Archive for November, 2022
Boulevard Treasures
Kelly Shay created this autumn treasure at the October Minneapolis Edible Boulevards’ class: Maple Ginger Roasted Butternut Squash w/Green Beans and Corn. Photo by Edible Boulevards. By MICHELLE SHAW The Minneapolis Edible Boulevards Community Outreach Facilitator has been busy creating social media content, and we invite you to follow our new Instagram page. While you’re at it, join our Facebook page too. If you didn’t make it to our October cooking class with Kelly Shay, check out the recipe/video on our Facebook page. The Autumn Harvest Salad was absolutely delicious and perfect for using ingredients we’re growing in our gardens. For those who need a healthy recipe that doesn’t take much time, this is the one for you. Huge shout outs to Four Sisters Farm and Tamales y Bicicletas for hosting us on the Southside this summer and to the Seward Co-op, Eastside Co-op, Phillips Garden, and Lowe’s for sponsoring the classes and gardens this summer. On November 12, [...]
Movie Corner: Barbarian
20th Century Studios By HOWARD MCQUITTER II 20th Century Studios 2022Horror Barbarian is a very well-rounded horror film that, with its unpredictability and contradictions, is genuinely scary. For what seems like a normal house with normal trappings, below it is a house of horrors. Prepare to squirm in your seat when you see Barbarian. Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) is in Detroit (1980s) for a major convention. Finding hotel space full to capacity, discovers her Airbnb service has been double-booked at a “nice” house in a rundown neighborhood. It is night and pouring rain. Such a perfect setting for scares, a perfect place to be in the wrong places. She rings the doorbell to find another occupant is there. His name is is Keith (Bill Skarsgård, who played the murderous Pennywise the Clown) and he is as puzzled as she. He invites her to get out of the rain as everything seems to be “normal” inside the house. Understandably, Tess is wary of Keith; and Keith [...]
Movie Corner: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Warner Bros. By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Warner Bros. 1962Black &White Drama/Horror Thriller The drama/ thriller feels so much like Alfred Hitchcock, but it is directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen , Emperor of the North ). To this day, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has aged quite well. The story of two sisters starts as children in vaudeville in the early 1900s before becoming movie stars in Hollywood’s pre-Golden and Golden Ages. As for Jane (Bette Davis), her movies are often riddled with being difficult to work with besides her heavy drinking which will carry into her years long after acting. Blanche (Joan Crawford) on the other hand, is much easier to get along with in general and is a better actress than her cranky sister. The camera moves fast forward several decades later where the two two sisters who never married live in Rudolph Valentino’s old mansion which looks more inviting from its façade than it does inside. By this time, Blanche is [...]
