Joy Ride (2023) 90% #27 Critics Consensus: Joy Ride isn't afraid to shock with its gross-out gags, but this road trip's real surprise is how successfully it blends its raunchy humor with real heart. Synopsis: The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-...
Pi Day 2023 Pi Day is upon us! The official day that celebrates the astonishing discovery in 1988 that the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi (π≅3.14) correspond to the calendar date using the month/day format (3/14). Provided, that is, that you don’t use the MM-...
November isNative American Heritage Month—and as is true for any month formally designated on a calendar as a time to celebrate a historically marginalized culture, ethnicity, gender, or sexual identity, a single month is not enough to contain the richness, diversity, challenges, inequities, trium...
There simply aren’t enough hours in the day or days in the month to learn all there is to learn or to understand it adequately. Trying is always, to some extent, a rewarding failure. But the books linked above offer a good start on an important era, and you may consider them ...
“And yet, you get here and lose your heart.” Charles Banks Wilson by bob.dotson | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog, Hiding in History's Shadow For years artist Charles Banks Wilson crisscrossed the West stopping in small town pool halls and churches seeking faces that make each Indian tribe unique...
Fifteen years ago, this month, I quit my job and set off for Paris. On March 19, in fact. It was everything I dreamed it would be. And more. A lot led up to that trip. Like many who work in the health care field, I was Burnt. Out. I was angsting my way through a quarter...
Oh sweet wind, the month of Tut,The lock of summer is melted and gone.Fly away over the roofs, my heart,To the house without ivy or jasmine,To the mother of the eyes The eyes with hard words and sad smilesAnd say to her,“Oh friend to those who wanderYour friend who has loved ...
heart drumming this is how we muzzle the world — Yesenia Montillais an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. Her first collection The Pink Box was published by Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN award...
On that note, I think it’s best to wrap up a week—and a month—that has seen plans go out the window with a quote borrowed from Barack Obama: “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out ...
A quarter of the population of Cambodia died during this 45-month reign of terror, during which the Communist “red Cambodians” set out to restructure the country as an agrarian society in the style of Mao Tse-tung’s China. Cities were evacuated and an unprepared population was sent to wo...