He was also the co-writer and co-creator of Gotham Central, which took a street-level, police point-of-view approach to Gotham City’s underbelly. In fact, the books that helped make Brubaker’s name were Batbooks from the early 2000s, among them was the highly regarded Catwoman comics with artist Darwyn Cooke. (Winter Soldier actor Sebastian Stan last month teased fans with a photo of himself reading a Reckless graphic novel.)Īnd Brubaker is no stranger to the world of the Caped Crusader. 'Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham' Sets Voice Cast (Exclusive)ĭetails remain deep in the Batcave, but when the show was announced in May 2021, the producers pointed to Timm’s genre-defining 1990s Batman: The Animated Series as a benchmark and said the goal was to “once again reinvent Batman and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world.” Check out the exclusive piece of early development art above.īrubaker may be best known as the co-creator of the Winter Soldier, the popular Marvel character that co-headlined his own Disney+ series last year, but in the last decade, he has made a career of plumbing the depths of the immoral mind with his pulpy and acclaimed Criminal and Reckless comic works.
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Verdi: Macbeth – First Apparition / Chorus (Baltimore Concert Opera) Verdi: La Traviata – Giorgio Germont (Peter Jacobson Conducting Recital, Peabody Conservatory) Strauss, Richard: Ariadne auf Naxos – Harlequin (Hub Opera Ensemble) Rossini: L’Italiana in Algeri – Haly (Scene) (Lyric Opera of Baltimore) Verdi: Rigoletto – Herald / Chorus (Lyric Opera of Baltimore) Mozart: Requiem – Baritone Soloist (Richmond Symphony Orchestra)ĭelibes: Lakmé – Nilakantha (Peabody Opera Theatre) Kern: Show Boat – Charlie / Chorus (Central City Opera) Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Chorus (Central City Opera) Rorem: Our Town – Sam (Cover) / Chorus (Central City Opera) Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Figaro (Hub Opera Ensemble)īritten: The Rape of Lucretia – Tarquinius (Hexacollective) Handel: The Messiah – Baritone Soloist (Harford Choral Society) Click Here to Download Jeffrey Grayson Gates’ Resume Performance If you’ve finished Showtime’s series The Tudors and you’ve got an appetite for more historical drama … don’t miss the Wolf Hall Trilogy by bestselling author Hilary Mantel. 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Now is the perfect time to read the novel(s) that inspired the series.īased on the New York Times bestseller by Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere is currently streaming on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Īfter you finish streaming season two of Big Little Lies on HBO, start reading all of the novels by New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty. We are all staying home and spending more time streaming various binge-able series on Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Starz, and Showtime. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, predominantly Irish Catholic (i.e., "Papists") as well as British policy towards the Irish in general. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. I tell him that I love him when I am consciously aware of how present that love is, when I am embraced and caught up in it, when I am fully in that moment. I do not tell my husband that I love him every time that we part: in person, on the phone, into slumber land. Needless to type, I do not throw the word Love around lightly. I may not like you if you hurt other or myself, but love and like are not the same thing. There is nothing that you can do to stop that love. If I love you today, I will love you tomorrow. We may not always remain with the person that we love and yet we may love them forever. We may not always love the person that we love now. Regardless of the time that love is shared, or held on to, the depth, the intensity, the interwoven sense of purpose can vary. We meet many people in our lives and love many be eternal or fleeting. This book is all of these things, but it also carries an important message in an accessible format. A pick it up and put it down (finished in a day) read. Paul Verhoeven is about to deliver his vision of what Judith Brown has told about it. Very little has been published about what happens after lights out in convents. If you are a devout Christian reader you need to know what happens next before deciding whether you want to see this film. And the film sets forth toward its real objective. Sister Felicita gives Bartolomea into Benedetta’s care. Quick jump 18 years to where the child has become a woman (Virginie Efira), noted for her devotion to Jesus and gifted with an ability to see His role in most of the inexplicable events in the community and the town.Įntering the convent and Benedetta’s life comes abused, uneducated farm girl Bartolomea (Daphne Patakia). In the Italian city of Pescia, pre-pubescent child Benedetta is abandoned by her mother into the care of the nuns in the convent managed by mother superior Sister Felicita (Charlotte Rampling). The literary foundation for this 17th century drama is the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy” by Judith C Brown, published in 1986 (remember this date and read on to learn why it is important in the film’s context). WITH this film, writer (in conjunction with David Birke) and director Paul Verhoeven journeys to a theme seldom ventured on any kind of moving/talking media. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). Her soil was a country of deep conformity and regulation, but she had a glorious disregard for dull bureaucracy and decorum. Her roots were in the war (the first book, Pippi Longstocking, was published in 1945) and a decade of fear, but Pippi was a cheerfully outspoken, brave-hearted pacifist who protected the weak and stood her ground against bullies. And from Astrid Lindgren bounded fabulous Pippi Longstocking, the strongest girl in the world with her carrot-coloured pigtails and her freckles, her pet monkey, her mismatched stockings, her good-humoured disregard of authority, her spirit of misrule and joy. Tove Jansson beautifully gave us the mysterious outsider’s world of the Moomins. Richmal Crompton unleashed irrepressible Just William on to an unsuspecting conformist society. PL Travers created Mary Poppins, whose sour magic Disney tried to tame. These four women radically changed the landscape of children’s literature, making it wilder, stranger, more anarchic, and, crucially, more centred in the dreamy and unfettered imagination of the child. O nce upon a time, in the middle decades of the war-torn 20th century, there lived an Australian-born British theosophist and mystic, a respectable English woman hiding behind a man’s name, a gay and depressive Finnish Swede who lived half her life on a tiny island, and the firebrand daughter of a respectable Swedish farmer. Earlier on in the book, his mother compared the leaves of trees leaving their home as an example of what happens to slaves and their families. The story progresses rapidly, taking a jarring turn when Henry is forced to leave his family and moves to his master’s son’s tobacco factory instead. And slaves weren’t allowed to know their birthdays.” The narrator continues to explain the setting and context in which Henry is living his life. One of the most highlighted sentences is the whole book is on the first page: “Henry Brown wasn’t sure how old he was. Henry ‘Box’ Brown has a story that the book only scratches the surface of, but it is a great introduction to one of many miraculous slave stories. Ellen attempt to tell the story while immersing the reader/listener is fully accomplished. This true story is depicted in short, bed-time story fashion, although it will do fine in a classroom setting as well. Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, is a book written by Ellen Levine and masterfully illustrated by Kadir Nelson. All donated books will go directly into the library of Tidings of Peace Christian School. If you’re interested in sending in a book for review, please scroll to the bottom of this review for more details. For details on how these reviews work and my objectives, please follow this link. Our findings offer support for further investigation of the decadal-scale to centennial-scale climate response to volcanic eruptions. Five further eruptions, including one responsible for high sulfur deposition over Greenland circa 1182 ce, affected only the troposphere and had muted climatic consequences. By combining this new record with aerosol model simulations and tree-ring-based climate proxies, we refine the estimated dates of five notable eruptions and associate each with stratospheric aerosol veils. Here we shed new light on explosive volcanism during the HMP, drawing on analysis of contemporary reports of total lunar eclipses, from which we derive a time series of stratospheric turbidity. This particularly hinders investigation of the role of large, temporally clustered eruptions during the High Medieval Period (HMP, 1100–1300 ce), which have been implicated in the transition from the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly to the Little Ice Age 5. However, despite progress in ice-core dating, uncertainties remain in these key factors 4. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies and reliable estimates of both the burden and altitude (that is, tropospheric versus stratospheric) of volcanic sulfate aerosol 2, 3. Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales 1. |