The San Francisco Film Festival wrapped up Its 2021 program with a screening of the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. Good choice SFFILM! Sesame Street, still the gold standard of children’s programming worldwide, was the first racially integrated television show, born out of the mind of Joan Ganz Cooney, inspired by…
The San Francisco Film Festival presented the North American premiere of The Dry, a genuinely entertaining mystery/drama/who-done-it set in a fictional drought-ridden Australian town, a very dry town. The film is based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, starring the eternally handsome Eric Bana as Federal Agent Aaron Falk, returning to his hometown after twenty years to…
Major props to the San Francisco Film Festival for re-inventing the film-going experience in response to the Pandemic of 2021. April 9 – 18, the folks at SFFILM put together an ambitious program combining online and in-person viewing opportunities. As we all know, part of the fun of a film festival is going to the…
KRINGLE: WISCONSIN’S POORLY KEPT SECRETNo matter where you live there’s probably a favorite local food, a treat that expats wax rhapsodic about. Besides being America’s Dairyland, Wisconsinites, known as Cheese Heads, love their cheese (duh), beer, Chubs (fish), and bratwurst. Then there is the Kringle. WHAT THE HECK IS A KRINGLE?Step into the way-back machine…
Though steadily becoming more common, inclusive size ranges are few and far between. Illustrated by the line drawn in stores between the plus section and the “regular” section, or when sorting by size while online shopping, and finding that the largest option is an “XL”. And most easily seen in bodies that brands use to…
Canceled plans and postponed travel have been the norm for 2020, and for the moment, it looks like 2021 will not be straying from this reality. However, while you may not be able to hop on a plane to visit a new city today, you can certainly find joy in planning a few trips to…
My first exposure to environmental activism art was in 2018, during a visit to Bruges, an enchanting European canal city. It is hard to forget a 5-ton towering whale made from plastic waste. Be assured, the emotional connection from such a grand visual statement can and will result in inspiring immediate change. The near 40-foot-high…