Month April 2021

Torre do Pássaro in Campinas, Brazil

Located at the parking lot of one of the largest shopping centers in Brazil, this huge tower with a metallic bird statue on its top is has become a landmark of Campinas and its surrounding metropolitan region.  Built in 2002, alongside…

GUNDA: A Pig’s Life in Black and White

When documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky was a child, he befriended a pig. Eventually, the pig was slaughtered and served for New Year’s Eve dinner, and Kossakovsky was so distressed that he became a vegetarian on the spot. Yet his latest…

How to Recreate 1,300-Year-Old Cookies

If cookies go a few weeks without getting eaten, they turn weirdly soft or dissolve into fine dust. If cookies go 1,300 years without getting eaten, they get carefully preserved in a case at the British Museum. In the winter…

Two Distant Strangers Short Film Review

★★★★★ Stars Directed by: #TravonFree, #MartinDesmondRoe Starring: #JoeyBada$$, #AndrewHoward, #ZariaSimone Film Review by: Alicia Moore Two Distant Strangers follows Carter (Joey Bada$$) as he repeatedly attempts to travel back home to his loving dog; each attempt leading him to a…