‘Arts’ Archives
Hope Academy Students: Painting a story of Peace, Equality, and Teamwork with Tenacity on 48”' canvas
By Catherine Tong Students from Hope Academy are sharing a story, but this story will contain few written words. It is the story of a Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman and is told with paint on a 48”' long stretch of canvases. It is the story of a woman who planted hope for her people, and it”'s told by 60 students who are beginning to paint their own life stories. Listen in. Wangari”'s story: Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940. After attending university in the U.S., Wangari returned to Kenya only to find her homeland ravaged by deforestation and her people suffering the consequences. One seedling at a time, Wangari began a movement of tree planting, known as The Greenbelt Movement, in her village, surrounding cities, and eventually across Kenya. Although she faced much opposition, Wangari persevered in order to help her people provide themselves with firewood, clean drinking water, balanced diets, shelter, and income. While she led the way, Maathai said, [...]
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
By Howard McQuitter II Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) **** DreamWorks. Animation/Adventure/Family Cast: Ty Burrell (Mr. Peabody, voice), Max Charles (Sherman, voice), Ariel Winter (Penny Peterson, voice), Leslie Mann (Patty Peterson, voice), Guillaune Arestos (Robespierre, voice), Lauri Fraser (Marie Antoinette/Egyptian Woman, voice), Stanley Tucci (Leonardo da Vinci, voice). (PG) Running time:92 minutes. Languages: Spanish/English. Director: Rob Minkoff. I find myself going back in time”“fondly”“with “Peabody”'s Improbable History” as a segment of “Rocky and His Friends” which debuted on ABC in 1959 and later known as “The Bullwinkle Show” on NBC. The animation show created by Jay Wards Productions as a half-hour cartoon featured Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, and their archenemies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale; then there is Mountie Dudley Do-Right, a good but [...]
Philip Seymour Hoffman: July 23, 1967- February 2, 2014
One of Hollywood”'s most gifted actors and reaching today”'s rare status of an actor”'s actor, Mr. Philip Seymour Hoffman, died of an overdose of heroin in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, February 2,2014, the same day as Super Bowl XLVIII. He was 46. A most unfortunate fate for an actor with immense talent loved by studios, critics and audiences alike. Rather than reiterate the sad saga of the man”'s life falling on his own in the current heroin epidemic in America, I will write some of the directors he worked under and the films he was in: (more…)
