While I was getting my coffee this morning from Samir at Simple Pleasures, I ran into a local filmmaker named Kevin Epps, who was passing out postcards to promote the February 17 premiere of his film The Black Rock, a documentary feature “about the untold black experience at Alcatraz.”
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Hungarian Rhapsody
My husband and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary on Monday, which prompted me to revisit some of our wedding pics. We got married in Yosemite National Park and honeymooned in Hungary, which was brilliantly cold and romantic in January. Eight years ago today, we arrived in Budapest; both of us had been there before, separately, and loved the city so much we decided to spend the first couple of weeks of our marriage there. Here’s the view of the Danube from our suite at the wonderful old Hotel Gellert in Budapest: And here’s a street near our sweet...
Golden Gate
National Geographic Traveler magazine recently asked me to name my favorite Golden Gate Park destination. I chose the playground at Koret Children’s Quarter. Pick up the December issue of National Geographic Traveler to see what other Bay Area folks have to say about the park: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, artist Maya Lin, floral artist Stanlee Gatti, California Academy of Sciences Senior Curator of Botany Frank Almeda, local yoga celeb Janet Stone, and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. Or visit the interactive Insiders Map on the magazine’s website. As my husband and I contemplate moving...
Order of Myths, + Green Door
THE ORDER OF MYTHS, a documentary film set in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama, directed by Margaret Brown, is showing all day at Lumiere Theater in San Francisco. Brown will be in attendance at the 7:15 and 9:15 shows, along with moderator Sam Green (The Weather Underground). THE ORDER OF MYTHS has received rave reviews everywhere from the New York Times (“a wise and soberly effecting documentary”) to the LA Times (“brilliantly captivating, an invaluable portrait of us-and-them America, a smart, generous, poignant, quietly disturbing movie”). The New York Sun calls it THE KIND OF ILLUMINATING WORK THAT SENDS...
The Order of Myths Coming to SF
My twentieth high school reunion is coming up–class of 88, Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama–and as I was browsing the reunion site yesterday I came across a familiar name, Margaret Brown. She was a year behind me in school, and now she’s all grown up, and it turns out she’s been busy. Months ago, I watched a wonderful film called Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt. My husband and I talked about it for days after, but it never occurred to me to put the director’s name together with my old high school days....
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