‘Arts’ Archives
Movie Corner: Last Night in Soho
Universal (2021) ★★★★★ By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Last Night in Soho to its credit is quite spellbinding, thanks in large part to cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung (who also is the cinematographer with director Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz . What director Edgar Wright does convincingly well is how he segues genres, drama, horror and mystery. Adding to this fascinating film is a tribute to many 1960s rock/R&B songs. (The title for Last Night in Soho is a reference to a 1960s rock band, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.) The story begins with a young woman, Eloise (Thomasin McKenkie from JoJo Rabbit), with big aspirations to go London to be a fashion designer but not without a warning about moving to the big city from Peggy (Rita Tushingham). Eloise loves 60s music and styles. Her first nights are in the dorm with some other students who love to party and go to bars. She feels out of place [...]
New Mural at Phillips West Community Garden
By LAURA HULSCHER The Phillips West Fall Fest and Annual Meeting was held on November 6th outside the Swedish American Institute. Here neighbors led by Daja Shanklin of Self Made Creative Learning paint a mural for the new Phillips West Community Garden. The garden is on the northeast corner of Portland Avenue South and 28th Street.
ADVENT CANDLE: PEACE
A POEM BY THOMAS R. SMITH Peace to the goose with the broken wing, eliciting the maddening kindness of human beings, maddening because inconsistently applied. Peace to the snapping turtle burrowed in the riverbottom mud, frozen and sealed as if for Judgment Day. Peace to the queen bee in her hive, kept warm at the center of a ball made of thousands of her subjects, not all of whom will survive the winter. Peace to the bear in her leafy den, giving birth in her sleep, as it seems that poets sometimes do, astonished to awaken to the bright, hungry eyes of the poem. Peace to the trees keeping their minds on heaven, while holding fast the under-sky of roots and mycelia. Peace to the clouds, shielding the sun from the glaring follies of humans [...]
