Be a Child, My Son by Andrew Collins “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and […]
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Life Abundant: The Kiwi Edition by Andrew Collins Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of those delightfully unnecessary films. The world neither needs nor deserves a film like this indie comedy from writer and director Taika Waititi, but we are undoubtedly better off for its having been made. The film is set in the beautiful, […]
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Crazy As They May Seem by Andrew Collins The young auteur, Damien Chazelle, announced his talent to the world with a crash and a bang—literally—in the festival circuit with 2014’s Whiplash, a dark tale of a relentlessly ambitions jazz drummer and his abusive instructor at New York’s prestigious Shaffer Conservatory. The film wrung the best […]
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Black ice by Rachel Joy Watson For two years, there was black ice everywhere; on my apartment steps, on the road to work and on the pathway we walked from my car to church. Sometimes we’d risk our lives just to drive down the road for a bag of hot tacos. On the way we’d […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter from an unreleased novel by Jack H. Simons. It follows the exploits of David Skevo, a man of remarkable skills and talents, whose career as an “invisible man” started with a mission gone sideways in the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Recovery by Jack H. Simons […]
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The Best Tea for . . . Avoiding Caffeine by Heather M. Surls Let’s get this straight: I don’t prefer decaffeinated tea. My mind will always side with an older friend who spent much of his life in a former British colony. “I want REAL tea,” he once said, when presented with an array of […]
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Weaponized Curiosity by Andrew Collins When I queued up Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast last summer, I expected the show would be a hit. We’ve given his books the RedFence stamp of approval, and it seemed the versatile journalist-turned-pop-sociologist would have no trouble donning a few more hats as historian and podcaster. To no surprise, but […]
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A Better Battle by Andrew Collins In Captain America: Civil War (directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo) Marvel has once again found a way to have its cake and eat it too, proving that there are still comic book stories that don’t need the fate of the entire world at stake to be compelling. Just […]
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Go Big or . . . Trust Me, Just Go Big! by Andrew Collins It may be best to understand the charmed brilliance of Sing Street by considering the slice of life that The Sandlot captures from 1950s America. Apply the relationship to 1980s Ireland, and you’ll end up with something like this latest effort […]
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Tommy’s World by Abigail Beck “Photography can elevate the quality of life.” –Tommy Lundberg A cooling breeze floated down the alley in West Hollywood. The sun was beginning to set, forcing the oppressive Southern California heat into reluctant submission, but the red neon signs and black-and-white striped awning of Alfred Coffee {In The Alley} didn’t […]
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