The Watchmen

Visually,  comic books turned into movies are just that, visually interesting. For my taste,  there needs to be more and in the case of Watchmen, there was tons of more needed. The movie has been bashed by critics since it’s release, so there is no need to pile on, besides  it won’t make a...

DVD Corner: “The Painted Veil”

This is a love story – backwards, but a love story none-the-less. Instead of a passion that grows and then atrophies, this story follows a dead relationship on its road to vitality and a wondrous respect. I wasn’t quite sure why I liked “The Painted Veil”(2006). Did I fall into it so easily...

“They Shot Sonny on the Causeway”

They’re doing it again. Cable station AMC is doing another 8 hour “The Godfather” happening this Saturday. It will start at 4 pm and end at midnight. “The Godfather” films by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the books by Mario Puzo, live on. Parts 1, (1972) and 2, (1974), re explode every 6, 12...

Jazz In Pink at Phoenix Herberger Theater

AKARAMA Foundation, Inc. Fundraiser Friday, May 1, 2009 at Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ All star female jazz band in concert… Jazz in Pink is an all star female ensemble of musical women in jazz, that projects talent, beauty, power and femininity as they embrace the...

Resist!

“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits”, April 4 – June 14 *The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco presents an exhibit of 70 prints which “explores photography’s role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the...