When I graduated from college more than 20 years ago, I made a beeline from Vermont to San Francisco with a dream of becoming a writer. I was an English major, with a head full of Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare (chocolate milkshake, we called it), but very little sense about what working for a newspaper or […]
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The Source Reviews “I Believe in Unicorns” for MyWindow
This is both a fun and sad film. There are moments when it is just magical, as a film that has unicorn in its title. It is playful and that burdensome. The story is about a young girl with a big imagination who is stuck in a tight place, taking care of her disabled mom. […]
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The Source Reviews “F(l)ag Football” on MyWindow
F(l)ag Football goes so far past its premise. There are obviously great individual stories to tell—and this film does. Really interesting men, who have struggled with identity and sports, have been at the core of some of these struggles, as well as solutions. But it is also a traditional sports movie—where they worry about wins […]
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The Source Reviews “The Winding Stream” on MyWindow
There are usually like two types of music documentaries – the ones that are about discovery, like Searching For Sugarman that won the Academy Award a few years ago for the story about this 60s folk singer who was huge in South Africa but unknown in America, or like the really great Band Called Death, […]
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The Source Reviews “Return of the River” on MyWindow
One of the hallmarks for this year’s film festival is the number of documentaries. BendFilm Festival doesn’t necessarily have a specific genre it presents; it’s a grab bag. But increasingly, documentaries seem to be its calling card. There are some really strong entries this year. A couple true crime ones: murder mystery Love and Terror […]
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The Source Reviews “Big in Japan” on MyWindow
Big in Japan. You know, it is that age-old joke with musicians: “Oh, you know, we’re big in Japan.” Cheap Trick or any number of 70s/80s bands that weren’t anything special in America, but had these Beatlemania like followings in Japan. There is a sort of Spinal Tap’esque humor going on, but a bit more […]
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Newspaper on the Radio
Did you catch the Source Weekly’s Editor Phil Busse on 92.9 FM last week? Every Wednesday at 9:30 am, Mr. Busse will be offering a sneak peak at the upcoming week’s newspaper (on stands later Wednesday afternoon) and choosing three tracks that represent this week’s Source! Here’s a sample of last week’s segment courtesy of […]