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I can’t stop thinking about this documentary Pray The Devil Back To Hell. I saw it in the Spring of 2008 when it premiered during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. I was working there at the time – in the sponsorship department – so I snuck in to see a 10am screening at one of our theaters in the East Village. Word on the street was that …
I can’t figure out if I want to buy a house or, if I do, what kind of house I want to buy. I think I mentioned that R and I are house hunting? Yeah, I did. So really this should be what kind of house I want us to buy but there’s a u in us so I’m allowed to work it out a little first, …
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 …
As you may have heard, some sexist Olympics newscasters made some incredibly dumb statements about female athletes. There was this: “And there’s the man responsible for turning his wife into a totally new swimmer…” from NBC’s Dan Hicks about powerhouse Katinka Hosszu and husband/couch Shane Tusup (a challenging personality who has drawn concern for his treatment of Hosszu). This gem from The Chicago Tribune: Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t …
This morning I finally went through the full Fall TV shows schedule so that I could properly DVR all my programming, so that I could work my Class Pass schedule around my TV viewing schedule, so that I know exactly which nights I can walk to Mainland Poke on 3rd Street for dinner. I thought you might be interested to know so that we can blog/tweet/’gram/complain about it …
In lieu of my own post today I’m re-printing the words of my husband R as a tribute to Jon Stewart’s final night as host of The Daily Show. I don’t feature R’s wise, clear and incredibly sincere thoughts enough on the blog. This felt like a nice opportunity. Farewell Jon. I’ll miss you, but I’ll miss R laughing his high-pitched chest laugh at you while he watches …
I’ve decided to get a little Emily Post up in here considering there is no current Emily Post and she made it all up anyway. My first order of gauntlet throwing: the social media + break-up connection: what do you do with all those photos after the relationship is no more? I think we need to handle this on a case-by-case basis, which I’ve outlined …
…with my friend and L.A.’s hottest taxidermist: Allis Marham Allis is the owner of Prey Taxidermy studio in Downtown LA, a taxidermist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and probably the only human pin-up model who would totally dominate should the world go full Mad Max. Seriously, she’s the ultimate modern girl scout troop leader: she can throw her hair in victory rolls, …