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Highlight: American Promise
Have you heard about this doc – AMERICAN PROMISE ? It’s an emotional tale about race, class and the exclusive struggles that black boys in America must endure when attempting to achieve academically. The film intimately chronicles the lives of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers, a pair of middle-class African-American male students trying to navigate one of the nation’s most prestigious schools from kindergarten to graduation. Storytellers (parents) Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, both first generation college graduates, have been traveling the country speaking about the labor of love that won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. “We both have come to understand…
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Sometimes I Actually Eat at Home: FALL HASH
If you follow Tinsel & Tine regularly, you know I’m a foodie who can, but rarely cooks. I like to be cooked for! I have done a couple of Trader Joe’s posts, which I need to get back to – Trader Joe’s: Chicken Quesadillas & Lobster Ravioli Trader Joe’s Balela Traders Joes: Veggie Dishes But I’m not one to normally put up recipes, However, this morning I threw together a Fall Hash that I thought was delish! So I thought I’d share: I had some left over baked sweet potatoes, an apple almost going to rot, some celery on its last legs, half an onion and 2 chicken thighs…
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Cold Grub for Wikileaks Sidekick: THE FIFTH ESTATE
The social structure of The Middle Ages established The Three Estates – The First Estate: Clergy; The Second Estate: Nobility; The Third Estate: Commoners; The Fourth Estate: Press and Journalism, didn’t come about until 1787 with the first reporting of the goings on in the House of Commons of Great Britain. Now in the age of the internet and Citizen Journalism a Fifth Estate has been born! T & T The Fifth Estate Synopsis: The movie starts out with a frenzy happening in a news room, which others probably would know is The Guardian in the UK, but not having followed the Wikileaks story closely back in 2010, I…
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Flood the Drummer’s Beat Focuses On: ESCAPE PLAN
Stallone and Schwarzenegger Breakout Bigin Escape Plan By Blog Contributor Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris The former Governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger) returns to the big screen in one of his most memorable films to date – yes, better than Kindergarten Cop and Jingle All the Way. Escape Plan deals directly with the issue of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, where two of Hollywood’s biggest action heroes are forced to ban together to take down their biggest enemy ever, the U.S. Government. Owner of a high-profile security firm that specializes in testing the reliability of maximum security prisons, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), a former prosecutor, willingly spends the…
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WIN a Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain DVD (Available on Blu-ray & DVD 10/15)
Kevin Hart’s crazy, hilarious summer movie/concert is now available on Blu-ray and DVD! If you do plan on buying it from Amazon, do me a favor and buy it from Tinsel & Tine’s link (right side margin) I’m an Amazon affiliate, but have never made a dime, so I thought I’d start bringing it to my readers attention. No pressure. What’s really great is… I’ve got one copy of Kevin Hart:Let Me Explain to giveaway! Enter to win by selecting one of the following social media entry options using Rafflecopter: a Rafflecopter giveaway When Hart takes the stage, everything changes. He comes alive. Performing in front of a sold-out…
