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Open in new tab Neighbors Taken on January 7th
from the series ICE Encounters…
By ANONYMOUS
Our family had a major experience with ICE beginning with the December 2025 surge. We attended information sessions on how to prepare our neighborhood for the violence and terror that happened in other cities, like Chicago, at a local church. We started helping share with neighbors any sightings we had of the heavily armed presence of these masked men in our area. My other sister-in law and her husband and three other families, related to us, that live in South Minneapolis all stopped going to work and church due to the fear and threat created by ICE.
On January 7, 2026, you may remember as the day Renee Good was murdered, we had three people close to us who were abducted. Two of the men were taken in the morning from Menard’s parking lot in Saint Paul, our neighbor and his cousin who lived with him. They lived four houses down from us on our block and we had known them for over 20 years. They had a plumbing business and had helped several neighbors with house repairs. The father of the family had all of his work authorization papers on him, because he had been stopped under the previous Trump administration and was released because he had no prior criminal record and was here “legally.”… Read the rest “Neighbors Taken on January 7th”
Marty Supreme
from the series Movie Corner…
2025
4.5/5 Stars
Drama/Sport/Romance/Thriller/Period Piece
A24
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
Josh Safdie’s film Marty Supreme is about a young man’s feverish passion to be the best ping pong player in the world. Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser (loosely based on the real-life American ping -pong champion, Marty Reisman, in New York City in the 1950s). Mr. Supreme needs to scrounge as much as he can to take a flight to Tokyo for the world championships. However, he gets entangled in some get-rich-quick scams that lead down the path of intrigue and danger before his trip to Tokyo becomes a reality. His love interest, Rachel Mizler, unfortunately gets tied up in the fray.
Safdie picks an excellent subject for a movie. Ping pong is hard to find in filmography except perhaps in a fleeting scene or two or three in Forrest Gump.
It’s not easy to make or memorize the moves on a ping pong table. It is Diego Schaaf and his wife, Wei Wang, an Olympic player, who worked with Chalamet in the summer of 2024. Visually Chalamet and his ping pong opponents are stunning. Moviegoers should watch for Oscar nominations for Timothée Chalamet, Odessa A’zion, and the movie itself.… Read the rest “Marty Supreme”
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