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Beverly Hills Taxi: Fast Service to LAX with Flexible Rates

GPS-based taxis or any other four-wheeler dispatching is digitally available and facilitates frequent travelers of Beverly Hills to order a yellow taxi or rustic red cab anywhere and at any time. In just 5 to 17 minutes, you or your St. Los Angeles friends can call the Beverly Hills cab drivers on their respective phone numbers. No doubt, such customer support numbers are a better solution to handling the passengers’ needs and expectations city-wise. Availing the modern cab booking services is as easy as scrolling the Android or Apple phone’s screen up and down through the fingertips.

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LITERATURE

House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic (1996)

"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction (2013)

WALKING ALONE TOGETHER: FAMILY MONSTERS IN "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" (2014)

"Some-are like My Own—": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment (2004)

A CIRCUMFERENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON (1973)

TWO WOMEN: THE STUDY OF THE DEATH THEME IN EMILY DICKINSON AND EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1967)

ECCENTRICITIES IN EMILY DICKINSON'S NATURE POETRY (1986)

Presence and Place in Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1984)

The Development of Dickinson's Style (1988)

The Riddles of Emily Dickinson (1978)

Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale (1994)

Forced, Forbidden and Rejected Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2006)

“TWO LEGGED WOMBS”: SURROGACY AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2019)

“I AM A NATURAL RESOURCE”: THE ECONOMY OF COMMODIFICATION IN ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2011)

The Ambiguity of Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2010)

Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque (2010)

IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? — BIBLICAL INTERTEXT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1993)

The Eye as Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk (1978)

The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club" (2007)

Historicizing Japan's Abject Femininity: Reading Women's Bodies in "Nihon ryōiki" (2013)

THEATRE

"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)

"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)

"Service" in King Lear (1958)

In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)

See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)

“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)

"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)

The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)

FILM

Review: Reservoir Dogs (1993)

A Slice of Delirium: Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" Revisited (1995)

Review: Taxi Driver (1976)

TAXI DRIVER (1976)

Docufictions: An Interview with Martin Scorsese on Documentary Film (2007)

AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES (1984)

Anatomy of the "Prick Flick": TAKING THE MEASURE OF MANLY MOVIES (2017)

Films: All the President's Men at the ABC (1976)

Back to the Future: The Humanist "Matrix" (2003)

RE-WRITING "REALITY": READING "THE MATRIX" (2000)

Bringing Love to the Screen (Interview with James Laxton) (2020)

INTERVIEW WITH BARRY JENKINS (2016)

Chasing Fae: "The Watermelon Woman" and Black Lesbian Possibility (2000)

Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977)

Sidney Lumet's Humanism: The Return to the Father in "Twelve Angry Men" (1986)

Intensified Continuity Visual Style in Contemporary American Film (2002)

LOVE AND THEFT (Shoplifters) (2018)

Notes on the Split-Field Diopter (2007)

Positive Images & the Coming out Film: THE ART AND POLITICS OF GAY AND LESBIAN CINEMA (2000)

Rock 'n' Roll Sound Tracks and the Production of Nostalgia (1999)

The Sounds of Silence: Songs in Hollywood Films since the 1960s (2002)

The Godfather Saga (1978)

"Plastics": "The Graduate" as Film and Novel (1985)

The New Wave's American Reception (2010)

OTHER

Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: "Vestiges of Creation," Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain (2001)

Movement, knowledge, emotion: Gay activism and HIV/AIDS in Australia (2011)

On the Trail of the "Witches:" Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts (1987)

"Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power (2010)

Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence (1988)

Feminist Food Studies: A Brief History

A modern day holy anorexia? Religious language in advertising and anorexia nervosa in the West (2003)

Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1985)

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920 (1995)

Women, piety and practice: A study of women and religious practice in Malaysia (2008)

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In the Heights Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda Musical Still Lights Up

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Romance permeates Jon M. Chu’s big screen adaptation of In the Heights, like the aroma of charcoal on a summer day. Perhaps this should be obvious since the central conflict of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical remains its two star-crossed couples working things out at the northern, tip-top peak of Manhattan. Yet that’s not where the movie’s true passion lies; like the source material before it, the In the Heights film’s real ardor is for the neighborhood of Washington Heights itself. How else could a picture so endear you to what is otherwise a cup of bodega coffee?

As a jubilant and kaleidoscopic love letter to the handful of city blocks which run adjacent to the George Washington Bridge, In the Heights bursts with a life and creativity that is often blinding, and always intoxicating. It lives in a postcard Neverland version of the usually overlooked and marginalized sides of New York City, yet that does not make it fanciful. Rather this is a movie head over heels in love with its street corners above 181st Street, and the largely Latinx community which lives there. And if you go into it with an open mind, you’ll fall, too. 

Ostensibly the story of Usnavi de la Vega (Anthony Ramos) and his quest to leave New York City behind in favor of his parents’ Dominican homeland, In the Heights opens after he’s already achieved his dream. He’s older now and recounting to his daughter on a Caribbean beach his memories of a community that is obviously still his real home. For back in the day, he was the young guy who owned the corner’s favorite bodega, and he knew everyone on the block.

There’s Benny (Corey Hawkins), Usnavi’s bestie and an ambitious dispatch caller at the local taxi cab service; Kevin (Jimmy Smits), the overachieving first generation immigrant who owns said taxi service; and Sonny (Gregory Diaz IV),  Usnavi’s teenage cousin who helps out at the store. But perhaps most importantly there’s Vanessa (Melissa Barrera), the aspiring fashion designer who also has plans of getting out of the hood—if only to West 4th Street—and who’s the apple of Usnavi’s eye.

Theirs is just one of the mildly complex romances at the heart of a film, which also focuses on the return of Nina (Leslie Grace), Kevin’s daughter who is home for the summer after her first year at Stanford. She is the golden child to both her father and all of Washington Heights—one of the “good ones” who made it out. It makes telling them all she dropped out that much harder, including Benny. Because, like Usnavi and Vanessa, theirs is an entire history of everything being left unsaid. Each couple, and all the familiar faces in their lives, is about to have a whirlwind summer filled with music, heartbreak, a rolling blackout, and just maybe a winning lottery ticket.

As with many stage-to-screen transfers, Chu’s adaptation of In the Heights struggles at times with its new format. The Broadway’s musical’s creators, Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame and Quiara Alegría Hudes, the latter of whom wrote the book for the show and has here penned the screenplay, are intimately involved in the film. And they’ve made a series of smart, savvy concessions to their new medium. Some songs have been moved around, others have been excised completely, and the wrap-around story with modern day Usnavi in his dream beach bar on a Dominican shoreline attempts to add more narrative structure for a film which is, at heart, a series of musical vignettes.

Still, In the Heights cannot wholly avoid the most familiar obstacles which have tripped up other Hollywood adaptations: the need to maintain as much of the musical material as possible from the show gives the film an occasionally shaggy quality as it meanders its way around every major set piece in its 143-minute running time, and ultimately overstays its welcome with maybe one too many toe-tappers.

With that said, it would take a real curmudgeon to focus on the minor narrative stumbles when there is so much exuberance emanating from Chu’s production and the kinetic ensemble. With its fusion of freestyle rap, salsa rhythms, and other blended Caribbean musical styles, this film erupts with an irresistible vitality every time its ensemble hits the asphalt.

Chu, who before Crazy Rich Asians cut his teeth by directing the best Step Up films, brings a familiar eye for propulsive choreography and joyful movement that made the dance sequences in those films into spectacles greater than most modern action movies. In the Heights is similarly ready to try on almost any creative hat for at least one musical number, such as when Usnavi, Benny, and Sonny break the fourth wall to sketch on the screen their wistful daydreams of what they’d do with a winning lottery ticket, or in the way Vanessa’s song about getting out leaves her entire block covered in the fabric she thinks will carry her off on a downtown train.

In lesser hands, these flourishes could fall into music video glibness, but they’re balanced by an entirely authentic ensemble and a beating heart beneath the razzle dazzle. Ramos particularly seems to be a talent on the make, trading in John Laurens’ blue coat and starched collar from Hamilton for a more laid back and movie star-ready affability. His Usnavi is charmingly big-hearted yet hints at deep waters beneath his calm surface. And, with all respect to Mr. Miranda, Ramos can sing “It Won’t Be Long Now” in a much fuller range.

Barrera’s Vanessa and Grace’s Nina also both have showstopping ballads that are sure to amass each an influx of fans. However, the solo number that lingers best belongs to Olga Merediz, whose Abuela Claudia is the surrogate grandmother to both Usnavi and the neighborhood. On paper, the part could easily be reduced to an archetype, but Merediz’s one major scene where she sings only to herself about a lifetime’s worth of regrets and slights after immigrating to the U.S. from Cuba 70 years ago elevates the films and adds texture to the Latino-American experience that In the Heights so celebrates.

More than its romantic will-they-or-won’t-they rendezvouses, it is the movie’s affection for the ties which bind first, second, and third generation Americans that becomes the picture’s real emotional resonance. The film version of In the Heights also updates that pride and anxiety with a new subplot involving Dreamers—undocumented young people who grew up and lived their entire lives in America—and the dread of being deported from the only home they’ve ever known.

Of course with a gushing heart on its sleeve, In the Heights is still a fairy tale in search of magic, not sorrow. Instead of ice castles or ancient kingdoms, however, its alchemy resides in salons with broken air conditioners and the sugar flavored ice shavings found in a Piragua guy’s cart (which, by the by, provides Miranda with a movie-stealing cameo). I’m not sure if it has the same complexity of music and narrative that propelled Miranda’s Hamilton into a phenomenon twice over, including last year’s Disney+ streaming event. But it won’t really matter to the countless new fans who will surely watch In the Heights on repeat—and hopefully on the biggest screen they can find.

In the Heights opens in theaters and on HBO Max on Friday, June 11.

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How do you know when pap shots aren’t fake and celebrities are actually caught off guard? Do you have any examples?

Hello anon. I’m sorry but I don’t have the time like I used to to answer questions.

In terms of how do you know what’s choreographed pap walks vs organic ones “caught” by hard working stalkers, I can’t tell you for sure but the vast majority - 85 to 90 percent are arranged. It’s not hard to hide if you are a celebrity. If you don’t want your business out there, you keep it to yourself. Look at poor Chadwick Boseman. He was battling advanced colon cancer for 4 years and no one - not a soul knew. Celebrities get married and are pregnant and no one knows until a baby suddenly shows up. No one at the hospitals or doctors offices they must have visited told paps. Or maybe someone did but celeb’s PR people bought those pictures to keep them out of the public’s eye. That’s another way to keep private. It’s totally possible to keep thing quiet if you want it to be.

If you see celebrities being photographed regularly, especially in a massive city like NYC, it’s more likely than not that their PR people arranged for photographers to be there to take their picture. There are so many examples. I remember when Jen was dating Aronofsky and there were pictures of her lugging a big suitcase to the corner to grab a taxi. The multimillionaire who has enough money to sell her penthouse at a $6m loss can’t call a car service? No. The other example is how Taylor Swift was photographed weekly if not daily at her home in NYC and then for a year no one saw her. Did the paps forget where she lived? She spent all her time in London and there are no paps there? No. Also, anytime you see a celebrity getting in and out of a private jet - 100 percent staged. Private charter hangars are not open to the public. You need special permission or about to get on a jet to be there. Photographers will be arrested if they are caught.

I’m sure there are some unplanned pap pics and those are likely ones where the celeb is pissed, covering their face or looking like crap. But even those are staged too. Don’t be fooled by a grocery run. Those pics are “organic” in that no one called but celebs go to a place they know photographers hang out. Whole Foods and Sushi Park in West Hollywood is a favorite of celebs and paps - celebs go there knowing they’ll be photographed. There are plenty of other supermarkets and sushi restaurants in LA they could go to and how about delivery services? Celebs can hide if they want to. They don’t want to. It’s not good for business.

Here’s a post I did once of my favorite faux-OTP:

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Stream Some AFI Top 100 Films Over the Holiday Break

One of the biggest complaints I hear about the AFI Top #100 movies is that they are difficult to find and expensive to rent. This is somewhat true, but it is likely that anybody who has a streaming service of some kind could at least see some of the films. Unfortunately, there is not one centralized place to see all of the films since the AFI website only has some movies available at any time and you have to be a member. More casual viewers might want to see a couple of films from the list or simply have heard good things about a film and want to know where to find them streaming. Here are some of the major streaming services and AFI films ranked films (from the new and old list) that they currently provide. 

Netflix:

West Side Story, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, The Silence of the Lambs, and Tootsie

There is supposed to by more offerings coming to Netflix in the new year, but right now the company seems pretty focused on original content. Most any movie is still available through the mail service, but that is an extra charge on top of the streaming service and it takes a couple of days to get to you. It is not a bad deal for an occasional film that is hard to find, but not so great for finding a movie to stream right now. There does always seem to be 4 or 5 from the AFI list on streaming at any one time, but there is not much variety and it doesn’t often change.

Amazon Prime:

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Stagecoach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, To Kill a Mockingbird, The African Queen, Sunset Blvd., and It’s a Wonderful Life. 

Like Netflix, Amazon seems to be focusing on original content for their streaming services. Almost any movie can be rented through the site, but it will cost a rental or purchase fee. Also, the rental only is for a 24 or 48 hour period. Definitely not the best site for streaming AFI films. 

Hulu:

Goodfellas and The Graduate

Hands down the worst site for finding classic film, this service is much better for binge watching TV and anime. Not a lot of original content, but access to a whole bunch premium channel content for an extra fee on top of the subscription. You can get simple Hulu access for free or very cheap, but there are tons of ads through the programming. Well worth upgrading to Hulu+ to get rid of commercials. 

HBOMax:

Bringing Up Baby, The Searchers, Modern Times, The Wild Bunch, City Lights, The Gold Rush, Network, The Philadelphia Story, Jaws, Taxi Driver, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Kong, North by Northwest, Doctor Zhivago, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Apocalypse Now, Bonnie and Clyde, The Maltese Falcon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane.

The combined movie vaults of HBO and Cinemax collectively contained a huge amount of classic films, making this hands down the best place to stream AFI Top 100 films. The list above does not cover every film available from the new and old list, but the combined vaults cover about half of all the listed films.

YouTube: 

Intolerance, Sunrise: The Song of Two Humans, The General, and The Birth of a Nation.

There are a couple of very old movies that can be found free of charge on YouTube. Most of the movies on the AFI lists can be rented for a small fee or with ads, but some films are so old that they fell out of copyright and have been uploaded to the site. All four films mentioned are silent and can be fascinating examples of the very beginnings of Hollywood movies, but they are also pretty long and can border on being boring. It’s free of charge, though, so it might be worth checking out for curiosity sake.

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Sundance 2020.

“Dude, I hope this gets over 3.5!” Letterboxd rates this year’s Sundance.

Our West Coast editor Dominic Corry returns to Sundance to engage in such essential festival experiences as: judging other people’s cellphone etiquette, pretending not to notice A-listers, coming to rely upon coffee to a dangerous extent, and hastily downing a hot sandwich while standing over the garbage can outside the Park City Fresh Market.

He also watched a whole load of cool films, and spoke with the writing and directing talent behind some of the 2020 festival’s most talked-about premieres: Janicza Bravo (Zola), Eugene Kotlyarenko (Spree), Miranda July (Kajillionaire), Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor) and Jim Cummings (actor and executive producer of Danny Madden's debut Beast Beast).

Zola

“There are more ways to access great storytelling than the ones we’ve been used to.”

Generating much of the buzz ahead of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was Janicza Bravo’s Zola, a film based on the Twitter thread by A'Ziah King that went famously viral in 2015. It concerns two exotic dancers: King herself—who goes by Zola—(played by Taylour Paige) and her new friend Stefani (Riley Keough), who head down to Tampa one weekend accompanied by Stefani’s boyfriend Derrek (played by Cousin Greg himself, Nicholas Braun) and Stefani’s “roommate” (read: pimp, played by Colman Domingo). To say shit gets cray doesn’t quite cover it.

It’s been simplistically, if understandably, described ahead of time as “Pulp Fiction meets Spring Breakers”, but Bravo herself cited a much more eclectic selection of cinematic inspirations when we spoke to her ahead of the film’s world premiere.

“My inspirations were The Wiz, Coffy, Paris Is Burning, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Special Victims Unit. And Natural Born Killers!”

Bravo (pictured above) took to King’s Twitter thread immediately when it went viral. “I think I found it within a day, or days, of it coming out,” says Bravo. “It was sent to me by a group of girlfriends and before finishing it I knew that I wanted it, and I worked at getting [the rights] for about two years.”

Bravo wasn’t the only one who wanted to tell this story on the big screen—James Franco was initially linked to an adaptation.

“It’s not that it was difficult to get the rights, it’s that there were many other people who wanted it and the people who got it before me were just fancier. But here we are.”

Bravo is credited with Zola's script alongside playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who recently blew up Broadway with his incendiary show Slave Play. She concedes there were unique challenges in translating something so specific to the big screen.

“The thing that everyone was attracted to about this story was the voice, and I would say the hardest thing was to make sure the voice was still present in the film. What you’re reading, that it would translate into the visual.”

Bravo says she’s not sure if this is going to lead to a rash of social network-based films (Letterboxd: The Movie excepted of course), “but I would say that what the story tells you is that there are more ways to access great storytelling than the ones we’ve been used to.”

Spree

“Put it on lists and do those Letterboxd battles!”

It can be all too easy to over-perceive mini-trends at film festivals, but it was hard to overlook the large role that social media played in multiple films at Sundance this year.

In Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Spree, floppy-haired Stranger Things star Joe Keery (pictured above) plays wannabe influencer Kurt Kunkle, a driver for a Los Angeles-based ride-sharing service (called… Spree) who plots to up his subscriber numbers by murdering his more obnoxious passengers on a live stream. Or he might just be staging it all for the LOLs. The entire film plays out as a series of live-streaming videos, mostly from the dashboard cameras in Kurt’s car.

Kotlyarenko’s film questions the overly prominent role of social media in modern life. “We've all kind of signed on to this thing, to use the literal expression,” he told us. “It’s part of the way we understand ourselves and our relationship with the rest of the world. It’s basically: a like or repost or a good rating on something, gives us part of our validation or sense of self and that is a kind of twisted place to be. [Spree] is a provocation, it’s a challenge, it’s a way of saying: look, we have a problem.”

Kotlyarenko had a number of inspirations in mind while he was writing and directing Spree. “A lot! A lot of movies! I actually put ten movies in a Dropbox for the cast and crew. One movie that I thought was really inspiring was Jafar Panafi’s Taxi, also known as Taxi Tehran. You want Man Bites Dog in there, because the whole thing is that the movie’s a live stream, right? So how do you do that pseudo-doc thing but now? So you’re following a psychotic character and you’re getting very close to them. Uncomfortably close. What else? Network and To Die For, just hardcore media satires. There’s a bunch of other films, like Coming Apart, do you know this film? It’s a late ’60s movie starring Rip Torn, where he’s a psychiatrist and he sets up these hidden cameras and exploits all his patients and stuff but they don’t know that they’re on camera.”

It turns out Kotlyarenko is a keen Letterboxd member, and he’s looking forward to other members generating an average rating for his film. “Dude, I hope this gets over 3.5!”

We can safely assume Kotlyarenko won’t employ measures as drastic as those adopted by the main character in his movie in order to get his desired rating.

“I want people on Letterboxd to watch the film and rate it whatever the fuck you think it is [worth]. And, you know, put it on lists and do those Letterboxd battles. Put it up against, you know, some Gasper Noé movie. And let it win!”

Kajillionaire

“Instead of sort of half-arseing two jobs, you’re doing one job really well.”

Filmmaker, actor and performance artist Miranda July is a central figure in the American independent cinema scene, even though she’s only directed two films: Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future. Her third full-length feature Kajillionaire had its world premiere at Sundance this year, just as her previous works did, but the big difference this time around is that she stuck to writing and directing, having also played the lead role in her two previous films.

“It’s just better,” she told Letterboxd of staying behind the camera for Kajillionaire. “Instead of sort of half-arseing two jobs, you’re doing one job really well, you know? You get a lot of energy when you’re performing—that’s nice. Especially initially to kind of set the tone, that was super helpful, starting out. But now it’s like: these people all knew my work. So I didn’t have to actually be in it for them to like, get it. Which is, you know, what a dream right?”

Kajillionaire is a typically (for July) offbeat tale of a Los Angeles family who attempt low-level scams to raise money to pay the rent on the disused office space with oozing walls in which they live. The family (comprised of mom Debra Winger, dad Richard Jenkins and daughter Evan Rachel Wood) find their equilibrium challenged when an optimistic young woman (Gina Rodriguez) eagerly joins them for their latest “heist”.

Miranda July. / Photo courtesy of the Sundance Institute

Letterboxd asked July if she thinks there’s a common narrative thread running through all three of her films.

“I mean, I see the thread, but it’s really just me living my life. Not that it’s autobiographical at all. But now I was ready to face issues and tell a story that only could be told by someone who had been a child, grown into an adult, and then been a parent of a child and had this 360-degree perspective. And also I think there’s a joyfulness that only comes in once you’re like: I know a little bit how to do this, you know? Like, maybe there’s some fun that I had, as well as breaking my heart 100 times.”

Although Kajillionaire would seem to speak to general economic anxiety, July said that wasn’t necessarily the point of the film.

“All I’ll say about that right now is: I wrote it in this time and the whole thing comes from my unconscious. But I am the child of boomers and, you know, living in the same world you’re living in. The sense that something criminal might have happened is in the air, but I wasn’t consciously [thinking]: ‘I’m going to hit them hard with this political satire’. It’s not that movie. But I don’t think anyone would be wrong to find that in it.”

Beast Beast

“It allows you to circumvent all of the bullshit that is Hollywood.”

We met up with one of our favorite filmmakers (and Letterboxd member), Jim Cummings, who wrote, directed and starred in the 2018 low-key masterpiece Thunder Road, an expansion of a 13-minute short that won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2016.

Cummings was at the 2020 festival as both an executive producer and supporting cast member in a film in the NEXT program (which highlights emerging filmmakers) called Beast Beast. It’s the first feature from writer/director Danny Madden.

“Danny was my co-producer and creative director on many of my short films, the Thunder Road feature, and my new upcoming werewolf movie. So it’s great to be here for his first Sundance feature.”

Cummings, who also runs The Short to Feature Lab in Malibu, understands more than most how shorts can be a pathway to feature filmmaking.

“It’s just so much more fulfilling to make something as a proven concept. You kind of become your own studio in a way that’s incredibly fulfilling. I think it’s the future. You can afford to make something over a weekend with your friends in the backyard that’s a short film and then you can use that and use Kickstarter or a crowd-equity plan campaign to raise the rest of the money for a feature. It’s absolutely the future and it allows you to circumvent all of the bullshit that is Hollywood.”

Jim Cummings and Danny Madden. / Photo by Jovelle Tamayo, courtesy of the Sundance Institute

Hang on, did you say new upcoming werewolf film? Thunder Road fans can look forward to beholding Cumming’ follow-up feature soon.

“I shot a werewolf movie in Coalville, Utah last March. I spent four months out here. I wrote it, I directed in and I star in it, and it’s a proper monster movie. It’s like a proper werewolf comedy. It’s like Thunder Road with a werewolf. Or Zodiac as a comedy. That’s coming out in theaters in September.”

And because this is Jim Cummings we’re talking to, there’s more: “I ran a crowd-equity campaign for a movie that we made about talent agents that I can’t really talk too much about, but it’s very good and it’s a horror movie that we shot in November. That should be coming out around the same time.”

Possessor

“It has a lot to do with character psychology, without giving too much away.”

Following the world premiere of his new film Possessor, Letterboxd sat down with second-generation filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, the son of legendary director David. The younger Cronenberg’s second feature (following 2012’s Antiviral) had Sundance audiences audibly wincing at the extreme body horror on display in the sci-fi thriller, which stars Andrea Riseborough as an assassin who forcibly inhabits the minds of others to perform her incredibly violent executions.

We asked Cronenberg how he feels about the term “body horror” (a sub-genre often associated with his father’s work) being applied to his film.

“I guess it depends how you define body horror,” says Cronenberg. “There are violent scenes in the film and I guess that fits into a certain aspect of body horror, but it isn’t really what I would necessarily describe as body horror. There’s a small amount of story stuff that I feel is legitimately a part of that genre, but it’s not [the] prime aspect of the story.”

Cronenberg confirmed that on-screen viscerality appeals to him in general as a filmmaker: “I think especially in genre, although it can be incredibly conceptual. It’s partly defined by deep visceral emotions, not always because of graphic violence or gore. Sometimes it can be a film primarily about dread or anxiety that I would still consider to be a horror film, and a lot of classic ghost films for instance are not graphic but are visceral and in that emotional sense.”

Actors Christopher Abbott and Andrea Riseborough with director Brandon Cronenberg. / Photo courtesy of the Sundance Institute

The violence in Possessor may have had audience members covering their eyes in Park City, but Cronenberg told us there was a point to all the grue.

“It wasn’t just there to be intense or to provoke people. It has a lot to do with character psychology, without giving too much away. The way it’s depicted and the various approaches that are taken in different scenes, very much relate to the main character, her relationship with violence, her own internal space and also where the audience is situated from a kind of more objective or more subjective position.”

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a happier 2019 wrap-up

every year for new year’s, my mom gets everyone one-a-day calendars tailored to their interests. for 2020, she got me a calendar of funny/stupid answers people have written on tests. 

but for 2019, she gave me a calendar with a different trivia question every day. i had two rules for this calendar: 1) i had to write down an answer for each question, even if what i wrote down was the dumbest shit in the world, and 2) i wasn’t allowed to look at the answer until the day after. 

i saved up all of the ones that i got right bc i like to quantify things, so if nothing else, i know 93 things—

january 18: many musicians have recorded and performed the song “hallelujah.” who wrote it?

january 29: thurl ravenscroft was an accomplished voice actor who sang “you’re a mean one, mr. grinch.” however, ravenscroft was best known for voicing which TV commercial icon?

february 7: who was the first african american appointed to the US supreme court?

february 12: mount rushmore features the giant carved faces of george washington, abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson, and which other US president? 

february 13: what is ninjitsu? 

february 26: mae c. jemison went into space in 1992 aboard the endeavor, earning her what distinction?

february 27: who wrote and first recorded the song “big yellow taxi”?

march 2: what is the longest running show in broadway history?

march 5: what is the largest library in the world?

march 8: what two novels did the lesser-known brontë sister, anne, write?

march 12: which reptile can breathe through its rear end?

march 16: the winner of best picture at the 2017 oscars was moonlight—but, in an historic mix-up, the announcers initially declared which other nominee to be the winner?

march 21: which is the smallest planet in our solar system?

march 22: why is a pound cake called a pound cake? 

march 23: the hit musical wicked is based on a 1995 novel by which author?

march 24: billy eichner, comedian and host of billy on the street, once had a role on which beloved NBC sitcom?

march 27: name the star who plays offred in the hulu series the handmaid’s tale?

april 6: the 2015 song “fourfiveseconds” was a collaboration between rihanna, kanye west, and which other legendary musician?

april 8: why do apples turn brown when sliced?

april 16: what is a pooh-bah?

april 19: what is the belgian town of duffel’s claim to fame?

april 29: what ancient babylonian king created a compendium of 282 laws to guide society in 18th century BCE?

may 2: what is the name for the condition in which a dog’s feet smell like corn chips? 

may 5: in mary shelley’s frankenstein, which character is named frankenstein?

may 7: name the australian pop star whose debut studio album blue neighborhood included hits “youth” and “wild”.

may 10: which superhero did british actor benedict cumberbatch play in a 2016 film?

may 16: which american film tradition began this day in 1929?

may 17: in science, what does “triple point” refer to?

may 26: what function do cats’ whiskers serve?

may 27: where is the tomb of the unknown soldier located?

june 1: which cult classic film popularized the red swingline stapler? 

june 3: who is barbie (the doll) named after? 

june 4: eid al-fitr is an annual muslim festival that marks the end of what?

june 10: which actor was offered a role on the o.c. but turned it down for a role on one tree hill?

june 11: the sport that americans call soccer is known as football in many other countries. where did the term “soccer” originate?

june 17: there is a species of horsefly known as bootylicious. which celebrity inspired the nickname?

june 18: the amc series the walking dead is based on a series of comic books penned by which accomplished writer?

june 24: which actress played wonder woman in the 2017 film of the same name?

june 27: what makes chili peppers hot? 

june 28: which architectural engineering feat allowed the ancient incans to cross canyons and rivers with ease?

june 29: the word “scuba” is an acronym. what does it stand for? 

july 3: who is the bestselling fiction writer ever? 

july 5: which animated film was the first to be nominated for best picture at the oscars? 

july 9: which item did women living in the dust bowl during the great depression commonly fashion into clothing? 

july 16: in nintendo’s mario video games, the nefarious wario is mario’s foil. who is luigi’s foil and archrival? 

july 18: pop stars taylor swift and zayn malik teamed up to record the song “i don’t want to live forever” for which 2017 film soundtrack? 

july 22: which is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table? 

july 23: which novel is considered frank herbert’s masterpiece? 

july 25: name the three women who were cast in the first season of SNL in 1975. 

july 26: during which years did the olympics award official medals for the arts, including painting, architecture, sculpture, music, and literature?

july 28: what are the ingredients of a moscow mule?

august 2: which “luxury” music festival was supposed to take place in the bahamas in april 2017 but dissolved into chaos and was eventually canceled after attendees began to arrive?

august 3: what is the claim to fame of anchor bar in buffalo, NY? 

august 8: the la brea tar pits are a popular tourist attraction and fossil excavation site. what does “la brea” mean in spanish? 

august 9: the popular board game clue goes by which other name in the UK, where it was invented?

august 11: what is earth’s largest ocean? 

august 12: who wrote johnny cash’s “a boy named sue”?

august 13: what were the original 3 pokemon that players could choose from at the start of pokemon red and pokemon blue, the first pokemon video games released internationally?

august 14: what kind of music did katy perry release as a teenager before she became a pop star? 

august 20: philip k. dick’s novel do androids dream of electric sheep? inspired which 1982 film with a different title?

august 30: batman is to gotham city as superman is to what? 

september 6: what is the hottest planet in the solar system? 

september 9: the first book of the “his dark materials” trilogy is known as the golden compass in the US, and what in the UK? 

september 15: one of the classic monopoly player tokens is a dog. what breed is it?

september 16: why are spiders technically not considered insects?

september 22: on her debut album, lily allen included a song called “alfie” about her little brother. alfie allen is best known now for his role on which TV show?

october 2: a killer whale isn’t technically a whale. what is it?

october 8: name the breed of large domestic cats native to new england 

october 10: which company uses the slogan “because we’re worth it”?

october 12: which female pop star had a brief stint in an R&B group called basic instinct in the 1990s?

october 16: if you ordered a berliner in a cafe in wisconsin, what would they serve you?

october 21: in 1943, when many NFL players were drafted for service in WWII, which two teams combined forces and formed a team called the steagles?

october 25: virginia was the birthplace of 8 US presidents. which state follows close on virginia’s heels as the birthplace of 7 US presidents?

october 28: bram stoker’s legendary vampire dracula is widely thought to be inspired by which real-life romanian prince?

october 30: in european folklore, what is a familiar? 

november 1: what does nanowrimo stand for?

november 13: name the movie that imagines how playwright j.m. barrie came to write peter pan.

november 14: which US state has the smallest population?

november 16: who technically owns all of the unmarked swans in england?

november 19: which entertainment icon was offered the role of phoebe in friends but turned it down?

november 22: robert louis stevenson’s novel treasure island features a cast of colorful characters, including the infamous long john silver. what is the name of the novel’s young protagonist, an innkeeper’s son who ends up serving as a cabin boy on a sea adventure?

november 23: where is dollywood?

november 28: not surprisingly, americans eat more food on thanksgiving than they do on any other day of the year. which day boasts the second-highest food consumption?

november 29: “swish swish”, a song on katy perry’s 2017 album witness, was rumored to be a diss track about which other pop star?

november 30: which actor wore a hairpiece every time he played james bond?

december 2: in greek mythology, perspehone was the goddess of the underworld and the wife of hades. who were persephone’s parents?

december 3: which prominent magazine declined to run an excerpt of the catcher in the rye on the grounds that the characters were unbelievable and the writing was “show-offy”? 

december 12: which comic book series featured batman’s first appearance? 

december 14: what was elvis presley’s natural hair color?

december 21: a 16th century da Vinci manuscript known as the codex leicester sold for over $30 million. who was the wealthy buyer?

december 23: ancient egyptian queen cleopatra had relationships with both julius caesar and mark antony. which of the two men was she buried next to?

december 27: which of the following hollywood stars did not get their start on the disney channel—shia labeouf, hayden panettiere, keri russell, ellen page, ryan gosling

december 29: technically, peanuts aren’t nuts. what are they?

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Week Ahead In The News

Richard Hillgrove Founder of 6 Hillgrove PR takes a look at the week ahead.

News diary 9-15 March:

Chinese firm Jingye Group’s acquisition of British Steel is expected to complete on Monday in a deal that could save thousands of steelmaking jobs in the north of England. Jingye has committed to investing £1.2bn at its new sites in Scunthorpe and Teesside, and the deal marks a significant boost for an industry that has been hit hard in recent years by plant closures and the US-led tariff wars.

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is due to go on trial at Edinburgh’s High Court after being charged with multiple sex offences. Salmond faces a total of 14 counts including attempted rape and sexual assault, with all offences alleged to have taken place over a six-year period during his time in office. Salmond denied the charges during a preliminary hearing in November and the trial is expected to wrap up in the first week of April.

A royal reunion takes place at Westminster Abbey when the departing Duke and Duchess of Sussex join The Queen and family at the annual Commonwealth Service. The event, expected to be the couple’s final public engagement as senior royals, features an address from boxer Anthony Joshua and performances from Rewind hitmaker Craig David and X Factor winner Alexandra Burke.

Former House of Commons speaker John Bercow delivers a keynote speech on Tuesday at a conference to discuss Parliament and Brexit hosted by UK in a Changing Europe. The speech follows the release of Bercow’s autobiography Unspeakable, which details the thinking behind the controversial adjudications he made as Speaker during Parliament’s debates and votes on Brexit.

Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Washington and North Dakota hold primaries to choose their state’s Democratic presidential nominee. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders fell into second place following Joe Biden’s surprise resurgence on Super Tuesday; this week’s contests will see whether the former Vice President can sustain his newfound “joementum”.

Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren have both dropped out following a series of disappointing performances, making it now a two-man race to the convention.

On Wednesday, Rishi Sunak presents his first Budget just 27 days after replacing Sajid Javid as Chancellor with a less-than-ringing endorsement from his former boss.]

Sunak’s task of delivering on Conservative manifesto pledges within existing fiscal rules, which the influential IFS think tank has suggested would be impossible without tax rises, has been illustrated in recent days by a row over fuel duty. Some of the more difficult choices may therefore be saved for later in the year, with this Budget expected to be the first in a trio of fiscal events for the Chancellor.

Alongside the Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility publishes a forecast for the UK’s public finances which was delayed from last year by Boris Johnson’s decision to hold an election. The forecast is likely to repeat last year’s notes of caution around weak growth and Brexit-related uncertainty, and may also factor in the potential impact of a global coronavirus outbreak, all of which could leave the Chancellor with little wriggle room in future fiscal statements. To comply with its statutory requirement to produce two forecasts each year, the OBR also releases a second, updated forecast on Friday in something of a double swansong for the departing Robert Chote.

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein faces up to 25 years in prison at his sentencing in New York, after being found guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act at the conclusion of a lengthy trial last month. The hearing won’t mark the end of the Weinstein saga: he reportedly plans to appeal the conviction, despite being found not guilty of the more severe charges brought against him, and he also faces multiple sexual assault charges in Los Angeles.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse publishes its report on the nature and extent of the use of the internet to facilitate abuse on Thursday.

Tech giants including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google all gave evidence to the inquiry in secret as part of its internet investigation strand, amid concerns that public evidence could help offenders evade detection as well as criticism over the platforms’ abilities to protect children.

In Parliament, members of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee grill outgoing BBC director-general Tony Hall (pictured) and chairman David Clementi at an evidence session on the licence fee. The executives are expected to face questions about Hall’s decision to step down early, the planned overhaul of the BBC’s workforce and changes to the licence fee payments for over-75s, as well as the corporation’s recent equal pay tribunals. A Government consultation into decriminalising the non-payment of the licence fee is ongoing.

The European Central Bank’s monetary policy committee meets in Frankfurt, with speculation rife that the ECB will follow the US Federal Reserve’s lead from last week and announce measures to counteract the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak in the eurozone. ECB President Christine Lagarde has signalled potential actions, and the issue is sure to be addressed at her post-meeting press conference.

Friday sees the publication of findings from Northern Ireland’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) inquiry. The inquiry was established by the Northern Ireland Executive in January 2017 and investigated its design, governance, implementation, and operation. Furore surrounding the scheme’s management prompted the resignation that same month of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and the subsequent collapse of the Stormont government, which wasn’t restored until this January, ultimately allowing both abortion and same-sex marriage to be decriminalised in the country.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch publishes a final report into the January 2019 plane crash that killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson. A preliminary report last year found that Ibbotson was not licensed to carry paying passengers, sparking calls for a clampdown on celebrities using so-called “grey” charter flights as unlicensed air taxis.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson speaks at the party’s Spring Conference on Saturday. The conference is the first major gathering of members since the Lib Dems’ heavy defeat in the December election, and follows the resignation of former leader Lord Steel following the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s accusation that he had “turned a blind eye” to accusations of child abuse against late MP Cyril Smith in the 1970s.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is, at time of writing, scheduled to speak at the South by South West Festival, where she is likely to address the Democratic presidential primary. SXSW organisers are insisting the festival will go ahead, despite several high-profile tech and media companies – including Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Netflix – withdrawing from the event, and an online petition to have it cancelled over concerns about the spread of coronavirus.

French voters go to the polls on Sunday for the first round of municipal and mayoral elections, despite government efforts to limit large gatherings in another attempt at coronavirus containment. President Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party is steeling itself for disappointing results, after the government pushed through controversial pension reforms despite widespread protests. The party’s hopes of taking the powerful Paris mayoralty from incumbent Socialist Anne Hidalgo were dented when they had to replace their candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, over a sex scandal a month before the vote.

The 2020 Formula One season gets underway as Melbourne hosts the Australian Grand Prix. The new season could see Lewis Hamilton draw level with Michael Schumacher’s seven world championship wins, but, as with most current events, faces disruption from the coronavirus outbreak. The Chinese Grand Prix scheduled for April has already been postponed and there are growing concerns that races in Vietnam, Italy, and Bahrain could follow suit. Organisers are determined for the Australian GP to go ahead, despite concerns over whether travel restrictions could end up blocking Ferrari’s team from entering the country.

This information is provided in association with Foresight News.

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Benefit from the calm lifetime of Broward County With This Must See Places

Broward County, Florida, is the most effective destinations to relax and luxuriate in recreational activities. In case you are skeptical, be the map: beyond just the west you’ll find the storied Everglades, the biggest tropical wilderness within the U.S.; much better east, you’ll see beautiful Florida beaches like Fort Lauderdale’s, Hollywood’s or Pompano’s; and south you’ll wedding ceremony splendorous Miami.

But the map isn’t if your goal is to tell you the finest things to give time when using the family, that’s why we gather for you the next range of Must Go Ideas to benefit from the calm life of Broward County. Search to your current whole family and bear in mind for years to come vacation in Florida.

Fort Lauderdale Beach

While nature procides you with breathtaking views swapped Atlantic Ocean, a big selection of outlets, restaurants, hotels, sidewalk cafes and entertainment venues are guarding the greater than 7 miles of clean blue waves irregardless of Fort Lauderdale Beach. And, if you are feeling adventurous enough, participate in a plenty of activities from boating, windsurfing, jet skiing and volleyball to snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing and rollerblading.

Flamingo Gardens

Of course, Broward County has plenty of green areas for everyone. End up being proximity to the storied Everglades, Flamingo Gardens this may be a 60-acre Botanical Garden and Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary that may amaze every local and tourist regardless of their age. Over 3000 species of rare & exotic, native plants and trees definitely is in the botanic area; because of the wildlife sanctuary is proud of the most important multitude of Florida native wildlife including alligators, eagles, otters, panthers, and of course, flamingos.

Pompano Beach

Titled “The Center of the Golden Coast”, Pompano Beach of course has warm waters and sandy beaches but also many attractions that tourists and residents would see equally. Town is well known for its excellent boating and fishing, togerher with its offshore living coral reef available with scuba divers and snorkelers. Although, if a calming and chilling afternoon is the things you’re on the lookout for, discover new places by applying the Water Taxi.

Sawgrass Mills

One in all the largest outlet shopping malls within the United States with more than 329 retail outlets and brand discounters at knockout prices and an outdoor restaurant area. Located just 30 minutes elude Miami International Airport, Sawgrass Mill has something for your chosen tastes: beauty products, electronics, fashion, sports equipment, home accessories, and more. Recommended for getting gifts and relax in this space with air-conditioned.

Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts

An impressive combination of European ceramics and glass art awaits for you situated on the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts. Whether or not aren’t a very “artsy” person you could possibly get the sweetness and extravaganza of the varied exhibitions. Be sure you book a tour guide and have time to appreciate all galleries.

Las Olas Boulevard

Meaning “The Waves” in Spanish, Las Olas Boulevard is the preferred thoroughfare that every resident values and every tourist should visit. Running from Andrews Avenue to A1A and Fort Lauderdale Beach, in Las Olas you’ll find lots of these eateries, art galleries, boutiques, cafes, and nightclubs. Even though you just wonder if walking, Las Olas it may be street with architectural and historic value, quality your time.

Hollywood Beach

Located just 18 miles from Miami, Hollywood Beach is a convenient area for a southern Florida vacation. For walkers or bikers, the award-winning Hollywood Beach Broadwalk makes an ideal promenade, with 2.2 miles of brick-paved thoroughfare freshly-picked and relaxing beach scenarios. Of course, there’s loads of luxury hotels to have, and yow will discover the Hollywood Beach Theatre, a children’s water playground at Charnow Park, and many other attractions.

Bonnet House Museum and Garden

What better technique to study history than are some of a historical Florida house? The Bonnet Home is a non-profit museum and garden with splendid trained guides, art exhibitions, and delightful natural landscapes. A place that may magically transport you to the beginning of the twenties and let you know the storyline of past Florida, a captivating and growing state.

C.B. Smith Park

The proper spot for spending twenty four hours or so considering the family. This 299-acres park has everything: RV sites with electricity and water; picnic tables, playgrounds for youngsters, racquetball courts, batting cages, even a party of miniature golf. From the lake, you’ll look for the Paradise Cove water park. C.B. Smith Park also offers rental shelters and one-air amphitheater.

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Future Imperfect - On Capitalism, Technology and Ideology

Looking out from the 31st floor balcony, it doesn’t seem high until you look down. Shenzhen stretches 80 kilometres east to west, but is only 10 deep, North-South. The city snakes laterally, littorally, between the hills of the Hong Kong border, along  Shenzhen Bay to the Pearl River delta, like a badly kept concrete lawn, with clumps of seventy and eighty story towers sprouting like steel weeds. The 115 story Ping An Tower, the worlds 4th largest, the town’s own tall poppy. When night falls, the entire town lights up like a circuit board, streaming with steel and light. The immaculately kept, perpetually swept, cycle path along the Dasha river is filled with office workers on dockless rental bikes, hired by the half hour, headed to one of the city’s many tech clusters, downstream, deeper into Nanshan district. They’ve phased out almost all the old taxis, replaced with a fully electric fleet. The same for the buses. Pretty much every transaction, from street-corner noodles to legal fees are carried out with QR codes and digital wallets. Cashless, silent, sleek.

This is not ‘The Future’, but it is ‘A Future’. Two days a week I commute from Shenzhen to Hong Kong. The journey takes around an hour and a half, but the time travelled is greater than the distance covered. After getting stamped out of Mainland China and into Hong Kong at the vast Shenzhen Bay checkpoint, coaches and cars spiral up onto the five-and-a-half-kilometre bay bridge to cross over to the New Territories. As we roll up the overpass onto the bridge, the plaiting of concrete weaves carriageways from right-to-left and left-to-right. The first sign that they do things differently here. At least for now.

Hong Kong, like Tokyo, represents a certain obsolete near-future in the collective imagination. Having had its image and form repeatedly appropriated by Hollywood as a stand-in for numerous dystopias, the familiarity can make it seem almost underwhelming. Hong Kong looks exactly like ‘Hong Kong’ - a trait it shares with New York. It also feels like yesterday’s vision of tomorrow. The stuttering neon signs and diesel-streaked streets, PoMo towers and marble-lined lobbies are a particularly sharp contrast with Shenzhen’s unironic modernity. From its peak in 1993, Hong Kong has declined from twenty-seven to less than three percent of China’s GDP. But beyond the numbers, it feels like a city in decline. Slowly, megaprojects such as the Hong Kong-Macao-Zhuhai bridge and the China High-speed Rail Link are stitching the territory together with the mainland, bringing Hong Kong’s greatest fear ever-closer, becoming just another mid-sized Chinese city. With the perceived erosion of its Rule of law, the Special Administrative Region has become a contested space. The acute confrontation over the ‘two systems’ principle, is also representative of a bigger conflict between two ideas. Two visions of what the future could be.

Words can be problematic; they are both the obstacle to articulating a thought and the best way to try. This clash of ideas, in which Hong Kong is just one front, isn’t easily reduced to opposing pairs as the Cold War once was. Capitalism’s ‘victory’ over Communism was always an artificial, lexigraphic binary that pitted an economic system against a total political, social and economic order. ‘Capitalism’ is synecdochic, an easy shorthand for ‘democratic capitalism’ and the free and limited, markets, open societies and shared small-L liberal consensus regarding the primacy of the individual. Democratic Capitalism is Limited Capitalism. And it was ‘Limited Capitalism’ that ‘won’. The front line crossed by the arcing span of the Shenzhen Bay Bridge is not the battle between capitalism and communism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is Capitalism unencumbered by Democracy. It is the front  line between Total and Limited Capitalism.

Limited Capitalism was never an outright winner, but in its rhetoric, it strived to achieve the illusion of permanence. The rights of the individual – the societal sidekick to the economic superhero - has never been inevitable and maybe not even natural. Increasingly this relic of our post-Enlightenment experiments feels like a humanistic blip. In the face of Brexit and Trump, Bolsanaro and Orban, I have found myself increasingly having to defend the ‘pragmatism of the primacy of the individual’ to friends not just in Singapore and Shanghai, but Boston and Berlin. Yes, it is the freedom to screw up, but it is also the freedom not to be screwed with.

When measured in terms of human development Limited Capitalism has been a great success. But ‘Capitalist Democracy’ is a productive tension, not a synonymic pair. Capitalism privileges results, Democracy, the process. One is fast, the other is slow. The market is majoritarian, while the democratic enshrines the individual, not merely responsible to a simple majority. This makes elections, perversely, the least important aspect of a democracy. Limited Capitalism is an uneasy hybrid. You are free to consume, you are free to participate, but the between the two there is no equivalence. The human flourishing this has propagated cannot be measured by statistics alone. It is this tension that universalised the franchise, enshrined judicial independent and – aspirationally -declared Universal Human Rights. Less tangibly and more significantly it gives each of us a hope of genuine human dignity and all of us some faith in a societal-level trust. Maybe it was easier to win hearts and minds in the late 20th century with Right to Buy than the Rights of Man, but failing to promote the civil alongside the economic conflates consumption with participation, creating the opportunity for Total Capitalism.

-- Shenzhen’s subway tunnels are lined with motion-synced LED screens that animate adverts outside the carriage windows selling pizza and pet food station to station. My connected TV won’t switch on without first showing me a short film promoting the latest toilet paper or plastic surgery procedure. Pop-up ads and promotions are a pervasive part of every single product or service, physical or virtual that I use. Upsell, cross-sell, resell. The imperative to consume is everywhere, the Chinese Dream constantly reinforced as the route to individualisation and self-actualisation. Judged by the old Communist clichés of a “decadent West,” focussed on temerarious consumption, contemporary China is the most “western” place I have ever lived or been. One where I am no more and no less than the sum of my purchases. I buy therefore I am.

At the same time deep integration of seamless technology has evolved a new species of human as consumer, Homo Emptus. The local branch of KFC lets me buy a Family Bucket with nothing more than my face, using cameras linked directly to my virtual wallet which holds my credit cards and fictive cash. Recently I was walking through the precinct by my block, when a young woman ran up to me, apologising. Her cleaner’s phone had stopped receiving transfers and she didn’t have the cash to pay. Did I have any? Pulling a handful of 100 yuan notes out of my pocket, she pulled out her phone, scanned my wallet and transferred me the 300 kuai which I had in cash. In less than a minute I had become a human ATM. It was demeaning and thrilling at the same time, I imagine not dissimilar to the excitement felt by the freshly humiliated submissive.

Sometimes living here can feel like magic. But if you only immerse in the wonder, you miss the cost. Recently, a group of cyclists in Shanghai rode past a police officer, stopped by the side of the road, deep in an animated discussion with the driver they had just pulled over. The group, aware the policeman was otherwise occupied, slowly rolled through the red signal ahead, traffic light on a quiet Saturday morning. Fifteen minutes later by the time they had reached their café stop and pulled out their phones to pay, they had all been fined. Facial recognition cameras mounted on top of the police car had ID-ed them and then allowed the officer digitally ensure justice was done. When we are defined only by our consumption, this make complete sense, our economic life is simply ‘life’, giving the state unprecedented control in return for our convenience. Seamlessness may be fast, but to protect Limited Capitalism, we need seams.

The reality is though that our willingness to conflate commercial choice with civil freedoms has makes it easy for us to walk backwards into Total Capitalism. Using ‘Capitalism’ as a shorthand for so long has meant a lack of focus on the social and political dimensions that has allowing the market to perform as a poor stand-in for the whole. This has led to declining trust in the very institutions that underpin both our societal freedom and our consumer choice. The recent World Values Survey shows a minority in both Europe and the US of people born after 1970 believe it is ‘essential to live in a democracy.’ If this is the case then we have collectively failed to remind ourselves what ‘democracy’ really entails. It has also led to the bizarre inversion for many on the neoliberal right who see any democratic limit placed on the market as ‘undemocratic’

The rising indifference to the democratic can be seen in part as a consequence of Limited Capitalism’s success. Just as a fish does not know that it is wet, we take for granted the protections afforded the individual. We have collectively and systemically failed to remind ourselves of the importance of the water we all swim in. Political leaders and populist demagogues who owe their very existence to the small L liberalism that underpins Limited Capitalism have failed to give credit, choosing instead to pee in the pond for short term gain. Taking our collective socio-political foundations for granted has led to their erosion. Ignoring them has also reduced the success of a state to its economy alone. Whilst freedom of speech won’t feed my children, GDP won’t make them happier or more morally rich. This tyranny of the economic means that states which favour the fast and the outcome will be judged the best performing, outshining those that optimise for the slow, the process, the individual. By judging a state by its economy rather than their humanity, we set up a framework in which the Total Capitalism is not only increasingly easy to admire, but objectively ‘better’, with no way to quantify its glaring qualitative flaws. The fallacy that our economic lives are an adequate stand-in for our civic ones provides the ideological misdirection to pull the trick off. Only what is counted is valued.

Total Capitalism, by succeeding on these terms, promotes a worrying model of growth and unfreedom, chipping away at the old liberal consensus. As pervasive technologies allow ever-greater accumulation of information, we are reaching an inflection point, two divergent versions of how this data is used and its implications for how we live. Progress marches an there is a decision to be made, inaction is not possible. A battle that is waged by only one side, even one of ideas, is not without bloodshed; it is a massacre.

Unencumbered by the limits that the state apparatus of Limited Capitalism places on it, technology can quickly become dystopian. The Limited Capitalist model is not just a check on economic entities – as the EU has proved with its fines on Google and Microsoft - but also on governments. And it adds an implicit societal dimension to the economic role. When Apple refused to provide a back door to iPhone for the FBI, it was asserting its social responsibility, not just its economic function. It helped that these two impulses were congruent here, but the difference between that and the case of the Shanghai cyclists is stark. Tencent, makers of the ubiquitous WeChat Wallet in question, were doing nothing wrong by allowing the state to pick pockets; they were fulfilling their duty, legally obliged to do so in the People’s Republic. The FBI’s response to Apple’s refusal was that American lives might be lost, but people died enshrining the rights Apple was upholding. Do we still believe the defence of the individual is worth dying for?

It would be worth asking that question to the millions of minority Muslims constantly surveilled, or interred in camps in Xinjiang. Advanced monitoring technologies, sharpened to scalpel-like precision, have created an unprecedented digital panopticon. The whole region is monitored at a level of detail that previously would have taken vast armies of watchers and handlers. Now instead, the state has the ability to micromanage human life at a macroscale;  facial recognition, device tracking and digital monitoring turn an entire country-sized region into a prison colony. Xinjiang is not just a tragedy though; it is a testbed. China has rolled the same systems across the entirety of its domestic train network as well as at every airport, port and major public area. More disturbingly, it is a showroom for the implementation of its own particular strain of Total Capitalism. A sinister demonstration of how to unshackle the market from democracy, providing economic liberation whilst maintaining total control. For parts of the world that were previously faced with the choice between an all-inclusive version of modernity, open society and all, China offers an alluring alternative, a cake-and-eat-it model powered by pervasive technologies and financed by Belt and Road loans. And it is one that has succeeded by our own ‘Capitalist’ yardstick.

Total Capitalism is by no means inevitable, and its vision of the future not the only one. Technology is neutral and can be used co-opted for community as well as commerciality. The liberal limits within Liberal, Democratic, Limited Capitalism have allowed it to do both. But our willingness to collapse the social, political and economic into one big flat now have left us at a critical juncture. Hong Kong’s fight is an imperfect allegory for the decision that we need to make about what we should measure and what really matters, particularly in the developed world. We cannot take for granted what we already have. An era is only named after it has long passed. It is up to us to decide if we are to witness the end of this one.

[sidefrienda]

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Sunday Today - the Inquirer Magazine (The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 12, 1970)

Princess Grace Talks About Life in the Palace 

How she manages the children and the Monegasque Red Cross 

By JOHN BAINBRIDGE 

"Here, you don't just rush by the little things in life, the very things that make daily living more enjoyable, that make it less monotonous.'' 

HER Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco (nee Grace Kelly of Philadelphia) has been, after the Duchess of Windsor, by far the best known American living abroad ever since her marriage in 1956 to Prince Rainier III, ruler of the ancient Mediterranean principality that comprises three hundred and seventy acres, or half the area of New York's Central Park. Although there have been occasional snide remarks in the gossip columns about the movie star turned princess, the consensus of well-informed people is that she has handled her role as the leading lady of Monaco with dignity, style, and industry. 

"Grace works very hard." I was told by a mutual friend, the wife of an American couple who live in Europe. "In the first place, she went to work and learned to speak almost perfect French. She is also a very good mother. She takes the kids with her everywhere. When she and Rainier came to visit us last year, she brought them along. They are fine children. 

"She handles all of her official duties with aplomb, giving receptions and doing all those things, and she also works very hard for Monegasque Red Cross. This is considerably different from the typical Red Cross activity in American suburban communities. In Monaco, just about all of the social service organizations are wrapped up in this one organization the Red Cross. Furthermore, I think that many of the international events that are now held in Monaco to generate publicity and stimulate tourism were Grace's ideas, although she has never mentioned anything of the kind herself. Finally, I believe it is a very successful marriage. She has to be given some credit for that, too, doesn't she?" 

Through correspondence, I had arranged an interview with Princess Grace at five o'clock one afternoon in mid-December. I took a taxi from my hotel to the Palace, which dates from 1215 and overlooks Monte Carlo, and en route followed the old journalistic custom of trying to sound out the local temper by striking up a conversation with the driver. He complained, naturally, about the traffic. He said there are 25,000 people in Monaco and 12,000 automobiles. He had a few sharp words for Aristotle Onassis, then a very large property owner in Monaco, for opposing Prince Rainier's plans for developing the local economy.

But when I asked about Princess Grace, the driver smiled. "Is good princess," he said. "First year, we didn't know - real princess or Hollywood princess? Now we know she is real princess. Is good mother. For Monaco people, that is everything. Is also hard worker Red Cross, old people, orphans. French people, Italian people still say, 'Ah, Hollywood princess.' They just jealous of Monaco people, because Monaco people pay no taxes. We know she is real princess."

Arriving at the Palace, I alighted in front of an archway, on either side of which a soldier smartly turned out in a light blue helmet, black tunic, white belt, red-striped trousers, and white spats stood before a peppermint-striped red-and-white sentry box. An officer, whose uniform was made even more resplendent with an abundance of peppermint braid, appeared and saluted, and, upon learning the purpose of my mission, escorted me through the side gate into a small reception room. There, a man with the appearance and manner of a reservations clerk at the Ritz telephoned the Princess' secretary that I had arrived. A few minutes later, a footman came to the reception room, and escorted me across the cobbled courtyard to the small private suite in the west wing of the Palace, where the Prince and Princess live with their family. 

I was met at the door by an American woman named Mrs. Dale (her husband, I learned later, is employed by the Prince in a business capacity), who said that the Princess would arrive directly, and showed me into the sitting room. 

Although I was aware of the way the Princess is properly addressed ("Your Highness" initially and "Ma'am" thereafter), I don't recall having used either form, because, from the minute she walked into the room, shook hands, and apologized for being late, until I left, nearly two hours later, she created an atmosphere so pleasant and unaffected that formal terms of address would have seemed out of place. She was wearing a handsome suit in a soft brown shade, a single strand of pearls, and a large pearl ring. She was carrying a pair of light-colored, bone-rimmed glasses, which she toyed with at times while talking but never put on. Maturity has, if anything, enhanced her beauty. Her complexion is magnificent, her eyes are arresting, and her voice is dulcet, adding interest even to her inconsequential remarks. Most engaging is her manner, which combines elegance with an easy casualness - a quality that has no doubt gone far in winning acceptance as a "real princess" by the people of Monaco. 

After Mrs. Dale had left I asked what aspects of living in Europe she had found most enjoyable. 

"One thing I enjoy is that people here take the time to live in a pleasant way," she replied. "They are not as rushed, not as hurried, as they are in the United States. For example, there is the midday meal, which the family takes together. This is a custom that I think is very pleasant. It is one part of taking the time to enjoy the days. Of course, this manner of living can also be carried too far and become annoying. It is really not too hard to change one's ways and become as lazy and indolent as any Mediterranean. 

"A strong sense of values is another thing that one perceives here. In Monaco, there still exists a respect for authority. This is so important, particularly for young people. On television, in pictures, and in books there is so much effort expended in trying to be funny or clever, which often has the effect of actually tearing down the important qualities that young people should hang onto. It seems to be the case that young people who are in search of truth and reality are afraid to admit that something old can be something of value. I was just reading an article in which Margaret Chase Smith said that the word, 'square,' has become outmoded. It used to be one of the most respected words in our vocabulary. We talked about the 'square deal' and the 'square shooter,' and they were honored words. She said that nowadays the person who seems to get the attention and applause is the one who plays the angles. What we need today, she said, are more square people, more people who are dependable in the old-fashioned way. 

"Another difference is that in Europe there is more emphasis on manners. This has its good points and its bad points, but I think on the whole more good than bad. People here are generally more polite, and the children tend to follow that lead. I'm always appalled when I see parents intimidated by their children, and I must say that I see that quite often when I go to the United States. If I say something about the discipline in our household, they say, 'Can you do that?' Now, really. Parents do have to take a stand. They have to put their foot down. So far, we've been very fortunate with our children. So far, so good. But, of course, they're not teen-agers yet. It is a problem with teen-agers everywhere. But how a teen-ager behaves depends very much on how he behaved before he was a teen-ager. People who are indulgent, overly indulgent, with babies often say, 'Oh, he's just a baby.' Babies, one finds, understand quite a lot. 

The subject of help having been brought up, I asked the Princess how many servants she has. 

"If you mean the number who run the Palace, it would be over a hundred," she replied. "That includes the Prince's Cabinet, secretaries, a governor who overlooks the Palace, a Regisseur, who is a kind of general manager, gardeners, personal staff, electricians, a curator of archives and his assistant, a woman who does bookbinding, a housekeeper, a man who is restoring paintings, upholsterers, carpenters, painters, and probably a few more. In our personal household there are a major-domo, three butlers, five footmen, my husband's valet, my personal maid, the women who wash and sew, a chef, and an assistant chef. 

"Both the chef and his assistant are French, so we have mostly French cooking, along with many Italian dishes. We also have American dishes that I tell the chef about now and again. I have a collection of cookbooks, and I give him American recipes out of them. One thing he did recently, for the first time, was a pumpkin pie. And he bakes American cakes now, too. They're quite different from European cakes, you know."

I asked if there were any aspects of American life - the pumpkin pie and cake situation being well in hand - that she did miss. 

"One misses American efficiency, I think, more than anything else." she said. "The French - and i wouldn’t be surprised if it were true of Europeans generally - have a way of complicating things that should be relatively simple. One does miss that fine American custom of saying, 'Of course, it can be done. Why not?'

"As for the things that I do like here, I must say that one is the custom of having babies at home instead of in a hospital. Perhaps it is less hygienic, but it’s much more pleasant. Even if one has a baby in the hospital, the husband and others in the family can see the baby and hold it. That practice of keeping the baby away from the father, behind a sheet of glass, is so impersonal. As for the baby, to come from the mother's womb and almost immediately be placed in a room full of screaming infants - I'm not at all sure that that is a good practice. I feel sure that the system here is much better." 

A butler came into the room to deliver a message, and after he had left, I asked the Princess if she had retained her United States citzenship. 

"Yes, I have," she replied. "On marrying the Prince, I became Monegasque. As I have never renounced my U. S. citizenship, I have dual citizenship. So do my children. Our son will, of course, have to renounce his United States citizenship. I would like to keep mine, because I am very proud of it and sentimental about it, too. If ever there were any political problem connected with my retaining it, I would, of course, give it up. 

"You know, I find myself admiring American traits and characteristics, often without being aware that they are American. I try to incorporate these traits into my children's upbringing. For example, the hospitality for which Americans are so well known. People here are not hospitable in that way. You can know a Frenchman for twenty years, and never be invited to his home. He will entertain you very handsomely at a restaurant, but you won't see the inside of his house. To an American, this is very strange." 

At this point, a door to the sitting room was pushed open by a small, gray poodle that entered and proceeded to prance back and forth in front of the lounge, barking. 

"That's my daughter's poodle," the Princess said. "It goes through this routine every night. It means that the children are not far behind." They presently arrived, accompanied by two young women who were apparently governesses. After the children had greeted their mother and had been introduced to me, they continued into the dining room, where they and the governesses carried on what sounded like a lively conversation while having their dinner. 

Princess Grace had spoken to the children in English, and I asked if that was customary. 

"Yes, I always speak to them in English," she said. "They have an English nurse. But they are completely bilingual. Their school is conducted in French, so they read and write better in French than in English. 

"We have lunch with the children at least two or three times during the week, and always on weekends. We breakfast with them every morning, and we lunch with them on Thursdays and on Sundays and on any other day when they are free of schoolwork. 

"The children here are in school until five in the afternoon, which makes a very long day for them. Our daughter is being educated at a convent. Our son studies at home with two little friends who come in. One day he has gym in the afternoon, and on Thursdays, he takes football lessons. In French schools, I think, the sports program is insufficient. The emphasis on sports may be carried too far in American schools, but there must be a happy medium. Here, there are not as many team sports, and I think that is unfortunate. It is so important for a child to learn to play on a team, to learn teamwork. Learning to get along with the other fellow - that's basic in life today." 

Getting back to Monaco, I asked the Princess if she would tell me something about her official duties. "As president of the Red Cross, I supervise all sections and departments," she said. "We have a secretary as well as heads of the various services, but I see or review every case treated. 

"I am also interested in a committee that is preserving or trying to preserve some of the landmarks and other historic sites of Monaco. Some of the new architecture is far out of keeping with the original style here, and some of the original, I feel, should be maintained. Unfortunately, there are not a great many people here who are of the same opinion. 

"In addition, there are the musical events, the ballet, and a variety of other affairs. We try to group the official events in November, December, and January. Lots of congresses and international groups meet here, and many are received in the Palace. Other duties are presented from time to time. When we celebrated the centenary of Monte Carlo, I organized the committee that carried out that program. Incidentally, I have never been inside the Casino. There is a ruling that no Monegasque can go there, but I could, of course, if I wished. However, it is the custom that nobody in our family does. 

"As far as the daily schedule is concerned, the morning is largely taken up with matters pertaining to the running of the household and with the mail. The afternoons are largely devoted to Red Cross work and to the other interests and activities I've mentioned. 

"So there is something to do every minute - and more. I mean, I never sit around and say, 'I wonder what to do.'"

[neonwint]

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“You’re used to anticipating it.” With the festival’s late-September slot, he added, “It’s always something. “When it comes to gridlock, if you live in New York, you’re used to it,” Jones told Deadline. Festival director Kent Jones said the Lincoln Center institution is not expecting major disruptions, and it benefits from being more “on campus” than most festivals, with a few dozen films screening at its Upper West Side home. On Friday, the 56th edition of the New York Film Festival kicks off with the opening gala screening of The Favourite at Alice Tully Hall and the customary after-party at Central Park’s Tavern on the Green. The influx of vehicles and people in the city is coinciding with the annual fall ramp-up of the event calendar.

#NEW YORK GRIDLOCK ALERT TV#

Getting talent and VIPs to and from TV bookings, to and from film and TV sets or even to and from the corner deli will be an unusually intense struggle. But why again is this a story for Deadline Hollywood? In a word: logistics. This all sounds like a bummer of a start to autumn in New York. Thousands of extra cops are patrolling key locations. Many major streets are closed, and the Department of Sanitation has mobilized four dozen of its massive trucks, with 230 concrete roadblocks creating additional hindrances to anyone with bad intentions. The city’s notoriously overtaxed subway system is sure to show more signs of wear and tear during the September surge.Īnyone brave enough to get into a car - already a problematic concept given the flood of Uber and Lyft vehicles now jockeying with taxis, limousines, buses and the like - will encounter hundreds of “blocker” vehicles. Citi Bike is offering 50% off three-day passes, and ride-sharing service Via is also offering half-off discounts in Manhattan. In declaring those days, the city urges visitors to take mass transit instead of driving anywhere. In 2018, the city projects 16 Gridlock Alert Days, up from just 10 last year.

#NEW YORK GRIDLOCK ALERT UPDATE#

Anyone who needs to use the FDR will be royally screwed since it will be shut down during the heart of the rush.Court Unseals A More Detailed Inventory Of Items Retrieved At Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago Estate - Update Sure, he's the president, but if he calls himself representing the middle class the way he claims he does, he should realize that he's screwing up the commutes for thousands of people just to go around and do fundraisers and go hang out at restaurants and such. If I take the X30 around 18:30, I probably won't get home until 20:00 or after, so why bother to sit in traffic.īut I tell ya, I find it rather insulting that Obama repeatedly comes to the city in the heat of rush hour. I may just leave later since it's the end of the month and I need to approve invoices for payment, this way I can kill two birds with one stone. Saw one deadheading back to Yukon too (2422). I almost caught one of the new Prevost buses, but it was on the X17A (2421). Two X17As came, then an X17C and then finally a J, which was packed already by the time I got on at Victory & Richmond. Only 20 minutes late, but I could've been here on time but the X17Js were a mess. Just as that idea popped in my head, I see on the news that there was a 4 car collision on the upper deck of the Verrazano and then they had a helicopter showing the backup from the Verrazano back to the SIE and I said forget it. It's a long walk and I'm already tired from this cold so I was going to take car service to the X12. Anywho, I thought I would plan to take the X14, but then I said screw it. I've got a slight cold (mainly congested), so I didn't feel like running out for the X30.

[jethomme]

California Voters:  Vote YES on Proposition 10--Fairness to Renters paying in excess of 30% of their income on rent.

Make it clear to greedy developers and unscrupulous landlords that the rent is too damn high!  We’re counting on grassroots supporters to step up and vote for Proposition 10 on November 6. Your vote and your voice COUNT! Give the right of city self-determination back to each city government = local control.  People on fixed incomes like retirees, veterans, and others require reasonable rents.  Median home values have increased by 80% since 2011.   More than half the renters in the state of California spend MORE than 30% of their income on rent (Haas Institute for Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley). 

Vote for fairness, or do not be surprised at budding chaos.

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee

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State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin (fmr)

State Senator Ben Allen

State Senator Connie M. Leyva

State Senator Kevin De Leon

State Senator Ricardo Lara

State Assemblymember David Chiu

State Assemblymember Laura Friedman

State Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher

State Assemblymember Mike Davis (fmr)

State Assemblymember Phil Ting

State Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer

State Assemblymember Rob Bonta

State Assemblymember Tony Thurmond

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin

Berkeley Rent Board Member Igor Tregub

Berkeley Rent Board Member Leah Simon-Weisberg

Beverly Hills Vice Mayor John Mirisch

Culver City Vice Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells

Culver City Councilmember Daniel Lee

El Cerrito Mayor Gabriel Quinto

Emeryville Mayor Ken Bukowski (fmr)

Fontana School Board Member Mary Sandoval

Fowler Mayor Don Cardenas

Highland City Mayor Pro Tem Jesus Chavez

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu

Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo

Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson

Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin

Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz

Los Angeles City Councilmember Robert Farrell (fmr)

Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn

Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member George McKenna

Malibu City Councilmember Lou La Monte

Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel

Mountain View Councilmember Pat Showalter

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb

Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks

Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan

Redlands City Councilmember Eddie Tejeda

Richmond Vice Mayor Melvin Willis

Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles

Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin (fmr)

San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen

San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer

San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin

San Jose Councilmember Don Rocha

San Jose Councilmember Sergio Jimenez

Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees Vice President Jonathan Abboud

Santa Clara City Councilmember Nassim Nouri

Santa Cruz City Councilmember Chris Krohn

Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown

Santa Monica City Councilmember Sue Himmelrich

Santa Monica City Councilmember Tony Vazquez

Santa Monica Rent Board Member Caroline Torosis

Santa Monica Rent Board Member Nicole Phillis

Tulare City Council Member Jose Sigala

Ukiah Mayor Phil Baldwin (fmr)

Vallejo School Board Member Ruscal Cayangyang

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lauren Meister

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Berkeley Student Cooperative

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Marty’s Place Affordable Housing Corporation

Mission Economic Development Agency

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)

Oakland Community Land Trust

Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH)

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Arcata Lazy J Homeowners Association

Asian Law Alliance

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California Coalition for Rural Housing

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Chinatown Community for Equitable Development

Coalition for Economic Survival

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Comite de la Esperanza

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Equity Housing Alliance

EveryOne Home

Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California

Gamaliel CA

Glendale Tenants Union

Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League

Homes for All

Homeless Student Advocate Alliance

Housing 4 Sacramento

Housing Long Beach

Housing Rights Committee San Francisco

Hunger Action Coalition Los Angeles

Inquilinos Unidos

Isla Vista Tenants Union

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Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN)

Los Angeles Tenants Union

Manufactured Housing Action

Mountain View Tenants Coalition

Oakland Tenants Union

Orange County Mobile Home Residents Coalition

Pasadena Tenants Union

People of Color Sustainable Housing Network

People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)

Poverty Matters

Property Owners for Fair and Affordable Housing

The Q Foundation

Renters of Moreno Valley

Sacramento Housing Alliance

Sacramento Tenants Union

Sanctuary of Hope

San Diego Tenants United

San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition

San Francisco Tenants Union

Santa Ana Tenants United

Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR)

Shelter for All Koreatown

Sonoma County Manufactured-Home Owners Association

Sonoma Valley Housing Group

South Pasadena Tenants Union

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)

Students United with Renters

Union de Vecinos

United for Housing Justice (SF)

United Neighbors In Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD)

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Les Beachs

Semaine du 16 décembre 2018

Dimanche le 16 décembre 2018

Fort Lauderdale, Floride

Odomètre 52700 km (0 km)

Yatch Haven Park and Marina  (48,60$)

21oC nuage

La randonnée en vélo vers Hollywood Beach n’est que de 16 km mais il faut les gagner. La Floride a mis en place des pistes cyclables mais qui souvent se terminent abruptement à proximité des grands boulevard ou des autoroutes. Alors il faut zigzaguer et s’en remettre à la courtoisie des automobilistes. Ça nous a pris une bonne heure pour franchir les 16 km du camping à la plage. Hollywood Beach c’est le terrain de jeu des québécois. Il y en a beaucoup. La plage est assez belle et les petits bars avec de la musique live se succèdent les uns à la suite des autres. La plage de Dania Beach est aussi belle, mais il s’agit  d’un parc d’Etat. Donc pas de commerces ni d’hôtels. Le retour au camping est un peu moins laborieux. On a changé un peu l’itinéraire. Une chance qu’on Google map pour nous guider dans ce labyrinthe…

Lundi le 17 décembre 2018

JFort Lauderdale, Floride

Odomètre 52730 km (30 km)

Yatch Haven Park and Marina  (48,60$)

23oC soleil

Il faut le dire le vendeur de propane K&K sur  la rue Stirling à Hollywood donne un bon service. On remplit notre bondonne de propane qui a une capacité de 5,6 gallons. Même si le censeur montrait que le réservoir était vide il en restait encore plus de 1 gallon. On va encore en avoir besoin parce que la nuit sera plus froide. Et ce sera fait pour notre retour le 23 janvier.

Nous avons dîné au chocolada (1923 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood).Une belle terrasse extérieur pas trop cher. Beau quartier avec plein de resto et de cafés. Va falloir revenir.

On continue au Bass pro shop (200 Gulf Stream Way, Dania Beach)  pour s’acheter une chaise de parterre. Un immense magasin de chasse et pêche. Heureusement on n’a pas de bateau. On est sorti sans chaise : trop pesante…

Mardi le 18 décembre 2018

Fort Lauderdale, Floride

Odomètre 52779 km (49 km)

Yatch Haven Park and Marina  (48,60$)

24oC soleil

Cette fois on est parti vers le sud : Pompano Beach. Notre motorisé est juste de la bonne grandeur pour stationner dans les espaces publics. Mais pour stationner il faut télécharger l’application de Pompano qui n’est pas la même que celle de Lauderdale ni celle de Hollywood ni de Tyler Island. Donc dans quelques mois nous nous serons abonnés a un tas d’application sans compter les zee Pass ou les Florida Pass essentiel  pour sur certaines autoroutes. La plage de Pompano est très belle et ça paraît qu’il y a un entretien quotidien. Ça ne nous empêche pas de partir en vélo vers Fort Lauderdale By-The-Sea à Aruba Beach. Sympathique avec café et resto au bord de la mer. De vrais vacances ! Au retour on s’arrête chez West Marine, spécialiste des produits de la mer. Il ne nous reste plus beaucoup de temps avant notre départ vers Montréal jeudi. Autant en profiter. Déjà 3500km de franchi depuis notre départ il y a 26 jours. Ça va vite !

Mercredi le 19 décembre 2018

Fort Lauderdale, Floride

Odomètre 52779 km (xx km)

Yatch Haven Park and Marina  (48,60$)

24oC soleil

Visite aujourd’hui nos amis sur Lone Pine à Hallandale, Jean-Louis et Sylvie. Notre première dinde de Noël !

Jeudi le 20 décembre  2018

Fort Lauderdale, Floride

Odomètre 52779 km (xx km)

Yatch Haven Park and Marina  (48,60$)

24oC soleil

Les préparatifs du départ vers Montréal sont assez longs. Il faut fermer le motorisé dont vider le frigo, déménager le tout dans un site d’entreposage sur le camping et mettre vélos et racks à l’intérieur. Le vol est à 15h15 pour une durée de trois heures. On prend un taxi vers l’aéroport qui est situé à quelques kilomètres. (14,50$). Au revoir les Beach, on sera de retour le 23 janvier…2019.