’12 Mighty Orphans’ Offers a Story of Hope During Tough Times

By Mike Szymanski Everyone wants a story of hope during tough times, and this is a story inspired by true events during the tough times of the Great Depression. How appropriate then, to bring the story to light today in the middle of some very tough times, too. With a stellar familiar cast and a ripe pack of new talent, “12 Mighty Orphans” reminds me … Continue reading ’12 Mighty Orphans’ Offers a Story of Hope During Tough Times

Summer Has Arrived With All The Fun Of This Season

By Jannie Vaugh Time for vacation, family meals and gatherings and of course the gardens are in full production. Tomatoes, Peppers and basil to name a few. The corn is tasseled and the pollen is falling on the silk it won’t be long for corn harvest. During this heat-soaked busy time it is where you will see the impact of watering and intense sun. Consistent … Continue reading Summer Has Arrived With All The Fun Of This Season

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fall 2021 Season of Exhibitions

Highlights include Costume Institute exhibition on American fashion; major international loan exhibition on Surrealism; the opening of an Afrofuturist-themed historical interior; and an exploration of how French art and design inspired Walt Disney and the films of the Walt Disney Animation Studios In-person performances and programs are resuming, including talks, tours, and family activities throughout the summer and fall, and a daylong “MetFest” on the … Continue reading The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fall 2021 Season of Exhibitions

A Summer Blockbuster in Independent Film: “Skin Deep: Formulating a Legacy” Is A Serious Piece Of 2021 Summertime Fun!

By Vernon Nickerson In the new film, “Skin Deep: Formulating a Legacy”, we are reminded that while “Jersey Shore” was becoming a cultural phenomenon, an actual phenomenally talented entrepreneur and cosmetic chemistry genius was working against relentless odds and a jaw-dropping series of unfortunate events. Thanks to the star and Executive Producer Vince Spinnato, a Jersey native and proud graduate of Vineland High School, we … Continue reading A Summer Blockbuster in Independent Film: “Skin Deep: Formulating a Legacy” Is A Serious Piece Of 2021 Summertime Fun!

BMW i Ventures Announces an Investment in Kodiak Robotics

BMW i Ventures announced today an investment in Kodiak Robotics, Inc., a leading developer of self-driving long-haul trucking technology. The funds from the BMW i Ventures investment help Kodiak expand its team and fleet, as well as continue to develop its industry-leading self-driving technology purpose-built for long-haul trucks. Kodiak is led by a team of autonomous driving veterans who hail from Google’s original self-driving team, Uber, … Continue reading BMW i Ventures Announces an Investment in Kodiak Robotics

Apple Launches Apple Creative Studios To Provide Opportunities To Young Creatives

Launching first in Los Angeles and Beijing, participants will receive hands-on experience and mentorship from renowned artists, nonprofit community partners, and Apple Apple announced Today at Apple Creative Studios, a global initiative that will provide career-building mentorship, professional industry skills training, creative resources, and access to Apple’s full product lineup of iPhone, iPad, and Mac to underrepresented communities across the globe. Creative Studios will launch … Continue reading Apple Launches Apple Creative Studios To Provide Opportunities To Young Creatives

Does A Normal Exist

By Stephan Pisko What identity thought was normal wasn’t so how can identity go back to something that never existed in the first place? Conforming with an accepted standard within an average intelligence in the usual state? Sounds very organized and setup doesn’t it? Well that is identity’s normality but when this “segregated state” is locked in a dynamic durational flow conscious mentality cannot perceive … Continue reading Does A Normal Exist

Apple Tower Theatre Opened Thursday In Downtown Los Angeles

Historic Theater Has Premiered New Technology Since 1927 Apple previewed its newest retail location at the historic Tower Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. One of Apple’s most significant restoration projects to date, Apple Tower Theatre aims to inspire even more creativity in the heart of downtown. Apple will also launch Today at Apple Creative Studios, a global initiative that will provide hands-on experience and mentorship … Continue reading Apple Tower Theatre Opened Thursday In Downtown Los Angeles

Big Bang

By Stephan Pisko Who (or) what was the dynamic energy behind the big bang? Physicists believe that it originated out of ‘nothing’ or at least possibly nothing that we as human beings’ can understand and never will totally. Metaphysics teaches us that just because you can’t see it’ doesn’t mean that it is ‘not there’ just like dark matter. For the longest time science didn’t … Continue reading Big Bang

This Year The First Day of Summer Came On Sunday, June 20

By Jannie Vaught With all the very stormy Spring we are having and all the up and down temperatures I am looking forward to Summer. We need sunshine to ripen the tomatoes and kick start the lagging flowering. It is just an unusual weather year. This week I would like to bring up some issues I am having this season with insects. Cabbage moths and … Continue reading This Year The First Day of Summer Came On Sunday, June 20

NETFLIX & WOMEN IN ANIMATION VANCOUVER ANNOUNCE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WIA VANCOUVER’S ACE PROGRAM AT BANFF

Netflix Canada and Women in Animation Vancouver (WIA) announced today the expansion of WIA Vancouver’s Animation Career EXCELerator Program (ACE). Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos included the news in his keynote speech at the virtual 2021 Banff World Media Festival where he also shared that the company will be acting as the Premiere partner of the 2022-2024 program. The goal of the … Continue reading NETFLIX & WOMEN IN ANIMATION VANCOUVER ANNOUNCE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WIA VANCOUVER’S ACE PROGRAM AT BANFF

Third Industrial Revolution

By Stephan Pisko It doesn’t really matter what happens to corporation industry speaking of a third industrial revolution big deal they can battle it out in the trenches of Fortune 500 but I can tell you this after all their corporate ‘greed grabs’ hair pulling antic escapades are done it’s the ‘citizens of the countries’ that will suffer in agony before all of this ‘skeet … Continue reading Third Industrial Revolution

An Anti-Vaccine Film Targeted to Black Americans Spreads False Information

By ©Kaiser Health News When a filmmaker asked medical historian Naomi Rogers to appear in a documentary, the Yale professor didn’t blink. She had done these “talking head” interviews many times before. She assumed her comments would end up in a straightforward documentary that addressed some of the most pressing concerns of the pandemic, such as the legacy of racism in medicine and how that … Continue reading An Anti-Vaccine Film Targeted to Black Americans Spreads False Information

Meet Mike Boryla – Author of the Sci-Fi Dystopian Thriller “Mark of the Beast”

Now Available in Audio Book By Katerina Cozias Mike Boryla, former Philadelphia Eagles pro football quarterback, was pleased this week to announce the audio version release of “Mark of the Beast” a sci-fi dystopian thriller in celebration of Audio Book Month in June. The setting is post WWIII, the East Rim of the Grand Canyon, micro-chipped and on the run, the protagonist and his family … Continue reading Meet Mike Boryla – Author of the Sci-Fi Dystopian Thriller “Mark of the Beast”

A Vocabulary of Essential Terms for Universal Understanding

By Vernon Nickerson Add Addition More More than Multiply Multiplication Logs Logarithms Subtract subtraction Less Less than Inequality Divide Division Equal Equals Equality From here we get to Calculus, Quantum Physics, and the mathematics of Star Trek, MCU, and DCU; to infinity and beyond. (S),where (s) equals silence and silence comes before sound. Sound is there to help us appreciate silence. Silence allows our ears … Continue reading A Vocabulary of Essential Terms for Universal Understanding

“They Still Want To Kill Us”

By Daniel Roumain Greenwood Black Wall StreetBlack OilGreen Money A young manMr. RowlandA younger womanMs. PageStumbled upon one anotherIn that elevator everything changed May 31, 192118 hoursA white mobEngulfed with white rage Burn it downBurn it all downA white man runnin’ with red blood on his hands Bring it downBring it all downA school, the library, our hospital, my church Burn it downBurn it all … Continue reading “They Still Want To Kill Us”

Chopin Ballade – Chopin Scherzo –

By Stephan Pisko “Chopin Ballade” Stallions’ dancing at the carnival with rumbling joy happiness carefree but serious it is love we seek socially but wait we go round and round on the carousel non-stop with our manes’ in the air kicking our hoofs’ we stumble sensationally. __________________________________________________________________________________ “Chopin Scherzo” Gentle we touch immense our embrace on the way never forgetting minus memories’ falling notes’ holding … Continue reading Chopin Ballade – Chopin Scherzo –

The State Of The World

By Joanna Panayi We are built with a reliance.It is in our bonesWe act in our nature.We learn in our nurture.To fight for our thrones.We conquer the planet.Yet, they do not get it.They continue to thread it.As we continue to spread itWe need to work together.Do not speak if you do not act.Do not act if you cannot speak.These are our livesNot only yoursHisHersEveryone.Your intolerance … Continue reading The State Of The World

DEAREST PAPA

By Thelma T. Reyna PURPOSE IN WRITING THIS BOOK (ARTIST STATEMENT, FROM THE “FOREWORD”) I tell you all this with reverence for what we, all of us, don’t know, and with dismay that many of us live every day with unmoored assumptions of our longevity. We clock in and out of interactions with one another, march lockstep in perfunctory duties that we can do, words … Continue reading DEAREST PAPA