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…
Feeling fit and looking for a challenge, or need some inspiration to show up at the gym? We followed elite athlete Debra Weier from Princeton, New Jersey as she pushed herself to her physical limits in beautiful Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, during the 2019 Vega Ironman World Championship. What’s it like to swim 2 miles, bike 100 miles…
Is your cell phone spying on you? How about the ATM, your smart TV, your private messages on Facebook, every card swipe, computer keystroke, and emoji? Be afraid, be very afraid. Data is now the world’s biggest commodity, surpassing oil. The Great Hack, a Netflix original, reveals how our data is bought and sold without…
Have you ever been to a low budget wedding where they forgo the professional photographer in favor of cell phone paparazzi? Seems anyone can wave a camera phone around and call themselves an artist. That doesn’t make the results worthy of the big screen. Like a Prayer should never have made it past YouTube. A…
A young lad named Freddie Burretti met rising star David Bowie at a London club, and soon afterward became the collaborator and creator of the Ziggy Stardust persona. Burretti’s otherworldly gender-bending costumes were way ahead of their time amid the homophobia of the 1970s. What a fantastic career he had. I wish I could say…
The Netflix mini-series Tales of the City had its world premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM). Armistead Maupin’s Tales began in 1976 as a popular serialized column in the San Francisco Chronicle. The story began with the newly arrived Mary Ann, naive, and wide-eyed as she meets her eccentric fellow tenants on…