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Alta Live: Disney’s First Female Storyteller

Shannon McHugh joins Alta Live to share Bianca Majolie’s struggles in an all-male workplace, her forward-thinking perspective, and the artist’s important impact on cinema.

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Issue 32: Road Trips—The Hidden West

Inside Alta Journal ’s Issue 32.

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TO THE RESCUE

A Mission to Save the West Coast’s Last Racing Greyhounds

Rescuing the West Coast’s last greyhounds.

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THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC

Scoring a Legend

Film journalist Tim Greiving takes on the towering task of telling John Williams’s life story—capturing the man behind the music that’s defined modern cinema.

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Alta Folio: ‘The Old Silo’—A Noir Comic

Noir’s characters try to do the right thing in an indifferent universe.

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David Harris Might Be Dying, but He Continues to Resist

Few resisters from the Vietnam antiwar era had a bigger impact than David Harris, who inspired generations to have the courage of their convictions.

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