Posted on November 17, 2016 at 5:44 pm
We watch sports for the skill. We love sports for the heart. Sports stories give us heroes whose determination and courage is constantly tested. The athletes who face those challenges — who live for those challenges — can help us understand and face our own. Vinny Pazienza was a great boxer, but what made him …
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 5:42 pm
A psychiatrist once told me that just as an infant can have fevers that would be lethal in an adult, a teenager can have symptoms that would be evidence of psychosis at any other stage of life. Mood swings, the feeling that everyone is looking at you, disordered thinking, bizarre appearance: you might be having …
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 3:28 pm
The song from “South Pacific” gets it right. Fear, bigotry, don’t come naturally. “You have to be carefully taught.” The moving and inspiring new documentary, “Disturbing the Peace,” tells the story of people who were “carefully taught” to hate each other, Israelis and Palestinians, but have learned that they share more than they could imagine, …
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm
A treat for the whole family — a free preview of “Sing” the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The new animated film from the creators of “Despicable Me” features the voices of Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey. Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres today announced a Thanksgiving weekend event for audiences of all ages: “SingSaturday,” a …
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Posted on November 17, 2016 at 8:00 am
Israeli “sand artist” Ilana Yahav creates works that are part art, part ballet, part animation, with story/pictures accompanied by music that draw in the viewer. The original soundtrack for this film is composed, played and sung by Jeanne Rabin.
