Angie Wang (Patra Au) and Pat Wu have been in a lesbian relationship for some thirty years. They live together in a spacious upscale Hong Kong condo. They do what many couples do, eating together, shopping together and entertaining. Both are in their sixties and retired although Pat has dreams of opening a Senior FashionContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Inside Out 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival: “All Shall Be Well””
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RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
If you reside in a legal recreational or medicinal cannabis consumption area perhaps you should take a moment to contemplate how “all those dope stores” you hear in frequent negative snippets of conversation may have ended up on the corner. It has been a mighty struggle to legalize both medicinal and recreational cannabis. Many haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival”
RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2023 Rosé from Niagara Peninsula
Always excellent. Drinkable all year round straight up or with food. Time to try their 2023 vintage. A blend of Gamay, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir. Aroma: Fully ripe raspberry, strawberry and Thames River Farms sugar babe watermelon. This rosé is what you might call fruit expressive! Palate: Smooth with some raspiness on the backContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2023 Rosé from Niagara Peninsula”
RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero”
Watching the documentary “Tish” about British photographer Tish Murtha the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” are most appropriate. “A working-class hero is something to be.” Although the late Tish Murtha now has a permanent exhibition of her photos at the Tate Museum in London she never reached the status of a working classContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero””
RKS 2024 Film: “Limbo”: Outer Planetary Experience
The Australian film “Limbo” is an outer planetary experience. Filmed in black and white in opal mining territory of the Australian outback. The terrain, mining “holes”, abandoned equipment and vehicles and caves with howls of dingos and cries of birds in the distance create an otherworldly setting for “Limbo”. Heavily tattooed murder detective Travis HurleyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Limbo”: Outer Planetary Experience”
RKS Literature: A Twit Pontificates on Aristocratic Blood (Charles Dickens)
‘Oh you know, deuce take it’ said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile,’ we can’t forego Blood, you know. We must have Blood, you know. Some young fellows, you know, may be a little behind their station, perhaps, in point of education and behaviour, and may be a little wrong, youContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Twit Pontificates on Aristocratic Blood (Charles Dickens)”
RKS 2024 Wine: German Pinot Noir: Attractive Price But Quality?
At $21 the 2021 Ruppertsberger Imperial Pinot Noir Trocken is at an attractive price but its quality? Aroma: No doubt this is a Pinot Noir or as they say in Germany Spätburgunder! Raspberry, cherry and a tad of strawberry jam. Palate: A jolt of kirsch mixes it up with raspberry. The fruit is a bitContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: German Pinot Noir: Attractive Price But Quality?”
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream”
Jamaican Dalton Harris wins the 2018 X Factor UK “talent contest”. He had been preparing for an X Factor UK appearance for seven years winning several Jamaican talent contests including “Rising Star”. Now translate the X Factor UK win into stardom, fortune and fame! Pictures circulate showing Dalton hugging a man and sitting on theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream””
RKS 2024 Wine: Jean-Maurice Raffault Chinon from the Loire
Ontario is a province in Canada producing excellent Cabernet Franc in Niagara, Lake Erie North Shore and Prince Edward County so theoretically there is no need to look to Chinon in the Loire for good Cabernet Franc but to escape being labelled as unadventurous one may wish to try a French version of Cabernet FrancContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Jean-Maurice Raffault Chinon from the Loire “
RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: Käthe Kollwitz at New York’s MoMA
In the early decades of the 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose. Focusing on themes of motherhood, grief, and resistance, she brought visibility to the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change. “I haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: Käthe Kollwitz at New York’s MoMA”
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