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Spellbound: Moonrise Kingdom & Fuzjko Hemming

Having seen a few Wes Anderson movies, from the mildly amusing “Darjeeling Limited”, to the somewhat intriguing “Royal Tenenbaums”, to the downright unwatchable “Aquatic Adventures of Steve Zissou”, I did not have very high expectations of “Moonrise Kingdom”. I did expect another highly stylized drama with saturated colors, oddish characters, and improbable plots. What I […]

Pulau Dewata

Pulau Dewata is one of the names of the island of Bali, literally, “The Island of Gods”. I have often recalled hearing a piece of music on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio 2 back in the late 1980s. Radio 2 was still mostly broadcasting classical music, an odd specialty considering there were only 2 CBC […]