Archive for December, 2024
What’s been happening at San Pablo’s Lutheran Church on 15th Ave and 28th Street?
By RADICLE LAND COLLECTIVE The chaos of demo. SOURCE: RLC The community at San Pablo’s/Saint Paul’s is getting ready to install a peace and healing garden, complete with a meditative labyrinth. The first step to creating something like that is to prep the area and get rid of the grass! At Radicle, we try to process and keep as much as we can on site. This helps by reducing the need for transportation of waste material off site to another processing area, and keeps raw material for our use in the spring. With jumping worms being an increasing concern, keeping all material on site reduces the need to bring soil that may have the worms in it on site, and if the jumping worms are already present, keeps us from unintentionally spreading them. Jumping worms are especially dangerous to our local ecology because they are voracious eaters of our native wildflower root systems, and the ‘soil’ they leave behind changes the way water moves through soil, which alters the [...]
The Substance (2024)
Howard McQuitter II from the series Movie Corner... 4 out of 5 Stars Horror/DramaWorking Title Films By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Source: MUBI The Substance is no ordinary horror-drama film. A good part of the film’s strength lies with the actresses Demi Moore (Elisabeth Sparkle) and Margaret Qualley (Sue) and the other is the social piece dealing with society’s preoccupation with being young, especially for women. The premise is that Elisabeth Sparkle is a fitness presenter/trainer on a national morning TV show. (Many of you who read this column may not have been born when the late Richard Simmons had a TV fitness show in the 1980s.) Ms. Sparkle is fired by her self-serving television executive boss Harvey (Dennis Quaid) whose only problem with her is that she is now “too old”. She’s mystified and disheartened by her cruel dismissal from her career. Rather than moving on to a less glamorous job, she stumbles onto a black market lab that promises [...]
