and community action. Curated by Tom Morello, this one-day event at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD is about the power everyday human beings have when they come together — through music, art, community and action — to shape our country and our planet on, and beyond, Election Day.
NAZA – Trailer
Sylvester Stallone Interview – New York Times
In the book you seem to suggest that both your parents saw your arrival as having ruined their ambitions in some way. You wrote, “Can you really make people proud who never wanted you in the first place?” And when you were very little, you were sent to go live in a boardinghouse, and your parents only visited you once a month. How did you understand that as a kid?
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You keep using the word “tough.” But I don’t hear tough. I hear messed up.
You know, you’re right. I’m using “tough” as a masculine banner for something much more perverse and weird.And dark. And dark.
Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.
From Amazon:
The Steps: A Memoir
A gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told.
Random Pics – Denver – September 8, 2026
This American Life – Fan Data and Insights
I was first introduced to This American Life about a decade ago, right after the podcast, then a relatively novel media format, got sensationalized by the true crime show Serial. Only later did I find out about the shared DNA between the two shows. Life comes full circle.
Over the past thirty years, since Ira Glass started This American Life, the show has grown from a personal passion project (formerly called Your Radio Playhouse) discussing the everyday lives of ordinary Americans into one that touches millions of listeners, covering major events across the globe and making a real impact on the people its team cares about.
As the show approaches its 900th episode, every one of which I’ve listened to at least once and many more than that, I decided to dissect it and find the recipe for what makes it such a fascinating show to me and millions of others: what it talks about week over week, who has been telling these stories, what makes them so immersive to listen to, and all the real-life impact it has made. Let’s go.
https://milesmeters.com/pieces/this-american-life/
I used 3 weeks to gather data, analyze, and build a site dissecting ~900 episodes of This American Life over 30 years. As a die-hard fan of the show, some insights are as expected (e.g., themes, contributors), but some are genuinely surprising (e.g., songs & artists).
Denver – September 18, 2026 – Random Pics – Parking Lots at Night
70 Up – Final Installment of Up Film Series
In 1964, Canadian director Paul Almond filmed a group of 14 British schoolchildren aged seven years-old for a documentary called “Seven Up!” examining the lives of kids across class divides. Seven years later, the children were filmed again, this time by British director Michael Apted, for “14 Up.” Apted went on to revisit them every seven years, charting their progress, resulting in a further seven films, each equally spaced seven years apart. The result has become one of the most remarkable and original longitudinal documentary series in the world.
Apted, who died in 2019, did not live to see the final two-part instalment, “70 Up,” the first of which airs Tuesday evening in the U.K. on ITV (a U.S. broadcast hasn’t yet been finalized). The baton was handed to “Amy” director Asif Kapadia, who documents 12 of the surviving septuagenarians as they reflect on their lives (two of the original cohort, Lynn Johnson and Nick Hitchon, died during the course of the series).
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/70-up-definitive-longitudinal-documentary-1236854131/
SEE ALSO:
https://edhawkes.com/2021/01/10/michael-apted-interview-fresh-air/
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1whmgwr/70_up_review_a_deeply_moving_conclusion_for_the/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)
