lsanderson | Mar. 1st, 2009

Mar. 1st, 2009

Happy birthday,

Jonathan Justus and Camille Eklof preparing for service.
By CHRISTINE MUHLKE
Published: February 25, 2009

It’s one thing to visit the farm where your salad was grown. It’s another to stand on the killing floor where that evening’s braised pork originated. But to interview the Missouri chef Jonathan Justus means starting at the beginning of the dish. More

Keeping the Faith, Ignoring the History
By SUSAN JACOBY
Published: February 28, 2009

NEARLY everyone now takes for granted the wisdom, constitutionality and inevitability of some form of federal financing for community social services run by religious groups. Who anymore can imagine that the United States managed to exist for over 200 years without the government providing any direct aid to faith and its works? More

Last night I finally went to see Slumdog Millionaire. I'd liked the main actor, Dev Patel, in the first two seasons of Skins, but somehow never got around to seeing the movie. The eight Oscars kinda prodded me, and at 7:00 I ended up outside the Edina. There was a line, which was shocking, and the theater was fairly full. The movie tells a story, which seems almost shocking. There's a lot of dark, and it's not the scary dark of a Disney movie, it's more like the dark of a scary movie. But there's also a lighter side which wills out, perhaps with a wee bit too much poetic justice here and there, but still no Spider Robinson story -- without cost, without consequences, where everything is peachy keen at the end. I was happy at the end because the couple made it to the end of the movie, older and wiser, and with the gold ring.