

September: Faces Places
"What is it all about?" "The power of imagination." This is the question posed to Agnes Varda by a railway worker about the street artist JR pasting pictures of her wrinkled eyes and toes onto a train. This month we go to the world of French Cinema, documentaries and women in film with one of my favorite movies from last year, Faces Place (2017). While this movie was being made the directors JR and Agnes Varda were 33 and 88 years old respectively. While Varda’s vision is sta


161st and Jersey Part 2: The Red Sox Are Good Enough
And now, the shocking conclusion to 161st and Jersey. Growing up in Connecticut I would go up to the Boston area with my mom every couple of weeks to see my grandmother. I have memories of seeing the Boston newspapers around her condo and later retirement home and the bright colors of Red Sox news must have made an impression on my little brain. I'm not really sure what exactly made me a Red Sox fan, it might have been the old usher that would joke that I could keep my hat on