Can you remember the days of yore when two simple classes of air travel existed? First class and economy class which have evolved to a confusing array of classes and subclasses and for what reason? Most likely the unrelenting drive for airline company profits masked with some confusing moniker related to customer convenience. You mightContinue reading “RKS TRAVEL: The Barbarity of Basic Economy Class Air Travel”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS 2024 Wine: “Gravity” Pinot Noir from Flat Rock Cellars: A Tough Guy from Niagara
Aroma: This nose detects Pinot Noir with certainty! Delicate and finely chiseled Keith Morrison? Tough and certain like Rosemary Barton? What is term here? Rough? Gruff? Muscular? Bold? Rich? Super ripe Niagara raspberry, blackberry, black cherry, kirsch and chocolate pudding. Palate: Full bodied with an accompanying fulsomeness. A burly Pinot Noir I would say. BlusteryContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: “Gravity” Pinot Noir from Flat Rock Cellars: A Tough Guy from Niagara”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Shade”: Mental Illness as the Horror?
“The Shade” has very little traditional horror in it. Yes, there is a terrifying ghoul and some menacing Druid like figures but the focus is on mental illness and post traumatic stress disorder so please don’t expect ghouls jumping out of the bushes. Ryan Beckman as a boy watches his father commit suicide by firearm.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Shade”: Mental Illness as the Horror?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years
“Breakfast of Champions” based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name has returned to the big screen 25 years later with a 4K restoration. Just about all “champions” in the film are a far cry from being champions of a normalcy. Characters here are champions of an eccentric otherworld. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis)Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years”
RKS 2024 Film: “SALLYWOOD”: Has Hollywood Abandoned Sally?
Sally Kirkland (playing herself) starred in the 1987 film “Anna” winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination for the same. But ageing women in Hollywood fade from the public spotlight being eaten alive by a younger tier of female stars. Zack (Tyler Steelman) has been a childhood admirer of SallyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “SALLYWOOD”: Has Hollywood Abandoned Sally?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Stolen Time”: Repressive, Oppressive, Saddening, Infuriating but a Necessary Watch
Many years ago attending university in Montreal I worked at a Extendicare nursing home now more commonly referred to as a long-term care facility. I worked in the dining room and as an occasional orderly. The first days were shocking for me with many residents lined up in wheelchairs talking to themselves or with headsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Stolen Time”: Repressive, Oppressive, Saddening, Infuriating but a Necessary Watch”
RKS 2024 Film: “Curl Power”: Or Should it Be Girl Power?
I heard a friend remark about the game of curling about as exciting as watching paint dry. Unfair to those who curl and are passionate about the sport. In “Curl Power” five British Columbian female teens are passionate about curling and compete as the “The 4K Girls”. Gently coached by Canadian Olympian curling moms theirContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Curl Power”: Or Should it Be Girl Power?”
RKS 2024 Wine: Malivoire’s Courtney Gamay from Niagara
Many ex-Canada readers are certainly familiar with Niagara Falls as one of Canada’s primo tourist sites. But how many realize Niagara Falls is surrounded by a virtual waterfall of wineries producing world class red, white, sparkling and ice wines. 20 minutes from the Falls, if that, wine country abounds with wineries many of which haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Malivoire’s Courtney Gamay from Niagara”
RKS 2024 Wine: N 10 Fonterutoli 2021 From Tuscany
The label sates predominately Merlot but I suspect this being Tuscany there is some Sangiovese in the blend. Aroma: Given the Merlot and Sangiovese the nose is full of cherry both red and black. Minute bits of blueberry. Palate: Moderate tannins. On the outskirts acid make this a good sipping wine. Almost singular cherry influenceContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: N 10 Fonterutoli 2021 From Tuscany”
RKS Literature: Oncologist Stricken by What She Fights Against For Her Patients (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
“Adjusting to the disease was at first unbearable. Her world had capsized, the entire arrangement of her existence was disrupted. She was not yet dead, and yet she had to give up her husband, her son, her daughter, her grandson, and her medical work as well, even though it was her own work, medicine, thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: Oncologist Stricken by What She Fights Against For Her Patients (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)”
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