Archive for January, 2025
What’s new with the East Phillips Urban Farm Project this month?

East Phillips Urban Farm Tour in December. Photo: Marcos Giossi EPNI raised $300,000 over the past two months thanks to the Mortenson Family Foundation, everyone who generously donated to our fall fundraiser, and a federal Community Energy Innovation Prize that we won in partnership with Cooperative Energy Futures. Thank you!In December, EPNI co-hosted a community meeting with some amazing partners to discuss watershed management and start to envision what rainwater recycling could look like at the Roof Depot site.EPNI recently expanded our outdoor farm team by hiring two Food Justice Historians and two Urban Farm Community Liaisons!Follow along and get in touch online at linktr.ee/epnifarm. Come build and dream with us!
A Real Pain (2024)

from the series Movie Corner... Drama/ComedySearchlight Pictures By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Searchlight Pictures Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale , The Social Network ) is director, actor, and writer of A Real Pain. Mr. Eisenberg and his costar Kieran Culkin (The Cider House Rules , No Sudden Move ) makes A Real Pain very captivating. The two men play first cousins. David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) meet in Warsaw, Poland’s airport to visit the Holocaust sites with an experienced tour guide, along with a handful of others of Jewish descent. The two men were close growing up, but over time became further apart. David is married with one small daughter living in a townhouse in a city in the U.S. while Benji is a drifter who hasn’t figured out a clear path for his future.Even though A Real Pain can be treated as a film that can easily fall into a category with a similar (if not an identical) theme, it successfully [...]