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The Last Rose (Wines) of Summer

Rose Wines for summer’s end

 

Recommended rose wines from France and Spain to enjoy during final days of summer.

After Labor Day, summer can seem like it’s a quickly fading memory. But the reality is there’s still technically a week or so left of summer (which ends on Sept. 21) depending on when you’re reading this article.

And when it comes to wine, nothing symbolizes summer better than rose wines.

Fortunately, there’s more than just one rose of summer still in full bloom. In fact, according to several wine store owners I’ve talked to over the years, if they could stock rose wines year-round, they probably would since they seem to sell like wildfire anytime they’re on the shelves. [ . . . ]

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Groundhog Day, Facebook, and Healthcare in USA

by Michael Stevenson

GROUNDHOG DAY EXPERIMENT
Yesterday I rewatched a favorite film, Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day (1993). I’ve seen this Buddhist-themed movie dozens of times. After last night’s viewing, I decided to attempt an experiment whereby I would try to experience each day as if I was revisiting each moment and encounter.

Superficially, Groundhog Day is a about a cynical, egocentric weatherman Phil (Bill Murray) who repeats the same day over and over again (February 2nd, aka Groundhog Day) until he convinces Rita (Andie MacDowell) to fall in love with him. On a deeper level, it is a profound work of contemporary metaphysics, albeit, with occasionally hilarious sight gags (“Am I right or am I right? – Needle-nose Ned Ryersen)

Like Bill Murray’s main character Phil Connors, I will reincarnate each moment of each Continue reading “Groundhog Day, Facebook, and Healthcare in USA” →

First festival: four “Photographic stories” in the den of the abbey of Silvacane

The Abbey of Silvacane in La Roque d’Anthéron (Bouches-du-Rhône) hosts until September 30, 2017 its first festival of “Photographic Stories”. Four projects, led by five international photographers – Hélène David, Ritta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth forming a duo, Corey Arnold and Amy Friend – give their singular vision of the world. On the menu of the journey: commitment, poetry, humor.

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“Jeannette, the childhood of Joan of Arc”, the musical of Bruno Dumont after Charles Péguy

“Jeannette, the childhood of Joan of Arc” is a musical. This writing, do not expect a dish in sauce of the style “The Ten Commandments”, version Élie Chouraqui and Pascal Obispo, or an adaptation in the mode “Joan of Arc Superstar”. There are, at the beginning, the texts that Charles Péguy dedicated to the Maid of Orleans: “Joan of Arc”, dating from 1897 while he was still an atheist, and “The mystery of the charity of Jeanne d ‘Arc’, of 1910, when he regained the Catholic faith. That already marks its difference. Then there is the look of Bruno Dumont. The director of ” Ma Loute ” presented in Cannes last year, and ” P’tit Quinquin ” in 2014, [ . . . ]

It would be a pity to limit the gaze on this film to those gags who often hold anachronism. It goes much further than that.

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