Friday, Nov. 19 It's the weekend before Thanksgiving - and we all still have loads to be thankful for. Come on out tonight and hear Bob Colwell and friends bring you The Band's Last Waltz. Bar opens at 6:30 p.m. Doors for seating open at 7 p.m. for.
Friday, Nov. 19 It's the weekend before Thanksgiving - and we all still have loads to be thankful for. Come on out tonight and hear Bob Colwell and friends bring you The Band's Last Waltz. Bar opens at 6:30 p.m. Doors for seating open at 7 p.m. for.
What s New on Hulu in April 2021
Screenshot: Wild Mountain Thyme/YouTube
There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself right off of this website, never to return. It is called
Wild Mountain Thyme. It is coming to Hulu on April 25, and you should definitely try to watch it without knowing the ending first. Because it is really, really,
really dumb. (Do you know the twist in
Serenity, the one with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway? It’s dumber than that.)
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It might seem like a movie you’d want to watch anyway: It’s written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of
Commentary: Witty and profound, Ferlinghetti s words live on
Robert Seltzer, For the Express-News
March 5, 2021
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was everything a poet should be witty and quirky and profound.
And, oh yes, durable.
The cause was interstitial lung disease, his son told the Associated Press.
“Lawrence probably started hundreds of thousands of people reading his poetry,” poet and essayist Michael McClure told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003. “They read his poetry first and then they went on to read more poetry.”
To appreciate Ferlinghetti, we must appreciate the era from which he sprang. He was part of the Beat Generation, among the greatest outpourings of creativity in American literature. The writers were hip and irreverent, their prose and poetry approximating the freewheeling rhythms of jazz, a style that was casual but disciplined.