A throbbing new 45, "Terrorize My Heart," lands on Sept. 16.
In many traditionally Catholic countries, including the Vatican's Italian heart-land, much less has been heard about the subject.
Look, for example, at the personally courageous stance of Hamza Yusuf, an American-born scholar with a wide following in the Islamic heart-land, in denunciation of Islamic State, its aims and methods.
Limassol's rise from a humble market town between the ancient settlements of Amathus and Curium took place at the end of the Byzantine Empire, when Richard I the Lion-Heart landed there in 1191 and was married to Berengaria of Navarre in the chapel of a castle fortress, now a regional museum and one of only two surviving buildings of the period.
But "Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary," a documentary by Stephen Vittoria, is proof that there are still outspoken champions of views too radicalized to qualify as left-wing: people distrustful of law enforcement, the political system, the justice system, the news media and the very notion that America is at heart the land of the free.
With the singer Lyle Lovett as host and the actor Michael Murphy as narrator, "Last Stand" chronicles the evolution of the North American prairies as a whole -- from their genesis in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains to their destruction with the advent of row-crop farming -- but especially the region of tall grasses at their heart, a land of stark beauty and harsh climate.
They state that the "tribal values of giving, sharing and trading are at the heart of land care and food sovereignty" and that "the core of food sovereignty is reclaiming public decision-making power in the food system".
A heart attack landed her in intensive care, and her coronary-artery disease proved so advanced as to be inoperable.
The playwright Dennis Potter, who was born in the Forest of Dean and often set his work in the "heart-shaped land" he grew up in, put into words what I have always felt passionately: "I love the place very much and..
