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Art For All
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL, Semilla Center The Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts at St. Paul”™s believes that creating art together can be a way of healing for individuals and communities. Semilla will host an “Art Block Party” for Block Clubs, where artists will create art with your neighbors””art that will beautify your street and send a message of unity. Interested? semillacenter@gmail.com Welcome to Semilla benefit “Art for All” on Saturday, May 16 from 5 to 9 pm, at the Center for Changing Lives, 2400 Park Avenue. Live music, food, hands-on art making, a silent auction, youth photography show and more. $20 suggested donation””discount tickets for volunteers.
April 2020 Movie Corner
By HOWARD McQUITTER II oldschoolmovies.wordpress.com howardmcquitter68@gmail.com “Onward” (2020) Animation /Adventure/Action Pixar Pictures3.5 of 5 Pixar never (or almost never) makes an animation that isn”™t heart warming, inspirational, or both. The latest is “Onward”, not on the same level as “Toy Story”(1995), “Toy Story 2” (1999),””UP” (2009), “Inside Out” (2015) and WALLE” (2008); but is still entertaining and warmhearted. Ian (Tom Holland) looks on his bedroom wall to see pictures of his father who passed away while he was a toddler. He misses him dearly and so does his older brother Barley (Chris Pratt). Ian is quite shy and Barley is brass and a bit immature. On Ian”™s 16th birthday, the boys”™mother, Laurel Lightfoot (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), gives a gift to him and to his brother from his father”“a wizard staff that has the [...]
He Has His Own Mind
By MIKE HAZARD and MARTI MALTBY “As you can see, I”™m part Irish American, part African American, and part Native American,” said Vernon. I asked what nation. “My brother says Cherokee.” He thumbed through his cellphone texts looking for a picture of his Irish American great grandfather, Henry O”™Killian. He never found it. We talked. MIKE HAZARD “My father taught me to hunt,” says Vern. “We hunted to eat. Venison, bear, beaver, raccoon, and quail. We lived in southern Illinois, near the Kentucky border. I was a country boy. I”™m ready to go back.” “I was a cook in the military, a biscuit burner. Sister Rose (the founder of Peace House) hired me to cook. I cooked at Peace House for two or three months, and then I got a job as a machinist. Machinist paid more, but I liked cooking more. I cook everything. I learned a lot about cooking from ex-girlfriends. (Laugh.) Italian, Spanish, [...]
