Windows on the North Side
By SHELIA BLAND
Cave living
Windows on the North Side
Dim light
Dim vision.
Errant sounds from
Invisible noise makers–
Brick walls, other windows
Block these
Windows on the North side.
Perpetual twilight.
The life-flow
Outside these windows
Passes by
Leaving the cave life
Inside this cave
Like cave drawings –
Perpetual,
Yet, frozen in place.
Shelia Bland lives in Midtown Phillips. She has been writing most of her life to help herself understand the experiences and people in her shared world.
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Celluloid Dreams
2022
Comedy/Drama/Adventure
4/5 stars
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
Luxembourg, Luxembourg is one of the 50 plus films I saw at the 2023 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival at the St. Anthony Main Theater. It is one of those events in the city that brings out many people. This year marks the 42nd year of the largest film festival in Minnesota. The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP Film) was founded in 1962. The late Al Milgrom (died in 2020 at age 98) did the groundwork for this wonderful film festival. Like myself, he was a true cinephile but he was also a director, writer and producer of films.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg starts out with two identical twin brothers Vasya and Kolya (Ramil and Amil Nasirov) as kids playing risky pranks in the train yard to the commentary of voiceover saying such things as, “They say that when a son looks like mother, he is born happy. Even though we are twins, Vasya looks like our mother, I look like my dad.” Fast forward twenty years, the dad is absent from the picture. His abandonment from their lives (no clear reason is given why he left) impacted both brothers, but Kolya is much more interested in his father’s whereabouts than Vasya is.… Read the rest “Movie Corner: Luxembourg, Luxembourg ”
What Purpose Would an Immigration Reform Serve?
By MARCO DÁVILA
Why should the US pass comprehensive immigration reform? Here some reasons:
- Immigrants, apart from paying their respective “fines” and fees to obtain permanent residence or citizenship, would also contribute more resources to the economy of the United States. They would have access to better jobs, would have the opportunity to buy their own home, and many would become professionals and/or entrepreneurs in various areas. As legal workers, they could develop greater skills and make bigger contributions to the economy.
- There would be no need to lock people up in detention centers. Detention centers, in addition to not solving anything, create suffering and disorder and cost millions of dollars in public spending. Unnecessary and unfair deaths during these lockdowns would be avoided.
- Millions of people would avoid suffering the psychological damage of seeing their family members humiliated and locked up, and living in fear of authority at all times. Children and American youth would not suffer the stress of having undocumented fathers or mothers.
- The work environment would improve and workers would have more time for recreational activities. Entry would be expanded to areas of work that are currently off limits for many immigrants, such as the health sector, education, the armed forces, and so on.
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