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Friday, February 27, 2026
Rally - Stand With Minnesota
Friday February 27, 2026 - STAND WITH MINNESOTA - Banners Over I-5 Resistance rally on Evergreen Street bridge overlooking I-5 freeway. If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention
Friday, February 20, 2026
Rally - Stand With Minnesota
Friday February 20, 2026 - STAND WITH MINNESOTA - Banners Over I-5 Resistance rally on Evergreen Street bridge overlooking I-5 freeway. If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Movie Review - Paul McCartney - Man On The Run
Producers: Morgan Neville, Chloe Simmons, Meghan Walsh, Scott Rodger, Ben Chappell, Michele Anthony, David Blackman
Director: Morgan Neville
Cast: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney and too many others to list here
Genre: Documentary
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: The Beatles are one of my all time favorite rock bands and Paul McCartney is my favorite Beatle. So, I may be just a wee bit biased in my review. The movie begins with a short introduction of the Beatles from their beginings in 1960 up to the time they broke up in 1970. It then goes on to cover Paul's life from that time up to around the time John Lennon was assisinated on December 8, 1980. I never really knew much about Paul's life after the Beatles broke-up. So, this movie was particularly satisfying in that way. It was fortunate that Paul's wife Linda was a photographer because much of the footage is the result of piecing together a collage of her 1970s home movies and photographs. The movie also uses archive and gig footage, plus some voiceover interviews with various celebrities. Of course, the 1970's home movies and photographs were not up to todays quality but that didn't bother me. I really enjoyed this movie and give it a hearty thumbs up. But, as I said, I may be a wee bit biased.
Fresh Air - Interview with producer, Morgan Neville on the making of the movie, "Man on the Run".
Rotten Tomatoes: What happens when you wake up the morning after leaving the most important rock band of all time? In April 1970, Paul released his first solo album, McCartney, alongside a shocking press release that announced the beloved band had split. When asked what he'd do next, he said his only plan... was to grow up. Man on the Run captures Paul's transformative decade in the wake of The Beatles' break-up. Through stunning archival footage, Linda McCartney's exceptional photographs, and interviews with Mick Jagger, Chrissie Hynde, Sean Ono Lennon, Mary and Stella McCartney, all the living Wings members, and of course Paul himself, the film examines this time through a uniquely vulnerable lens.
Rotten Tomatoes: What happens when you wake up the morning after leaving the most important rock band of all time? In April 1970, Paul released his first solo album, McCartney, alongside a shocking press release that announced the beloved band had split. When asked what he'd do next, he said his only plan... was to grow up. Man on the Run captures Paul's transformative decade in the wake of The Beatles' break-up. Through stunning archival footage, Linda McCartney's exceptional photographs, and interviews with Mick Jagger, Chrissie Hynde, Sean Ono Lennon, Mary and Stella McCartney, all the living Wings members, and of course Paul himself, the film examines this time through a uniquely vulnerable lens.
Friday, February 13, 2026
Rally - Stand With Minnesota
Friday February 13, 2026 - STAND WITH MINNESOTA - Video of Banners Over I-5 Resistance rally on Evergreen Street bridge overlooking I-5 freeway. If you’re not upset with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention
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Friday, February 6, 2026
Rally - Stand With Minnesota
Friday February 6, 2026 - STAND WITH MINNESOTA - Video of Banners Over I-5 Resistance rally on Evergreen Street bridge overlooking I-5 freeway. If you’re not upset with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
Book Review - Between the World and Me
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Rating: Pending...
My Review: Pending...
Description (Audible): In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
My Rating: Pending...
My Review: Pending...
Description (Audible): In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Description (ChatGPT): Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a searing, intimate meditation on race in America, written as a letter to the author’s teenage son. In spare, lyrical prose, Coates explores the fragility of the Black body in a nation shaped by slavery, segregation, and systemic violence. Blending personal narrative with history and cultural criticism, he reflects on his upbringing in Baltimore, his intellectual awakening at Howard University, and the ever-present tension between hope and realism.
The book resists easy optimism. Instead, Coates offers a clear-eyed examination of power, myth, and the American Dream, urging his son—and readers—to see the country as it is, not as it wishes to be seen. The result is a powerful, unsettling work that feels both deeply personal and urgently political.
The book resists easy optimism. Instead, Coates offers a clear-eyed examination of power, myth, and the American Dream, urging his son—and readers—to see the country as it is, not as it wishes to be seen. The result is a powerful, unsettling work that feels both deeply personal and urgently political.
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