Too Many Elephants in the Room!!
April 2, 2020By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate
On my visit to South Africa in 2015, I was surprised to learn...
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In Which Linda Ballou Shares Part Two of Her Recent 'Deep Dive Down Under' ~ Including Palm Cove, Daintree Forest and Sydney
Linda Ballou March 5, 2020 TravelBy Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate From the extreme arid red center of Australia, our Overseas...
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Linda Ballou February 20, 2020 TravelThe ultimate Australian experience with Overseas Adventure Travel is a journey through a maze of micro-climates,...
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Jessie Hanson February 20, 2020 LifestyleThere are definitely easier ways to die. Unconscious asphyxiation, firing squad, car crash...really, anything that...
Continue ReadingYou Must Come And See - Yosemite
Linda Ballou September 16, 2019 TravelSkirt the crowds and beat the summer heat in Yosemite with a stay at Tenaya Lodge, an all-inclusive resort with hot and...
Continue ReadingScott Beck And Bryan Woods Scaring Up New Films With ‘Haunt,’ ‘Boogeyman’
Sean Leary September 14, 2019 EntertainmentScott Beck and Bryan Woods aren’t slowing down. The duo, who grew up making indie films since their teen years in...
Continue ReadingHow Far Is Too Far In Comics?
Ryan Franks April 1, 2019 EntertainmentWhile I was working on my list of comics to order from Previews last month I noticed a surprising change to two Marvel...
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Up The Down Elevator
Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsThe Platform is streaming on Netflix now. It’s hard enough for a quality film to break through to audiences under normal circumstances. The...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsWe’re all scared. Can you blame us? There’s a pandemic cutting through every corner of the world. The guy who’s supposed to be in charge...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsThe internet has given us a great deal. From my laptop or phone, I have access to several lifetimes’ worth of information and culture. I can order...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsThe good news is, we’re in a golden age of horror movies. Back in the old days, horror wasn’t taken seriously as a genre. If you liked a good...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsNot long ago on my birthday, I decided to do something for myself. To celebrate my inevitable march toward old age and the grave, a drive in the...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsWho can say how we’ll react during a crisis? We all want to believe that, when the moment comes, we’ll step up. We’ll perform admirably and be...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsI like it when something cool comes from something damaged and terrible. For example, the DC Extended Universe. Initially, they were not off to a...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsA common belief is that movie critics love to trash movies. It’s thought that we critical types, after emerging from coffins buried in consecrated...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsWhen it comes to directors, there are usually two kinds. The first is the artist. When you watch a film by Spielberg, Scorsese, or Tarantino,...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsIf you’re a regular viewer of movies, you know you can track the seasons by the kinds of movies playing. Are the theaters jam-packed with big, loud...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsWe never really reckoned with World War I, not in any meaningful sense. For a while there it was called The War to End All Wars, despite the fact...
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Tim Brennan Movie ReviewsThere are two incontrovertible facts: the first is that Louisa May Alcott was a fascinating human being. Her parents were Transcendentalists. She...
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