Welcome to the 19th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival. Over the next week over 350 films will be showing at various venues on the Orange Coast. The festival features a wide range of films, including a selection of culinary films, films about art and design, action...
?Mathematics, science, being able to use the English language. These tests don?t measure it and they don?t improve it. So why do they exist?? (Leon Botstein, President, Bard College) Eighty percent of graduating high school students will take the SAT and/or ACT tests....
Wisdom is information passed from generation to generation about how to live a good life. There are even books of the Bible dedicated to passing on such wisdom. Some of that Biblical wisdom is fairly simple and straightforward (like Proverbs), or it may require some...
What kind of man gives up a life of privilege and comfort to live in a war zone half a world away from his family because the people there need a doctor? The Heart of Nuba is the story of American doctor, Dr. Tom Catena, who works in Mother of Mary Hospital in Sudan,...
If you?re looking for a movie to go to for the fun of it, let me share what my wife?s comment was when we came out of Wes Anderson?s Isle of Dogs: ?It made me smile all the way through.? If you want a movie that allows us to consider some important issues in our...
?If I didn?t embellish life with lies, it would be unbearable.? In the opening shot of Bye Bye Germany, we watch a three-legged dog happily trotting through a street that turns out to be in a post-war displaced persons camp in Frankfort. While that dog has next to...
Tales of mystery and suspense are often a search for truth. But what if you aren?t sure that truth is even knowable? Is memory a way into the truth or is it so flawed that it clouds the truth? In Spinning Man, a college professor and homicide detective square off in a...
?I want to be a great man. I just don?t know who I am.? On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy (Jason Clarke) went off a narrow bridge. Riding in the car was a young woman political staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara). Kennedy escaped the car, but...
?When I was little, every morning I?d look out the window, and I?d think, ?Every morning it changes.? ?Yeah, when I was a kid I thought every day was different, and it would always be like that. It would always keep changing. But then I realized that, here, nothing...