For those of you keeping track, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is Episode VIII, which even though it is the sequel to “The Force Awakens” and stays true to the franchise’s central themes, has a fresh feeling to it that makes this film very pleasurable.
Charlie Chaplin stars in the “The Great Dictator.” Courtesy photo. LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1940 satire, “The Great Dictator,” starring Charlie Chaplin, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 26, at 1 and 6 p.m.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Symphony Christmas concert, taking place on Sunday, Dec. 17, at Lakeport’s Soper Reese Theatre, combines traditional holiday orchestral music, with vocal support from such talented local singers as Lorraine Gatton, and Cory and Sarah Cunningham.
Bill Murray in “Scrooged.” Courtesy photo. LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents a holiday double feature on Friday, Dec. 22, at 7 p.m., at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
Ted Kooser. Photo credit: UNL Publications and Photography. At a friend's wedding, as she stood in her reception line, an older woman leaned in and whispered, "Always rinse your dishrag in cold water so it won't stink." Advice! Christine Stewart-Nuñez lives and teaches in South Dakota, and the following poem capturing her grandmother's witty advice is from her book Untrussed, from the University of New Mexico Press.
For Elizabeth, Who Loved to Square Dance
I wore Grandma Liz's pearls for play, a plastic strand long enough to pool on the carpet over my stubbed toes. When I pull them over my head now, I smell phantoms: cigarettes, Esteé Lauder. I don't smoke or spritz on perfume. I don't layer polyester or perm my hair. I've slipped off my wedding ring as she did, signed divorce. What advice would she offer for life between husbands? Wear red lipstick and always leave it behind.
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