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Film critique: Remember when assholes were cool?
This clip showed up in my YouTube feed yesterday: This was totally cool when I first saw “Bullitt” when it came out in 1968: cool guy, cool car, super cool chase. Now that I’m old with children and grandchildren, it hits me: What the hell was the city of San Francisco thinking when it allowed…
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Musical interlude: When Men Were Gods
By an aspiring songwriter: Do you want to go back to the days when men were gods? Tie a virgin to an altar and then take away her heart. Palaces and temples rise above the desert sand, Slave built monuments to conquerors of land. Bow before the Pharaohs. On your knees to temple priests. Live your…
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Brilliant Exiles: Wonderful Exhibit
Life isn’t all politics (thank God), because there always is art, which may be political, but not blood pressure raising. The Speed Museum, on the University of Louisville campus, currently has the best exhibit I’ve ever seen there: ” Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939.” According to the museum, the exhibit: … (R)ecaptures the…
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Art for art’s sake: a national perspective
USA Today says these are the top 10 art districts in the U.S.: ‘ Dallas Arts District — Dallas Bronzeville Art District — Chicago Warehouse Arts District — St. Petersburg, Fla. University Circle — Cleveland The El Paso Downtown Arts District — El Paso Fondren District —Jackson, Miss. Santa Fe Railyard Arts District — Santa…
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Bourbon loving MAGA! This is on you
Explain to me why you all created a trade crisis and voted for tariffs that will make your bourbon more expensive. Plus you’ve pissed off all the overseas importers for??? Reasons?? From the AP: Brewing trade conflicts with Canada and Mexico risk driving up the price of U.S. spirits in those markets. The biggest risk…
