News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday May 19th 2024
A Ray of Hope
Returning Chapter 9
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL
The older woman walked as fast as she could toward Lake Street. She felt that she was being called further south, and had planned to wait for the light to change. But as she saw the car lights reflect off the mirrors in the huge mural at La Mexicana, a saying came to her mind:
Light is not lost in its reflection
She wasn”™t sure where the saying came from, if she had heard it spoken by someone or read it in a book. Maybe I just made it up, she thought. But it was so clear and strong that she decided to heed it. The light that she saw reflected came from the east, so she turned east. That”™s when she saw Angel and Luz and little Angelito, walking briskly. She could sense the fear in them.
They stopped in front of where the bakery used to be. The phone store was mostly boarded up; it had been looted recently, and the owner was waiting on the insurance. Whatever Luz and Angel were looking for, it didn”™t seem to be there. All they could see was a little broken glass on the floor, and boxes scattered around.… Read the rest “A Ray of Hope”
Nobody
MOVIE CORNER
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
Nobody
Action/Crime/Thriller Universal Pictures
★★★
By Howard McQuitter II
Needless to say, Nobody is that movie where in real time safety is an issue never guaranteed, much less respected in an era of dystopia, reining in all subjects whether they like it or not. Crime is such, whether serious or petty, that doesn’t stop at the sleepy-eyed white suburbs.
Hutch (Bob Odenkirk from TV series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) is a quiet hard-working gentleman with his wife Becca Mansell (Connie Niesen) and children. Perhaps his worst frustration is missing the garbage man every Tuesday.
However one night, while Hutch and his family sleeps, two robbers stage a home invasion. He holds one robber off with a golf club and forces the other to step back before they steal some cash and his daughter’s kitty-cat bracelet. Well, the theft of the kitty-cat bracelet sets him off.
Not long after Hutch’s house invasion, he comes to the rescue of a lone adolescent girl on a city bus from thugs harassing her. Hutch makes the thugs pay in the physical way. What’s unknown to him at the time is one of the baddies he’s punished is the younger brother of Yulian Kuznetsov (Alesksei Serebryakov), a cold-hearted Russian mobster who loves to party.… Read the rest “Nobody”
Random alley news
By LINDSEY FENNER
City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County make Juneteenth an official holiday: They join a growing number of municipalities making June 19, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, an officially observed holiday. Because Juneteenth falls on a Saturday this year, City and County offices will be closed on Friday, June 18 in observation of the holiday.
Check hclib.org and www.minneapolisparks.org for Juneteenth celebrations and events.
Free membership is coming to Quatrefoil Library: Quatrefoil Library, the community center and resource for LGBTQ+ materials at 1220 East Lake Street, is offering free membership starting June 1. Quatrefoil Library has over 30,000 books, thousands of DVDs and movies, podcasts, and countless other pieces of media. The library has been open for curbside service only during the pandemic, but will start offering in-person hours this summer. Visit their website to learn more: www.qlibrary.org.
Emergency Broadband Benefit Program Now Open: The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) is a new federal program designed to reduce internet costs. The program will provide discounted or free internet to many households.
If you qualify, you can receive a discount of up to $50 per month towards your internet service. There are three ways to apply for the program:
- Online at www.GetEmergencyBroadband.org
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