News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Wednesday March 11th 2026
The Best Films of 2025
from the series Movie Corner…
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
- Sinners – Director: Ryan Coogler
- One Battle After Another – Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Hamnet – Director: Chloe Zhao
- Marty Supreme – Director: Josh Safdie
- *The Dance is Not Over – Director: Mark Wojahn
- *Regretfully at Dawn – Director: Sivaroj Kongsakul
- The Life of Chuck – Director: Mike Flanagan
- Good Boy – Director: Ben Leonberg
- Weapons – Director: Zach Creggar
- Bugonia – Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Suggested Film:
Eddington – Director: Ari Aster
50th Anniversary of Films:
Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Director: Milos Forman
*Appeared in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
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Gallery of Loss and Light: Part 5
By HARVEY WINJE
Part 5 is about the loss of trust and how nominal—in name only—titles of people, positions, and institutions cannot be assumed to be trustworthy; even though sometimes well-intended. Hopefully these episodes and anecdotes can shed light for the community going forward. How can we as individuals pivot from disappointment to opportunity; from strength to strength?
Who Was in the Room?
Decisions about property of Messiah Evangelical Church Congregation, MELCC, were probably made by key leadership members and pastors. Only five such members are briefly described below to help imagine what transpired over decades leading up to the demolition of the 1908 and 1954 buildings.
Mr. Charles O. Johnson
Charles Johnson became a copy boy at age ten, Minneapolis Daily News reporter as a high school student, Minneapolis Star sports editor at 22 years old, and Star and Tribune sports editor after a 1941 merger until retirement in 1968.
He was highly influential in establishing professional sports in Minneapolis. He mentored writers like Halsey Hall and Sid Hartman and took them on trips to persuade wealthy team owners in other states, sometimes flying in the airplane of the owner of the Star Tribune, John Cowles. The Cowles family lived at 2318 Park Avenue in the Tenny Mansion from 1939 until 1983–the last resident of mansions on Park Ave.… Read the rest “Gallery of Loss and Light: Part 5”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
Worst of the Worst?
from the series Raise Your Voice!…
By PETER MOLENAAR
For many residents of the Phillips Neighborhood and surrounding communities, the designation “worst of the worst” is now granted to the masked invaders, who, operating with a quota in mind, were here to dislocate the lives of immigrants… people who have earned our respect, whose children have warmed our hearts for many years!
[However]: for the sake of all the children, we must ask ourselves: were the masked monsters morally deficient upon leaving their mother’s wombs, or had they been dehumanized by their masters?
Lord knows, mace to the face is more than a “whiff of fascism”. Looking ahead, therefore, WE THE PEOPLE are compelled to resist by means of nonviolent demonstrations, general strikes, and presumably the ballot box as well. To which I will add: that whole world is watching!
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