The Editor’s pick of videos by some awfully talented people. We Are Made to be Awesome Sometimes we just need a pep talk, even here at RedFence. Well, thanks to Kid President, Rainn Wilson (you know, Dwight from The Office), and a timely tweet by Zachary Levi (aka Chuck), we don’t need one anymore. Go […]
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Even the Best Men Are Only Men, at Best by Andrew Collins History has a way of idealizing great leaders by framing them in the simplistic light of a few key accomplishments. Not so in Steven Spielberg’s latest cinematic offering, Lincoln. This fresh take on one of the most revered figures in American history shows […]
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More Than Just Another Bond Film . . . Almost by Andrew Collins “Think on your sins.” A line like this should give you goose bumps — especially in the hands of a good filmmaker. The problem with the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, is that it doesn’t. We all know the tropes of a […]
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Of Men and Mockingbirds by J. Hamilton I saw To Kill a Mockingbird at the Waco Theater in Waco, Texas, in January, 1963. Clueless at the time — I hadn’t heard of the book by Harper Lee, and didn’t know a thing about the movie, but I accompanied the boys from Kokernot (my dormitory at […]
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The Editor’s pick of videos by some awfully talented people. Commence Movember Deadpan master and star of a thousand, thousand memes, Nick Offerman (aka Ron Swanson of NBC’s Parks and Recreation) has turned his considerable powers (most notably the ones on his upper lip) to good with this rhapsody for testosterone. It supports Movember, a […]
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Theaters I Have Known by J. Hamilton In 1931 my father saw Frankenstein at the Seminole theater in Seminole, Oklahoma. Four years later, he watched Bride of Frankenstein at the same location. The Seminole passed for a “theater palace” in that small town, but Main Street had two other theaters as well: the Rialto, and […]
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Neon Wonderland by Lena Rivera As the sun set on Saturday night, September 22, Pershing Square transformed into a hub of light and energy. Music thumped, and the colorful excitement lured people, by the hundreds, from nearby sidewalks. Overhead, lasers flashed through thick smoke, turning it from green to purple then blue. Children swung sparkling […]
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Hard-edged Sublimities by J. Regan Hutson Sometimes life pushes us hard in one direction and we just have to go with it. For Trampled By Turtles front man David Simonett, that push came in the form of a robbery. Left with only an acoustic guitar after his car was broken into, Simonett pulled together a […]
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Epic Ride, part 1 by Titus Gee Big D sold his Nighthawk. He didn’t want to, but he was taking the wife and child a thousand miles north to a new job in Seattle. Before he went, my partner-in-two-wheeled-shenanigans hatched one final scheme. Now, Big D has kind of a knack for biting off more […]
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Endeavor Fly-by by Titus Gee Space Shuttle Endeavour is ferried toward home, passing near the Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi. The shuttle now rests back ‘home’ at Edwards Air Force Base, north of Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employee Sherry Giveans. Rocketdyne designed and built the main engines required for the […]
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