But safety “experts” reportedly deemed the sport to be unsafe and urged stores to stop selling them, causing a crash in the sport’s popularity. As counterculture took hold in the 60s, Brittain said skating exploded in popularity, producing the first skateboarding magazine in 1964, Quarterly Skateboarder. “People would wait two months for it to come out.”ĭuring the bookstore signing, Brittain also touched on the origins of skating in 1947 in La Jolla. “(The Skateboard Mag) was social media before social media,” Brittain said. Grant BrittainĪfter spending 20 years filling the glossy pages of the popular skateboarding magazine classic skateboarding images, Brittain left to start The Skateboard Mag, where he worked for 13 years.
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Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. In order to make it through the nightmarish sepat, Jin and Logan must accept. His future might be brighter than he expects-if he can stay alive long enough to find out. A Day Makes (2017) Late in the Day (2017). That single day gets weirder and troubles pile up, forcing Ceaton to take a hard look at his dreary life and accept that one day can change everything, especially himself. It’s an improbable idea-a man who deals in death finding love-but it’s like it’s meant to be. Over time he’s found a home of sorts, and he even learns he’s found a place in the hearts of the people he works with… at least enough so that they won’t put a bullet in his head because he’s outlived his usefulness to the boss.īut he never thought he’d find one day could change his life, and he’s about to discover how wrong he is.īecause in a single day, he meets the man who looks to be the one, the love of his life. Mob enforcer Ceaton Mercer has killed a lot of people in a lot of different ways-he stashed the last two bodies in a toolshed belonging to a sweetheart marine researcher in an idyllic island community-but he’s really not such a bad guy. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade Sadly, Karla lost her battle to cancer shortly before the next years dance. Karla accepted the generosity of the dance team to do the fundraiser, but only had one condition – that the event wouldn’t stop with her but would continue for the years to come to help other kids in need. Karla, just 14 years old had been newly diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor and her dance team, together with their advisor gathered together to do a fundraiser for her to show their support. In 2005, Dance of Hope was created to provide a platform for the dance families of Southern California communities in the Inland Empire, to show their love for a child in need. Ticket proceeds from the event will benefit Cook Children’s Hospital of Fort Worth and The Let It Be Foundation. It is not a competition, but rather a joining of many dance worlds for a cause, and for hope as they dance together for local kids. Join the Let It Be Foundation and dancers from around Dallas-Fort Worth as they come together with passion, purpose and hope to unite a community through the expression of dance. Dance of Hope is more than just a dance it is a gathering of a community – gathering of dance studios, school dance teams, and competitive dance productions and their supporters. Those not directly involved in the fighting are drawn into other, potentially lethal battles with Stalinist bureaucracy and restrictions on free speech and research, or with its police and penal system.Įarlier than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag fiction, Grossman’s novel shows the Soviet prison system, from the “sleepless” secret-police headquarters in Moscow to the remote Soviet camps. The novel travels between the battle’s several fronts, but also to Moscow and to evacuee life in Kazan and Kuibyshev (now Samara). Most simply, it recounts the extraordinarily brutal and heroic defence of Stalingrad in late 1942 and early 1943, which the author had begun to dramatise in the novel’s “prequel” For a Just Cause (first published 1952) and earlier reported on as the longest-serving journalist at the Stalingrad front. One of the longest and most ambitious novels of the 20th century, Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (completed 1960) is many things at once. On the other, there exists a perennial fear of and intolerance to the unfamiliar hobbies and technologies ushered into social acceptance by the youth of the day. On one hand, parents and adult community members wish to lovingly guide and protect. Whether we look at child’s play from previous eras or to distinctly modern activities like social media and cell phones, the grievances of the old to the frivolities of youth reveal a full spectrum of conflicting impulses. One can’t help but think of their own moments of hilarity and embarrassment when considering the folly of youth (I myself was almost blown up by a gasoline explosion when I was 12). Who doesn’t read that quote and not feel some bitter kernel of truth in the words? Such energy, and no direction! Such curiosity, burned on idleness and errant adventure alike! DANGEROUS adventures, at that. “Youth is wasted on the young.” – Oscar Wilde Sophie may be a master storyteller when it comes to her films, but that of her own life is told by six people close to her – a lover, her husband, her brother, a critic who follows her career, a producer she screws over, and the subject of her first work. This plot line may be somewhat familiar, but just like Sophie herself, there's nothing ordinary about the way North recounts her titular protagonist's life. It's a story that examines the notion of artistic legacy and meditates on the ethics involved in film-making and storytelling, as we follow Sophie Stark from her beginnings as a fledgling documentary maker to iconoclastic director. Anna North's The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a captivating portrait of the artist as a young woman. and Finland, Partanen began to look closely at both. To understand why life is so different in the U.S. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life-from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare-was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. Summary: A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. Idris Elba as Mandela and Naomie Harris as Winnie Mandela are extraordinary. I think "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" is excellent and inspiring. Some dismissed it as a typical TV biopic. I know some reviewers found the script for the Mandela film a bit plodding. It's still the best movie ever made, in my opinion. Then he found the best actors and shot every scene with meticulous detail, even getting a million people to recreate Gandhi's funeral march. "Gandhi" succeeded because Richard Attenborough worked on the script for 20 years. That's why there's never been a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. Of course, it's an enormous undertaking to boil Nelson Mandela's epic life down to a two-hour film. That quote concludes the new movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." It's a fitting summation to a powerful film that I urge everyone to see. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or background or religion. |