A mechanical doll, a young singer, and a Venetian courtesan. All are loved by Hoffmann, the central character of the “Tales of Hoffmann,” a captivating opera where reality and fantasy become one. Based on three stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the opera follows the love of Hoffmann for Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta. Despite being a dark…
Film Review: ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’: In a Word, Adorable
PG-13 | 1h 45m | Coming-of-age, Dramedy | April 28, 2023 Tween-girl bible, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” written by Judy Blume, is about an 11-year-old girl praying to God to speed up the maturation process. Could she please-please-please have something (other than socks) to fill out the training bra? And also a reason to actually…
Love, in Sickness and in Health, Springs Forth From Rembrandt’s Floras
Rembrandt sketched, drew, and painted his beloved wife, Saskia, throughout their marriage—in sickness and in health, right until her death parted them. He depicted her in every way he could. In his artworks, we see Saskia the woman, wife, mother, and muse. We see her disheveled upon waking; laughing with her husband; and as majestic…
A Detectorist in a Royal English Court
April 30, 2023
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A popular children’s pastime of hunting for buried treasure begins with dreams of unearthing pots of gold or a cache of jewels, but usually ends with potholes in a backyard revealing nothing more than sticks and stones. Those who continue to try their luck as adults use a better tool than a spade and shovel:…
Ocean Grove: Jersey Shore’s Unique Victorian Town
In the mid-1970s, my friend and I were riding along Route 71, south of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ready to explore the Jersey Shore. I was riding in her green Camaro on Sunday afternoon, when we drove past a community entrance road that was chained shut with a safety barricade out front. “That’s Ocean Grove,”…
Film Review: ‘To Catch a Killer’: Not ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ but Not Bad at All
R | 1h 59m | Police procedural, Thriller | April 21, 2023 After running up 17 flights of stairs in a burning building with no gas-mask, young Baltimore cop Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) passes out cold when she reaches the incinerated apartment of her destination. But her gung-ho first-responder zeal is duly noted by FBI lead investigator Geoffrey…
Mapping Art: How Maps Guided a Texas Artist to a Successful Career
April 29, 2023
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Christopher Alan Smith’s journey to becoming a prominent artist in Texas is a rather direct one. Born in 1971, decades before the rise of the internet and when families still climbed aboard their four-wheeled vessels for road trips, Smith fell in love with maps. Seated in the backseat with the multi-fold map stretched from end-to-end,…
Documentary Reviews: ‘Inside the Red Brick Wall’ and ‘Taking Back the Legislature’
Were it not for Kate Adie and her colleague at the BBC, we would have far less footage of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. They made five copies of their eye-witness recordings, four of which were intercepted by customs. Had the fifth copy also been confiscated, it would have been much easier for the Chinese Communist…
The Myth of Er
Well, I said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He was slain in battle, and ten days afterwards, when the bodies of the dead were…
Michigan Judge Appeals to Americans for Morality Reform
Mark Boonstra has been on the cutting edge to witness the social and moral decline of America. After practicing private law for nearly three decades, he has sat on Michigan’s 3rd District Court of Appeals for the past decade. His adherence to the letter of the law and his disdain for judicial activism has drawn…
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