The latest buzz for Yolanda’s Tamales, however, was when the Warner Bros. film crew couldn’t get enough of one of Sacramento’s favorites. While in town shooting a movie with stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn, Yolanda’s beloved Mexican dishes quickly ...
A bomb expert calls out the sci-fi movieThe Abyssfor its lack of realism. Directed by James Cameron,The Abyssis a 1989 film that focuses on a group of divers who encounter an alien species while in search of a lost submarine. Considered one of Cameron’s most innovative works,The Abyssi...
Jansen, “Water Supply and Sewage Disposal at Mohenjo-Daro” in World Archaeology 21.2 (Oct 1989), 177-192. 11/ Shelves in the closet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKE2S-lHhRY 12/ The Minoans: Jesse has seen the plumbing at the palace at Knossos and spent a lot of time taking...
After Alton saw an orb hover in the distance in 1989 and concurrently experienced an hour of missing time, he, like Betty and Barney Hill in 1961, began having weird dreams and health/anxiety issues with no apparent explanation over the next months. UFOs were far from their minds; Alton di...
Ron and Erica married when I was pregnant with the Devil Child, though our “familial connection” extends farther back than that as she had referred me to her own Long Beach, CA, ob/gyn when I’d discovered my unexpected pregnancy with Mini-Me, way back in 1989! These two have moved...
Guatemala. This convent was one of the largest in the Americas, and it was almost totally destroyed in an earthquake in 1773 (the devastating Santa Maria earthquake). The ruined convent set empty and largely in rubble until 1989, when the Casa Santo Domingo project was developed and began res...
“Mr. Jaws” was a satire of the movie blockbuster Jaws, and was a Top 10 hit in the latter part of 1975.… Jump back to 1956. Rock ‘n’ roll music is starting to really break through to the masses. The charts are full of records by Elvis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee...
Before the Oscar ceremony this year I flashed back to Rob Lowe's low of 1989, dancing with Snow White, and I wished the ceremony would still include that tastelessness of yore. Alas, while times have changed since then, and a different form of tackiness prevails, Rob has remained as ...
In the coming months, thousands of Guatemalan refugees would find shelter in Chiapas. Camps would be established, and the genocide exposed. Years later, the full extent of the murderous campaign would be made public, but most of the perpetrators would not be punished. ...
In 1989, Kennett Love won his copyright infringement lawsuit against Kwitny for quoting extensively from the unpublished manuscript Love had written about the coup in 1960 without permission. The book was also heavily censored in subsequent editions. 1985 Brian Lapping’s documentary series End of ...