My heart went out to RowVaugh Wells as she watched the evidence unfold last week against the seven rogue Memphis police officers and three first-responders who are alleged to be responsible for the untimely death of her son Tyre Nichols. A 29-year-old Black man, Nichols died on Jan. 10, three days after a fatal encounter […]
A half dozen candidates, including two current officeholders, paid their filing fees on Wednesday (Jan. 25) for one School Board and two judicial races. Qualifying continues through Friday, Jan. 27. Early voting will take place March 11 to 18. The election will be held on March 25. The recent retirement of long-time Division A Criminal […]
Why are so many New Orleanians and visitors getting shot and even killed recently? The answer is fairly simple. People, especially our young people, are turning to guns to resolve the disputes that used to be handled less dramatically by cooler heads. Over the past few years, retaliatory violence has become as much a part […]
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Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg s buoyant comedy about a school teacher who turns to alcohol to cope with his midlife crisis is very different in tone from Tove Ditlevsen s slim, punchy autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Youth, Dependency about a gifted poet who achieves fame but ends up a drug addict. Yet both are set in Copenhagen and wise to the slippery slope of substance abuse and its nihilistic appeal. Vinterberg finds black humour in tragedy, while Ditlevsen becomes mired in it. There s a plainspoken clarity to her prose that somehow makes the devastating trajectory of her short life hit even harder.
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