News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday March 9th 2025
Green Tomato Cook-Off Results
by Claudia Slovacek
Although it was a smaller turnout for the 10th annual Green Tomato Cook-off, the results of the cooks just keep getting better each year. We added a fourth category this year for dishes made with a MN produce/product and then blended it with the original three categories of sweets, savories and sauces/condiments.
Sue Hunter Weir walked off with $100 as her prize for best of show with her Tomato Feta Pie (little triangles of phyllo hugging a delicious concoction of feta and green tomatoes). Stop by the 12th and 13th Avenue Community Garden sometime at 2727 12th Avenue and maybe Sue will share her recipe.
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The Social Network & Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The Social Network
The Social Network
*****
Columbia Pictures
Running Time: 120 minutes
PG-13
Director: David Fincher.
Hardly a day or two passed after I had seen “The Social Network,” a flash on television announces the 26 year old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is worth 6.9 billion. Jesse Eisenberg plays an Oscar worthy performance as Mark Zuckerberg, the devious Harvard nerd, founder of Facebook (eclipses MySpace) burning and betraying partners along the trail to substantial wealth. Zuckerberg and his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara) are sitting across from each other, each has a beer, in a conversation clearly not on charitable terms leads to Erica breaking up with an unruffled Mark Zuckerberg muttering his own dismissive retort. Immediately, Mark retreats back to his dorm room for a “little” revenge by posting Erica and every Harvard co-ed on the Internet as “Hot chicks.” Simmering over rejection by women and then drinking beer with the fellows,Zuckerberg and a selection of guys create social networking from which Facebook emerges.
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Keep citizen journalism alive!
On The FBI Raids
by Peter Molenaar
The basic facts:
The FBI raided five homes and an anti-war office on September 24, 2010. Federal grand jury subpoenas were handed to nine local activists. The activists include eight women and one man ranging in age from 29 to 71. Four are parents of children ranging in age from 18 months to 6 years of age. One is a great-grandmother. Six are members of labor unions. All have been involved in international solidarity and peace work for many years. They are friends and neighbors to each and every one of us.
So, now they all face jail time for refusing the initial subpoena. Conceivably, the period of incarceration might be extended “indefinitely” in the event the grand jury reconvenes with this in mind. Representative Clark and Senator Berglin have received praise for resolving against this intrusion.
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