I had the fortune to hear Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, through UCSB Arts and Lectures. I enjoyed the book and was excited when I saw her in the Winter line up of speakers. Guess I’m a fan girl. Campbell Hall was filled: 80:20 ratio of female to male audience members. Young, pony-tailed, blonde women […]
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty chronicles the hunt for Osama Bin Laden from 9/11 until his death in May 2011. With the upcoming Golden Globe and Oscar awards coming up, I decided I’d like to see at least one of the films that was up for best picture. The story focuses on Maya, the CIA
Peter Jackson knows Middle Earth. Or at least he’s created a world where we believe it’s Middle Earth. I was relieved when Guillermo del Toro dropped out of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey so Jackson could do the film his way. Part 1 of this adventure covers a mere 6 chapters of the book but
I told my kids that one day over winter break I was going to take them on a trip. The last time we did something like this, we went to Palm Springs Tramway and played in the snow. It required us to get up at 3am to catch our scheduled tram up the mountain. Son
Entertainment is a broad category. This year entertainment included TV, movies, music concerts, lectures, podcasts, pop music, screen casts and places entertainment. I think anything can be considered entertainment e.g. I read books, exercise, cook and read comics for entertainment. So this blog really is just one big entertainment commentary. I was thinking that maybe
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