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I’ve been thinking a lot about heroes lately – what it means to be one, what it means to have one and who a few of mine have been. Yes, it’s this endless election that triggered the thought. But it isn’t because a hero of mine is leaving the White House and another is very likely entering. It’s because a hero gave me my love …
Thoughts on what it takes to choose a place to live for the very first time I have lived in six apartments since I moved out of my family’s home in New Jersey, and I didn’t technically pick any of them. #1 South Street, Chestnut Hill, MA A really dirty two-bedroom apartment, three hundred yards from the front gate of Boston College. …
Is Fox Searchlight’s Blindness to Nate Parker’s Film Fall the Real Problem? I’ve been struck over the past few months by the story surrounding Nate Parker‘s film The Birth of a Nation. If you’re unfamiliar here are the key elements: Actor/director/writer Nate Parker made a film called The Birth of A Nation (which he wrote, directed and stars in) The film sold at this year’s Sundance film festival for …
Part I: Foxy Knoxy Last Friday night R and I watched the Amanda Knox documentary on Netflix. I have admittedly been obsessed with this case since it broke. I too studied abroad in Italy and am almost the same age as Amanda. In many way this truly could have been me straight down to the diary of steamy stories. I went into the documentary with an …