Power Points (East Bay Express)

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Our chakras can block us or free us, says Shirley Desai. by Anneli Rufus Even though her ancestors founded a Hindu temple in southern India and her grandfather authored a scholarly book about the Upanishads, Shirley Desai practiced no religion while growing up as a first-generation American. Then, in her thirties, she went into business. "I was looking for a model to better understand and ...

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Wilmington on DVD: The Reader, Pete Seeger, Happy Together, Pre-Code Hollywood (Isthmus)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Some movies are quintessential Oscar-nominee candidates, and so is The Reader, which helped deliver the 2008 "Best Actress" statuette to Kate Winslet. Not that she didn't deserve it, but it's a very obvious choice: Winslet plays Hanna, a tragic German anti-heroine who experiences ecstasy and agony during a forbidden romance with a younger Jewish boy, all set against a Holocaust background.

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Wilmington on DVD: The Reader, Pete Seeger, Happy Together, Pre-Code Hollywood (Isthmus)