Pass The Remote For December 17-24: Best Documentaries With Bay Area Connections
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As 2020 draws to a close, Pass the Remote revisits some of the standout full-length films that had Bay Area ties. This week, we ll count down some of the best, but by no means all, documentaries. Next week, we ll spotlight narrative features. Crip Camp : Oakland filmmakers James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham s Sundance Film Festival winner is not only inspiring and educational, but it s also lively, funny and even raunchy. Part memoir on an influential, rowdy summer camp for teenagers with disabilities in the Catskills but mostly a chronicle of the disabled-rights movement and its roots in the Bay Area, Crip Camp opens eyes, minds and hearts. It also celebrates the remarkable achievements of the determined leaders in the movement, and how they fought for change. (Available on Netflix)
2020: A Theater of the Absurd for Europeâs Playhouses
The Timesâs theater critics in London, Paris and Berlin reflect on a year of closures, reopenings, restrictions and curfews, in which the show somehow went on.
At the National Theater in London in September. The cityâs theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, then closed a third time.Credit.Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
Matt Wolf, London Theater Critic
Theater of the absurd has nothing on the bizarre scenario endured by Britainâs playhouses during 2020. March 16 was the first of several doomsdays on which the coronavirus pandemic forced them to close their doors, bringing to a halt a theatrical economy worth billions of pounds.
Beverly Barrett
Beverly Ann Barrett, 93, of Roseville, MN passed away on December 11, 2020 with family at her side. Bev was born on November 16, 1927 in Staples, MN to Blanchard (B.C.) and Ethel Barrett. The family lived in Staples until Bev was a sophomore in high school when they moved to Detroit Lakes, MN. Bev was a 1945 graduate of Detroit Lakes High School and then attended Moorhead State Teacher’s College, receiving a degree in Elementary Education. Her 30+ year career as an elementary school teacher had stops in Elbow Lake, MN, Port Angeles, WA, and Jackson, MI before landing in Roseville, MN. Her time with the Roseville School District was spent at Lexington Elementary, McCarron’s Lake Elementary, and lastly at Edgerton Elementary. Bev enjoyed traveling, reading, crossword puzzles, the Minnesota Twins, a dark chocolate mocha from Caribou, her cats Gretchen and Naughty, and spending time with family and friends. Since 2011 Bev resided at Presbyterian Homes Eaglecrest