Reading and Roaming
NOTEWORTH MOVIES Continuing to focus on likely Oscar nominees, the Chief Penguin and I watched two recent films on Netflix last week. Both included music, but one was intense and unconventional; the other was reflective and the winding down of a career and a life. The films are Emilia Perez and Maria. GENDER TRANSITION AND MORE Emilia Perez (Netflix, in Spanish …
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Enjoying school assemblies, thinking about the girls of today, and sampling the cuisines of Manhattan.
EATING: LUNCH IN CARRBORO Last week, our Abroad at Home outing was to Pizzeria Mercato, a Carrboro pizza place favored by my sister and brother-in-law. Some local folks may well remember Magnolia Grill, an all-time great restaurant in Durham. We would dine there every time we visited family in North Carolina. Ben and Karen Barker won numerous awards …
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MOVIE THERAPY Love Actually (free on Amazon Prime) After a week that left many of us sad, disappointed, bruised, angry, and scared about the future, I decided that we needed a movie that would be fun and take us a bit out of ourselves. On Friday night, the Chief Penguin and I watched Love Actually, a film from 2003. …
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