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Phillips Neighborhood history book wins award
Top photograph by alley contributor Paula Williamson/ University of Minnesota Press by BEN HEATH As part of the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards, scholar David Hugill is the recipient of the Minnesota History award for his book Settler Colonial City. Hugill's book, published last year by the University of Minnesota Press is a critical look at some of the social forces in Phillips after WWII. Our present city and our neighborhoods are not neutral places where history is suspended, instead they are founded in settler-colonial relations, where white supremacy and non-white oppression are by design. The author lived and worked in Phillips as he completed his research. Hugill describes the neighborhood of Phillips in terms of “sites of articulation”, meaning places where the interactions between two or more social factors are especially visible. Minneapolis is the Settler Colonial City, and Phillips is where the record is rich in material. This a study of racism and inequity. It [...]
The Batman
Warner Bros. Pictures (2022) ★★★★☆ Movie Corner By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Welcome, again, to the dystopian world of Gotham City where crime is out of control, the mayor is murdered, Batman's nemeses the Penguin (Colin Farrell)and the Riddler (Paul Dano)are loose on the streets, the police officers are overworked and weary. But there's Batman (Robert Pattinson) in the midst of all the chaos, with a surly attitude of his own, bound and determined to solve the murder and see that the misfits are behind bars. Initially, many city officials and high-ranking police officials see Batman as a vigilante, more part of the problem than part of the solution. But wait! There's Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) whois more than glad to work with Batman to find the culprit(s) in the crime waves in Gotham City. (So much of Gotham City is a reflection of the typical American city today.) Director Matt Reeves' version of Batman spends little time with Batman's alter ego Bruce [...]
Movie Corner – Ten best of 2021
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II 1. Summer of Soul (Questlove) 2. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) 3. CODA (Sian Heder) 4. Passing (Rebecca Hall) 5. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) 6. Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) 7. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar) 8. Nine Days (Edson Oda) 9. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts) 10. Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro) Other films of 2021 to see: West Side Story (Steven Spielberg), In the Heights (Jon M. Chu), The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Respect (Liesl Tommy), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter), Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson), Dune (Denis Villeneuve), The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), and Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi). (movie posters are [...]
