“In a way that is possible only in Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will implicitly raise complex and provocative issues about present-day relations throughout the Americas and the rapidly changing social and cultural fabric of Southern California.” From LA/LA event’s site Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Living in Los Angeles…
“In a few days, there’s going to be this international colloquium. And this place’ll be crawling with rich and powerful people, the world’s leading business people and politicians. – What, four days in the sun and they conclude that global recovery depends on their making more money?” `“The Worricker Trilogy” – BBC TV miniseries Check…
“May be people have kept their patriotism buried for too long” ~Wu Jing in a press interview Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Wolf Warrior 2 is tearing right now through cinemas in China, making worldwide film history but it is virtually unknown outside its domestic market. It is also a terrific…
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a lot if you are in the city of Cracow. If you have already crossed Paris and Venice off your travel list and you…
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a few times with a studio, but never for a studio.” ~Luc Besson in Deadline interview July 17, 2017 By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Summer is the time…
Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Today, a couple of very different movies about Second World War and how actions of individual, anonymous people could change some big historical events. 13 Minutes is a German movie (subtitles and real German actors, no Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise in sight) and as such…
“When the financial crash happened in 2008, I realized that the stories that I have been telling since the early 90’s about consumerism and about materialism and how that had become part of the American Dream- that they were all connected.” ~ Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth Exhibition: https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/generation-wealth-lauren-greenfield By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Lauren…
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: Jack Strong: Movie to Rent “Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.” ~Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish born US National Security Adviser during…
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes, pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”…
Check it out: [CAF Note: A big shout out for our new correspondent writing under the handle “Your Culture Scout.” They are my best source for great movies, art and music and will be posting great tips in a column called “Food for the Soul” twice a month.] “Knowing is good. But knowing everything is…