Reading and Roaming
FOOD FOR THE BRAIN This week we attended in person the first program in the Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning (SILL) 2023 Global Issues series. It was the first time we’d been back live since Covid. Attendance was sparse compared to earlier years, but the speaker was excellent. Former Ambassador Barbara Stephenson is the inaugural vice-provost for global affairs …
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HURRICANE IAN It was a wild and crazy week for many residents of Florida, especially those on the southwest coast. Ian initially was predicted to hit near the Tampa area and a bit south and then went farther east and pummeled the folks in North Port, Englewood, Ft. Myers, Sanibel, and Captiva. We left our …
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DC SOCIAL SCENE ON SCREEN Georgetown (Amazon Prime) Georgetown, a movie offering from Prime, is inspired by shocking real events. Mot, an immigrant to the U.S., aspires to grand adventures and a role in the diplomatic world. Charming and debonair, he meets a grand dame socialite and former journalist, invites her to lunch and flatters her. When Elsa’s husband dies, …
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DOCUDRAMA OF FALSE IDENTITY INVENTING ANNA (Netflix) Anna Delvey, Russian by birth, presented herself in New York as a German heiress with a large trust fund. Only 25, she grandly aspired to create a club cum art gallery called ADF, the Anna Delvey Foundation. Poised, confident, and brazen, she led the high life, courted the A-list of society, …
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