Ode to Bertram, The Ultimate Newspaperman!
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I never asked Bertram what his real or full name was, but when I got the news Saturday morning that my favorite newspaper vendor had died, my heart simply dropped – meaning, it skipped a beat.
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The bearer of this bad news fellow VOICE columnist Carlton Ishmael knew Bertram was the only vendor I sourced all my newspapers from on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
Perched ever-comfortably every ‘newspaper day’ in his wheelchair outside the entrance to Massey’s Waterfront outlet, he’d have his parcels of all four-weekend papers (VOICE, Star, Mirror and One Caribbean) wrapped and encircled in elastic bands with names appended, monthly clients (like me) simply picking-up our handed parcels on arrival and either engaging him in a brief chat, or simply collecting and moving on like clockwork.
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (about Jim Carrey and his Andy Kaufman portrayal in
Man on the Moon), director and producer Chris Smith has a knack for finding the most watchably weird projects.
Smith s latest,
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, blends narrative- and documentary-style filmmaking. Through dramatic re-creations of phone conversations caught on FBI wiretaps, the film, out March 17 on Netflix, revisits the 2019 bribery story. It challenges the idea that we live in a meritocracy, Smith says. Even in education, which is something that we hold almost sacred in this country.
In the dramatizations, Matthew Modine plays Newport Beach college-admissions counselor Rick Singer, who pled guilty to racketeering and money laundering charges and cooperated with the sting that ensnared parents including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
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Partings and fracturing alliances are the themes in The Ladder . Quick recap: Lieutenant Gore got done in by what we re assuming is a bear, and the Inuit man who seems to have had some measure of influence over an unknown force which lives on the tundra. That was definitely a bad vibe, but any horror and ghost story aficionado knows the real damage comes at the top of this episode.
Rule one of any horror-adjacent scenario is you don t mess with talismans, icons, runes, or creepy little handmade dolls. Invariably, you re either calling down some kind of wrath from The Great Beyond or destroying whatever protection they ve been providing against said wrath from The Great Beyond. Multiply that by treating a body with disdain for local customs and you re sealing your own fate.
Delightful Banjolele Covers of TMBG, Meat Loaf, and More
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One question looms large above all others in the world of music: who invented the banjolele? Some credit the century-old instrument’s creation to the Keech brothers, Alvin and Kelvin. Others assert California’s own John “J.A.” Bolander as the true father of the plucky hybrid. We may never know who truly deserves credit for first melding banjo with ukulele. But whoever its true mastermind, we can forever enjoy the diminutive chordophone’s delightful harmonies. And so do we today, as the banjolele has devoted its energies to the delivery of a particularly jovial cover.
The 25 best documentaries on Netflix right now Gem Seddon
If you re on the lookout for something to keep you engrossed
and keep you up to date on what s going (or has gone) on in the world, look no further than our guide to the best documentaries on Netflix. With everything from High Score, which delves into the video games industry, to Life on Our Planet, a look at humankind and the Earth from the legendary David Attenborough, there’s something for everyone.
For something more intergalactic, check out Mercury 13, about NASA s female astronauts in the 60s, or Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo, a look behind the curtain at the missions all about landing man on the moon – including the ill-fated Apollo 13. If you re missing The Great British Baking Show, try Chef s Table to get your mouth watering. Then there are Netflix s most famous documentaries to check out if you haven t already. The good news is, everything on our list of the best documentari