Lawrence Michael Levine’s fourth feature,
Black Bear, really messed with my equilibrium. I first saw the film as part of Nightstream, a collaborative virtual horror film festival, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it stirred up something deep in my psyche. The plot unfolds in three distinct strands. One follows a filmmaker and former actress named Allison (Aubrey Plaza) who heads to a wooded retreat to seek inspiration for her next film while navigating the awkward tension of the cabin’s caretakers, Gabe (Christopher Abbott) and Blair (Sarah Gadon). The second departs from almost everything established by the first, picking up on the final day of shooting for a film directed by Gabe and costarring Blair, whose apparent chemistry with Gabe informs Allison’s starring performance at the cost of her sanity. The third strand involves Allison meditating by the lake in a red bathing suit. Feeling disoriented yet? Fear not.
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Santa Anita s popular free online “Showvivor” marks its return on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, with a new Total Win Earnings category and a Monthly Contest provision which will be included in the existing season-long total prize money awarded of $5,000.
With special early first post on opening day pegged at 11 a.m., the contest offers fans a variety of cash incentives, highlighted by the $2,500 top prize, which will be awarded to the longest “Show Streak” over the course of the entire Winter/Spring season which culminates on June 20.
Registration at showvivor.santaanita.com is free and easy and Showvivor participants can select one horse from one race each racing day. That horse must run no worse than third in order for the player to “Showvive.” If the player s selection fails to run 1-2-3, that individual is not totally eliminated, as he or she may start up a new streak the next racing day. The player with the longest “Show Streak” on Ju
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a turning up in even bigger numbers and the tourism industry is rolling out the red carpet especially in the run up to the lunar new year. europeans may have their issues with los angeles but up market visitors from china are increasingly feeling right at home here in the run up to the chinese new year the local tourism industry is leaving no dumpling unturned in a pitch to attract free spending chinese traveling the world on their holiday break chinese new year is a big event it s a big stage in the calendar flora fraught troublous at the lux we look so you off all the facilities that they may want to enjoy that would include things like lucky envelopes with two dollar bills new year macaroons with t.n. dim sum special seasonal gifts and chinese american newspapers. not you mr tour companies have hired chinese hawkers to lure visitors into busses