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✥ Spellwork
Having to leave the city to see Sabina Loveridge was precisely why several years ago Tommy had offered her a sizable sum of money to be at the disposable of the Peaky Blinders-- more accurately, his disposal. No one else knew the details of what the girl was capable of, and Tommy himself knew that there was far more she could do then she would ever let on-- even John was seemingly unaware with just how powerful she was. Her exact intention, he assumed.
Naturally, she had refused. He had known that she would when he had made the offer-- no born and bred gypsy would confine themselves to the walls of a city. But he had presented it as a precedent.
Tommy forced the pedal down, urging the car go quicker than was possible. He saw the particular field he was looking for in the distance, caravans and tents adding dots of colour to the horizon. His hands gripped the steering wheel hard.
But as the car slowed down, and he rolled it off the road, onto the grass, the coolness that Tommy exhibited in face of any discussion returned itself to his very veins.
Children began to run around the vehicle, their laughs and shrieks going unnoticed as he stepped out, and made his way to the familiar lodgings. No watchmen, no rifles, no pushing through, no inspections. But for once, it wasn’t because of who he was. It was because who she was.
He knocks, and then enters without waiting, as was customary. There was no entering the caravan unless she had intention of being seen. As he lays his eyes on the brunette, the familiar bemusement sets in. Sabina was unassuming-- almost frail looking at the wrong angle. But it was her eyes that revealed her.
Hair swept up to sit at the base of her neck, she sat in a loose-fitting dress that had once been red, barefoot, her hands overturning tarot cards with a frown. Tommy stands, waiting for her to look up.
“I thought I had made it clear to John you should come right away.” Her eyes flick up to meet his.
He clears his throat. “I came as quickly as I could--”
“Sit.” She waves to the space across from her, the other end of small round table occupying a large portion of her living quarters.
He pauses at her interruption, and regards her momentarily, before stepping to the table, and taking the demanded seat. She sets down the cards in her hands, and lays her hands flat on the table’s surface. Again, their eyes meet.
“Tommy-- I know you’re believer.” It’s the distinct lack of her usual abrasive tone that brings his nerves to attention. “Not like all the widows, or rich folk looking for some meaning in their lives-- not even like Polly.” He waits for her to continue. “You know that there are far worse things than cards, and tea, and visions. And I think you know that there are far worse things than me. And even you.” So maybe John was right. Maybe she really was scared.
“There are-- things, coming here Tommy. That’s what I saw this morning, with John. But--” She looks down, her fingers stretching to keep control of her hands. “I knew that one day, somebody-- some thing, would come for me. But it doesn’t make sense. What I saw-- doesn’t make any sense at all.” He can hear the anger in her voice, grating at every word. At what exactly, Tommy didn’t know, but he continued to regard her carefully.
“If they want me, fine. I can take care of myself. But--” Sabina’s eyes, dark and full of years somehow, meet Tommy’s ice blues. “They want you. And John--” There it was, her voice cracking, as she forces herself to finish the thought. “--they want bloody Birmingham. All of it. And a girl-- some girl I’ve never seen before--” Tommy had heard enough.
“Sabina, what are you talking about? Who’s coming?”
She scoffs, shaking her head. “You know that’s not how this works. Even for you Tommy. “
His jaw tightens, and it takes all his self-control to maintain seated. He had half a mind to leave- to tell John she was just mad, and there was no use in worrying over it. But that was the trouble, wasn’t it. Tommy was worried.
“So you don’t know who it is, or what they want exactly, or when this’ll happen, yeah? I’ll take it you don’t know what we can do about it either then.”
“There’s nothing for you to do about it. I’ll deal with them.”
He can’t stop the low laugh, a scoff really, from making itself known. “You want me to do nothing, about someone coming after my family, and my city--”
“John isn’t going to survive this, Tommy.” It was with that knowledge, that Tommy went silent. His mind stopped spinning-- in fact, it seemed the world itself had stopped spinning momentarily.
“None of us are going to survive it, as it stands.” Sabina adds, and for the first time since Tommy had entered the space, she shifts her body, and leans across the table. “But you know things can change-- what I see changes. But you have to let me deal with this. They���ve come here for me. Why they stay-- what they want after that-- it doesn’t matter. Because they came here for me. I’m what brought this darkness here, and I’m what has to destroy it. And in the mean time, keep John, and the kids,-- everyone innocent of all of this, safe.” Once more, her fingers begin to run over the cards laid out. “That includes you.”
“And how do you intend on doing that, all the way out here?”
“Leave that to me, and I will make you a promise-- as long as you’re alive and well, I will be too. And they need me alive and well.”
He says nothing, his expression almost emotionless if not for the coolness emitting from his edges. “And what if something happens to you?”
“We’re as good as dead anyways, Tommy. You remember that.” If there was anything that Tommy didn’t need reminding of, it was that.
“I’ll need something of yours, and of everyone’s in the family. Just blood family, yeah?” She looks away, back out through the little window into the world. “Have John bring it all to me. Then it’ll be done.”
The idea of involving his brother deeper into this trouble would have been a more disconcerting thought if Tommy hadn’t already lost his brother, and himself, once before. But he had. And now it wasn’t about thriving anymore, in the wake of it all. It was about living to spite death itself.
“If there’s trouble coming, you need to tell John at ease. Or none of this is going to matter.” He motions, almost with a sense of disgust at her table of cards. Tommy stands abruptly, fingers tugging down at the lapels of jacket, as he makes for the door.
“Tommy--” He pauses, without looking back at her.
“Beware of the blonde. She’ll steal the heart you forget you have.”
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﹒﹒ female names masterlist !
in honor of my second milestone on here , i’ve decided to release a master list of 400+ female names i personally love and think could be used more in the community . this was also requested by a few anons and names will be added to the list frequently . the names are sorted by first letter but not alphabetically within each letter category . if you found this useful , feel free to like or reblog to spread this !
A : aurianna, addison, alannah, allegra, alina, alma, andra, avril, abella, arizona, annalise, amelia, aspen, alejandra, ayla, ales, alessia, anessa, asia, aline, adrienne, avery, armani, adaline, arden.
B : blaire, brooke, brooklyn, bruna, bettina, bianca, becca, bella, bonnie, brielle, blake, bodhi, beverly, bambi, bronte, billie, briar, bria, birdie, brighton.
C : catalina, cerise, celeste, celene, carson, camila, cecilia, callista, cadence, cassie, carmen, cali, charlie, camryn, camille, clara, claudete, chantel, chachi, capri, cove, chanel.
D : diana, devi, dylan, daphne, dani, delphine, dahlia, delia, darcy, dawn, davina, dove, daisy, delaney, dua, darya, delilah, dixie, dior, dulce, dina, dayana.
E : ember, eloisa, eleonora, emara, elena, esme, emery, emmeline, elsa, eva, evie, emmy, estelle, esther, evelyn, erin, eliana, everly, emerson, elle, ezra, eiza, eden.
F : florence, franny, fiorella, faith, fiona, faye, farrah, freya, fern, flor, frankie.
G : giulia, giulianna, georgia, ginny, grecia, giselle, genevieve, gabbie, grace, genie, gaia, giada, gemma, geles, genele, gia, gwendolyn, geneva, gracen.
H : hazel, holland, helena, harlow, haven, hera, haley, houda, heidi, hana, harley, honey, hera.
I : isobel, ivana, irma, irina, isadora, imogen, isla, ivy, inessa, ibiza, irelynn, iliana, ilana, indya.
J : juliet, jayden, jordyn, jelena, jodie, jennie, jade, jesy, josie, june, jada, jemmye, jacey, janelle, juniper, jayla, jaliah, jewel, jane, johanna, jolie.
K : kendall, kensington, kennedy, katya, karlie, katerina, kailani, koral, kai, kaia, karma, kinsley, kylie, karina, korinna, karla, kemi, kate, kerigan, kali, kiyomi, kouvr.
L : lourdes, leandra, london, lucia, luisa, logan, lena, leonora, larissa, lydia, lorelai, lylah, lettie, lottie, lalisa, luna, lara, lia, lorena, livia, layla, leighton, lyra, lola, lainey, laurel, luella, lumi.
M : maricela, mariana, maeve, mabel, mila, marbella, maia, melody, mimi, monet, malauna, mira, mallory, millie, marla, mia, marvela, marni, madelaine, maleia, magnolia, maren.
N : nilsa, nutsa, nini, naomi, noa, nevlyn, nathaly, nicolette, nadira, nicola, nova, nany, nala, niaye, nyla, noelle, nathalie,
O : olympia, orianthi, octavia, opal, oriana, ophelia, orion, oakley, odessa, odette, odelia.
P : paola, paris, peyton, phebe, priyanka, paislee, paloma, pandora, parvati, piper, perla, pearl, pia, priya, pilar, paxon.
Q : quinn, quintessa.
R : rowan, rylie, rosalie, roslyn, raquel, rose, reign, renata, raegan, reyna, ryann, raya, rhiannon, ria, rue, rhodes.
S : serena, serafina, sawyer, sylvie, sol, samira, sloane, silver, sutton, stella, saanvi, sab, seren, seven, sophia, star, skye, sabina, saskia, summer, stormy, salena, sage, sonny, solange, sahar, sumaya, shelby.
T : tatum, tayler, tara, torre, tia, thea, tyra, truly, thalia, taryn, tampson, tayli, talya, teala, tala.
U : uma.
V : valencia, violetta, venus, verity, vanessa, venecia, vinnie, vida, vivienne, valentina, velora, vera, venice.
W : willow, winona, willa, wanda, witney, westlyn, windsor, wilhelmina, wren.
X : ximena, xiomara, xashary, xena, xyla.
Y : yovanna, yves, yara, yvette, yasmin, yesenia, yensi.
Z : zara, zion, zoe, zahara, zharia, zella, zendaya, zakiyah.
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Can I ask for ⛺ with Terrovania and Hexeons please ?
HEXEONS AND TERROVANIA FRIENDSHIP LETS GOO
Hexeons are probably the dorm Terrovania is closest with! Maybe it's the influence of the Necromancy club or their vice leader disappearing to Hexeons dorm sometimes? Who knows!
Maxwell is in the same year with the Shelby's so he has interacted with them before and they are one of the few people that he considers "friends", cool people
Samuel LOVES them! Winwin is friends with Hecate so that means she's amazing by default, Malvina always cooks with him and they have fun! Sabina has a sense of mischief he likes! They are like weird aunts he loves visiting :D
#Thanks for the ask!#Hexeons.. My beloveds (2)#I had to reference the Necromancy club because I love them#Hehe#Twst oc#Other characters#Answered#Maxwell Murray#Samuel#Terrovania
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Serpent Heart
Summary: Being Sabrina’s fraternal twin had its upsides but lately the downsides were starting to get to you. You’d made a plan to deal with it, and the only question now was if you were going to let Caliban get in the way.
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A/N: hey guys so this is a little different from my usual fluffy clay boi but @hecatemacbeth7 requested this eight years ago and they’ve been so patient with me so i thought i’d post this today and then the next part of Faking It next week 💕 (also let me know if you want this to be a series?i don’t think i’m as good at angst as i am fluff but ya girl can try)
One of your earliest memories from after your parents died was listening in on a conversation between your aunts and one of their guests. It wasn’t an uncommon occurrence - you and Sabrina would slip into one of your hiding spots and stay quiet until everyone left - but this time was different. This time their guest was a seer.
She saw right through the two of you.
Luckily, she was much more benevolent than the other guests your aunts brought around. She laughed at your efforts to squirm away and asked if she could give you each a reading. Hilda wasn’t so sure if that was a good idea but Zelda encouraged any and all dabbling in witchcraft.
All she had to do was touch Sabrina’s cheek to tell her that her strong (though sometimes unfounded) sense of right and wrong would get her into trouble and that she would go through many trials before achieving greatness. She was a cat, blessed with nine lives and cursed with curiosity.
One little touch was all it took for her to tell you that you were a snake. You’d grow cold in the shadow of someone close to you before striking out on your own. Ambitious and cunning, you would always find your way into the sunlight.
The others forgot about that afternoon in a few weeks, too busy with other responsibilities or new obsessions, but you never forgot.
Almost ten years later and her words echoed through every step you took and every word you spoke. Would things have been different if you’d never met the seer? Maybe not, but maybe you’d feel differently about the plan that started forming when you went to Hell.
It all started when Lilith’s right to rule was challenged and Sabina - always quick to act, not so quick to think - made her claim to the throne. The same throne that would have been yours if you were born seven minutes earlier. The same throne that Caliban would later challenge her for.
Caliban was a tricky thing to understand. If you were a seer, maybe you'd know whether or not to trust him.
He wanted the throne, that much was clear, but he seemed to have taken an interest in Sabrina - then again, everyone took an interest in Sabrina. Harvey took an interest in her, Nick took an interest in her, and now Caliban had. It wasn’t that you were short of admirers, but that the only ones you took an interest in always preferred Sabrina.
And it’s not like you blamed them. Despite the way it may seem, you loved Sabrina. She understood you in a way that no one else did, even if she didn’t understand everything, and she loved you just the same. She was your other half, your better half.
That’s why you never put up a fight when it came to her; because at the end of the day, you cared about her happiness more than your own. You’d help her rule if she beat Caliban, and you’d figure out some harebrained scheme if she lost. It’s just the way that things were when it came to the two of you.
In the end, Sabrina got all the glory and you did all the work. Sabrina was the beautiful assistant that everyone looked at while you conned them out of their hard-earned cash. They all thought Sabrina was the magician anyway, so maybe it was time for you to debut your solo act.
So you let Caliban and Sabrina battle it out in Hell knowing all the while that you’d take the throne from whichever one of them won. Obviously, it would be easier if Sabrina won but you could handle Caliban, even if he had the hordes of hell behind him. After all, what was a demon to a Morningstar? A boy made of clay to an angel?
That kind of reasoning was why you didn’t mind when Caliban started following you around. He never spoke to you anyway; all he did was watch and keep his distance. You let him look at you all he liked because he didn’t realize that you were looking right back. He was curious. You learned all his little tricks in the week or so that he spent following you, and then you set a trap.
You went about your day just like it was any other, but went to the woods after rehearsals for the musical. Caliban didn’t come out of the shadows as soon as you expected, so you started drawing out other things to keep busy. You’d done it dozens of times before, and the whisps were always the first to come out.
They froze everything they touched in the already-cold forest, but you didn’t mind the cold. They danced across your skin and soon you were dancing and singing along with them. The sun went down while you had your fun, and Caliban came out with the moon. Pretending not to notice, you spiraled into him during one of your turns.
“Mind if I cut in?” Caliban asked, holding out a hand to steady you.
“That depends,” you said with a smile. You used your hand to open up his palm. “Do you know how to dance?”
“I’m not opposed to learning from a pretty little thing like yourself,” Caliban said.
Either he was a quick study or someone had already taught him. You didn’t mind either way. It was better than having him stepping on your toes, plus it felt nice to have his hand in yours and on your waist. The way he looked at you also sent some very annoying butterflies in your stomach into a flurry.
When the rest of the stars started coming out and the whisps were fading, you asked, “So are we going to keep dancing until the sun comes up or are you going to tell me why you’ve been spying on me?”
Caliban smiled and stared into the trees as he thought. All he said was, “You’re more difficult to understand than your sister and your friends.”
“How so?”
“Your friends are all very human with very human concerns. Sabrina included.” Caliban looked down at you and stopped moving. “But not you. You understand Hell, you don’t fear it.” He lifted a hand to your face and moved some hair from the side, watching where his skin made contact with yours before settling back on your eyes. “Tell me, Morningstar, is there anything you fear?”
Caliban started leaning in and your breath hitched. He smiled before pressing his lips to yours, and for a second you smiled too. For a second, you let him kiss you and hold you close. Once that second was over, you remembered that he was a manipulative demon who was using you to get the Throne.
You bit down on his lip hard enough to draw blood and pushed him away. Caliban fell to the ground at the same time that the metallic taste flooded your mouth. You spat it out and knelt next to Caliban to keep him in the dirt with an icy hand. The cold radiated out from your fingertips and across his chest, but he didn’t fight it.
“You want to know why I’m not afraid of anything in Hell?” you asked, pushing down a little bit harder. “I'm not afraid because I’m the one they should be afraid of.”
The ice was snaking up Caliban’s neck but all he did was stare at your hand. “So you know a few tricks," he said. "I don’t think Hell is going to be very afraid of an ice princess.”
“They will be.”
You used your other hand to push some curls from his forehead.
“You’re willing to cross your sister in order to do it?”
“If I have to,” you said. He was silent for a few seconds so you continued, “Sabrina gets everything, have you noticed that? I never used to mind when, but now I want more.”
“And what is that you want?” Caliban asked.
“Earth.” You pushed down just a touch harder on his chest and watched the ice spread across the rest of his body. “You and Sabrina can fight it out in Hell - I’ll pick up the pieces of whoever’s left - but Earth is mine.”
Caliban was unusually quiet as he thought it over, realization spreading over his face as he did. Giving up your claim to the throne, helping Sabrina with the challenges, all the so-called secret trips to Hell … it all dawned on him at the moment it took you to freeze him to that spot on the forest floor.
“I could help you,” Caliban said in a quick voice. “We could make an alliance; I become King of Hell and you can do whatever you please here on Earth.” He looked back down at your hand on his chest for a moment before looking into your eyes again. “Or I could tell your friends about this clever plan of yours.”
“And who would believe you?” you asked. “It would be just like you, Caliban, to turn sisters against one another. You’d do anything for the throne, right?”
Caliban clenched his jaw and moved to break out of the ice that encased his body. His only problem was that he underestimated you, but that was everyone’s first problem. The ice was too strong for him to break it.
You leaned down with a smile on his face. “I’ll come back for you once this all over,” you said, ignoring him when he asked what you were doing. You pressed your lips to his and kissed him while the frost spread over his face. Pulling away, you gave a sad smile to his frozen form. “One day.”
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Hello bookworms!
Today I am here with my March reading & blogging wrap-up. As I’m sure you all can relate, March was a LONG month.
Let’s get into what I read & blogged in March…
March 13th was the day my entire life came to a halt. This was the last day of school for my children, and the last day my library was open. Since I live in Ohio, we’ve been practicing social distancing for close to a month now. Ohio acted early in response to COVID-19 and seems to be faring better than many of the states surrounding us.
I have so much to be thankful for during this difficult time… So far my family has avoided illness since we’ve been able to “shelter in place.” My extended family has also managed to stay healthy, even my mother & sister-in-law who both work in the health care field. Unfortunately, I have had a few friends fall ill, but thankfully they have recovered. I still have my job, and am still receiving my hourly wage for all hours I would have worked had the library not shut down. My husband is able to work from home during this time. I fully realize how fortunate we are. My heart aches for the world during these times of uncertainty.
What have I been doing over this month at home? I’ve been helping my children while they are distance learning, spring cleaning my house, reading middle grade books, doing webinars, and making cloth masks to donate to local essential businesses & health care providers in need. Basically I am keeping myself as busy as possible to keep anxiety at bay.
» The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
A collection of deliciously dark short stories are inspired by classic fairytales & folklore. I LOVED these stories! They gave me Neil Gaiman vibes, so if you are a NG fan, I’d recommend these stories to you. I also adored the illustrations throughout that really enhanced the story.
» What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
This was a sugar sweet YA romance. If you enjoyed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, you’ll also enjoy this one too.
» The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
*4.5 Stars*
One of the best thrillers I’ve read, and I’m not a big thriller fan. I did see one of the big twists coming, but it did not hinder my enjoyment. I’m sure this will be turned into a movie at some point.
» Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
*4.5 Stars*
This was a lovely historical fiction about Maud Gage Baum, wife of the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum. I have never read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but this book made me want to read it ASAP! This was a wonderful book to read for Women’s History Month!
» Girls Resist! A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by KaeLyn Rich
This was a wonderful field guide for teens (and adults) to become involved in activism. I found the information to be very practical, informative, and accessible.
» Beyond the Bright Seaby Lauren Wolk
This was a beautiful MG historical fiction book about identity & family. I am a sucker for eccentric characters and unconventional families, so this book hit the right notes.
» Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
Far From the Tree is a beautiful YA contemporary about adoption, family, identity, and love. Told in 3 different perspectives, I enjoyed the journey & development of each of these characters.
» You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino
After reading George, I knew I wanted to read more of Gino’s work. You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! centers around Jilly, a young girl who is learning about hearing difficulties and ASL after it is discovered that her baby sister is hearing impaired. The best part of this book was learning more about the deaf/hearing impaired and the difficulties that this community faces in a world that is geared towards the hearing. The hearing impairment representation was well done and handled with care.
» Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin
While I can definitely see why people are loving this book, it came up a bit short for me. The storyline focused too heavily on the romance. This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy the romance, just that I don’t care for fantasy books where the romance is the central plot. The world-building was also lacking.
» We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey
Don’t let the fact that this is a MG sci-fi fool you. This was a powerful social commentary on immigration & the ways that media can skew perspective.
» The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
I was pleasantly surprised with the depth to this book. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali tackles heavy topics like problematic family dynamics, homophobia, discrimination, arranged marriage, cultural differences, identity, etc. I loved seeing all the Bengali culture woven throughout the book – food, dress, customs, etc. I had a few complaints with regards to the plot, Arianna’s characterization, and how things were tided up a little too nicely, but overall a solid read.
Goodreads Challenge Update:
Technically I was at 35 books at the end of March, but I had already logged two books for April by the time I took a screenshot of my Goodreads challenge.
February 2020 Reading & Blogging Wrap-Up
March 2020 TBR
Teen Librarian Archives: February 2020
Mini Book Reviews: March 2020 – Part 1
Mini Book Reviews: March 2020 – Part 2
Mini Book Reviews: March 2020 – Part 3
Which books did you read in March?
Have you read any of the books I read in March? If so, what did you think?
Did you buy any books? If so, which ones?
Comment below & let me know 🙂
March 2020 Reading & Blogging Wrap-Up #BookBlogger #Books #Reading #Bookworm #Bibliophile Hello bookworms! Today I am here with my March reading & blogging wrap-up. As I'm sure you all can relate, March was a LONG month.
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Bad Moon Rising (1919) – John x Tommy
JOHN SHELBY
The brown steed gallops away from the countryside, leaving behind wildflowers and wild mushrooms for paved paths and brick buildings. John Shelby, the rider, had no love in his heart for nature or her bounty; perhaps he might’ve in another version of his life, a version where he had not spent the past few years rotting and killing in France. Whatever was to be said about that other John Shelby, however, was purely speculation; this John Shelby cared only for guns and women, women and guns.
His most recent tryst with Sabina had made him appreciate both even more. The girl, with all of her angles and shade, was worth more than any of his others because of her abilities. She’d seen in that little teacup of hers that there was trouble coming, had told John to warn his brother and to prepare for a war. He was not the type to travel without a weapon or six, but the fear in her eyes made him question his preparedness.
It was no matter, John knew. Everything would be alright. He’d tell Tommy, get some more guns, and keep the girl around. There was nothing in the world the Shelby men couldn’t do, couldn’t have; and there was no threat or danger that they couldn’t send back to hell or wherever it had come from.
John reaches the betting shop and ties his horse up before he enters. Inside is a mess of shouting and screaming—most of which comes from Aunt Polly. Bets are being laid, money is being counted, and numbers are being written down. Even so, it only takes John a moment to find his brother.
“Tom, we need to talk.”
#para; bad moon rising#para; brothers shelby#para; john shelby#muse; john shelby#RRH; september 1919
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Archaeologists Discover Ruins of Emperor Hadrian's Ornate Breakfast Chamber
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Archaeologists Discover Ruins of Emperor Hadrian's Ornate Breakfast Chamber
Talk about dining in style: In the second century A.D., Roman emperor Hadrian and his empress, Vibia Sabina, may have eaten their breakfast on an opulent marble platform surrounded by flowing water as an entourage of servants, separated from the imperial couple by retractable bridges, stood at attention nearby.
Now, reports Ángel Gómez Fuentes for Spanish newspaper ABC, archaeologists from the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville have unearthed traces of this unique dining arrangement.
Speaking with ABC, lead researcher Rafael Hidalgo Prieto calls the discovery a “unique” and “bombshell” find.
Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. and is perhaps best known for his eponymous wall in northern Britain, commissioned the room as part of his Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa), an expansive 200-acre complex of more than 30 buildings near Tivoli, Italy.
Inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian architecture, Hadrian designed the villa as an “ideal city,” per the site’s Unesco World Heritage website. Notable features included a copy of the Temple of Aphrodite in Corinth, theaters, libraries, gardens, baths, man-made pools, galleries and a “palace” consisting of many rooms that opened onto a grand central courtyard.
Prieto describes the newly discovered structure as a water triclinium, or Roman dining room. According to the Getty Foundation’s Shelby Brown, Roman elites and their dinner guests convened in these spaces to recline on elegant U-shaped couches and enjoy expensive food and drink.
In the Villa Adriana dining room, private guests would have dined with the emperor in an exclusive, luxurious environment. As Prieto explains to ABC, per Google Translate, the archaeologists theorize that the emperor and other royals gathered on a marble platform “on top of a pool, with the water fountains behind, with the murmur of the water always present in the banquet, with the vision in front of the garden.”
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of an imperial dining room surrounded by water.
(Rafael Hidalgo Prieto / Pablo de Olavide University)
Light would have flooded into the semi-circular space through large windows. The main eating platform connected to four nearby bedchambers and latrines adorned with precious stones, reports Caroline Goldstein for Artnet News.
“In all the Roman world there is nothing like it,” Prieto tells ABC. “The emperor wanted to show things that would overwhelm the visitor, something that had not been seen anywhere else in the world and that exists only in Villa Adriana.”
As Artnet News notes, Hadrian’s Villa also featured a man-made waterway meant to represent the Nile River. Hadrian created the fountain in honor of his young lover Antinous, who drowned in Egypt in 130 A.D.
In addition to the flooded triclinium, the Spanish researchers discovered a separate dining room that Prieto thinks may have served as the model for the well-known Canopo e Serapeo (Canopus and Serapeum). An elaborate outdoor banquet space built by Hadrian, the venue boasted a fountain in the shape of a crocodile, among other imposing features. This smaller dining area was built earlier than the Canopo and featured a garden and a large pond.
As Philip Willan reports for the Times, Hadrian’s taste for grandeur also served to reinforce his status as divine ruler of Rome in the eyes of his subjects.
“The villa was a machine that served to represent the emperor’s divinity,” Andrea Bruciati, director of Villa Adriana, tells the Times.
A meal with Hadrian, he adds, would have been a “quasi-theatrical spectacle.”
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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND November 15, 2019 – Ford Vs. Ferrari, Charlie’s Angels, The Good Liar, The Report and More!
Another week where I found myself falling behind on writing just because I have so much else going on. Sorry for the tardiness of this column… again.
In case you hadn’t heard, I’ve returned to my role as house manager at David Kwong’s Off-Broadway show “The Enigmatist” so that’s taking up some of the weekend I use for writing. It’s also awards season, which means I’m being invited to a ton more events that I don’t necessarily want to turn down. Plus there’s a little something called “Disney+” which I haven’t actually had much of a chance to get into.
That be as it may, the last few weekends have been so pitiful at the box office that things can only get better, right?
My favorite movie of the weekend, as well as the year, is James Mangold’s FORD V FERRARI (20thCentury Fox), starring Christian Bale as British racecar driver Ken Miles, who is hired by Matt Damon’s racecar designer Caroll Shelby to help him create a sportscar for the Ford company to race at Le Mans in 1963 with the sole intention of defeating regular winner Ferrari. It’s an amazing film – you can read my review below – which includes a fantastic cast that includes Caitrioni Balfe from Outlander, Noah Jupe (also in Honey Boy, currently in theaters), Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas and more. I probably don’t have to say too much more about this because you can read my review below, but since it will be in my Top 5 for the year, it’s highly recommended and a movie that you will not want to miss in theaters.
My Review of Ford v Ferrari
I wish I was as bullish on Elizabeth Banks’ remake of CHARLIE’S ANGELS (Sony), co-starring Kristen Stewart, newcomer Ella Balinska and Naomi Scott from Aladdin, as well as Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, Sam Claflin (staying in asshole mode after co-starring in The Nightingale) and more. It’s a female-friendly version of the action-comedy that McG made in 2000 with a sequel called Charlie’s Angels: Fully Loaded in 2003. The latter is one of my personal guilty pleasures, even though it’s probably not a very good movie. As far as Elizabeth Banks’ movie?
Mini-Review: I really wanted to like this movie, mainly since I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Banks for so long. I really want her to shine as a filmmaker, especially in this case where she’s both written and directed this attempt to relaunch the popular ‘70s television show that often focused more on its stars T ‘n’ A than their brains and abiliites.
We meet two of the new Angels, Sabina (Kristen Stewart) and Jane (Ella Balinska), as they’re dealing with a horny millionaire in Brazil, played by Chris Pang from Crazy Rich Asians. Sabina is in the midst of pulling a big-time seduction on the sleezeball before Jane comes in with other ninja women to deal with his bodyguards. That opening scene gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect from the movie, but then the needlessly overt and deliberate “girl power” opening credits is a bit worrying of the direction where things might be going.
We then meet Naomi Scott’s Elena Houghlin, a trod-upon programmer at a big corporation getting ready to release an Amazon Echo-like device that can do anything from powering an entire building to being weaponized in dangerous ways. She tries to tell her obnoxious and sexist supervisor, played by Nat Faxon, but he refuses to tell the big boss Alexander Brock (Sam Claflin). Elena turns to the Townsend Agency and its Angels to help her blow the whistle on how dangerous the device can be in the wrong hands, so her, Sabina and Jane proceed to break into the Brock Corporation to steal one of the devices.
That’s the basic and quite derivative premise, and frankly, it’s rarely enough to keep the viewer entertained, especially once you realize that the entire movie is just a means to introduce Naomi Scott’s character as an Angel. This Townsend Agency isn’t just one small agency with a few women and one Bosley, as it has expanded worldwide with many, many Bosleys, including one retiring one played by Patrick Stewart. You see, like the Kingsmen, Bosley is just a rank of handler in between “Charlie,” who apparently is a woman, and her Angels. Stewart’s Bosley is being replaced by a former Angel, played by Banks, but first, they go on a mission with another Bosley, played by Djimon Hounsou, whom has a close relationship with Jane. (Don’t get too used to him as he’s barely in the movie.)
There’s a lot to take in as all this information is thrown at you, including a number of homages to earlier Charlie’s Angels incarnations, but the biggest problem with the movie is the fact that Kristen Stewart just doesn’t have a lot of on-screen charm. Watching her spending an entire movie trying to be funny and sexy and failing at both – well, that’s one-third of the movie that just doesn’t work at all. Fortunately, the other actors are generally better. I was really impressed by newcomer Ella Balinska, who handles a lot of the best action scenes, and I also enjoyed seeing Scott playing a character so different from Princess Jasmine in Aladdin. Even so, the attempts at comedy in Charlie’s Angels frequently falls flat, except a few moments later on.
This leaves Banks in a position where she’s forced to lean quite heavily on her soundtrack and locations to keep things interesting. While Bryan Tyler’s soundtrack is pretty good overall, I really had no interest in the pop songs written specifically for the movie.
The overall issue is that Charlie’s Angels just doesn’t offer much beyond the very basics. The fact it essentially uses the same general idea that didn’t work in Men in Black International as its basis just makes the movie derivative of another Sony movie that fell flat.
Sure, mileage is going to vary with those who see Charlie’s Angels based on how much they’ll put up with from the lackluster Stewart as the lead, but this just seemed like an idea that was destined to fail from the beginning, regardless of who was directing it.
Rating: 6/10
Last as far as the wide releases go is THE GOOD LIAR (Warner Bros.), directed by Bill Condon (Beauty and the Beast) and starring Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen, a psychological thriller about a man who isn’t what he says he is, who makes the mistake of getting on Helen Mirren’s bad side.
Mini-Review: Sometimes, it’s nice going into a movie thinking you know what to expect and then be continually surprised as it pulls the rug from under you, not once or twice, but many, many times.
At first, Bill Condon’s psychological thriller seems like a nice movie about the relationship between an older couple who meet online – Helen Mirren’s Betty, a kindly widow with an overprotective grandson, who goes on a date with Ian McKellen’s Roy Courtnay, who is a lot more than meets the eye. We quickly learn that Roy is involved in a number of grifts in trying to steal mucho bucks from some very rough Russian sorts, but we also see that Roy can be just as tough and cruel. This is all going on as Betty and Roy are getting closer, her offering Roy a place to stay in the house she shares with her grandson Steve. We know quite quickly that not everything is what it seems as far as Roy is concerned, but it’s the way we’ll learn the truth behind him and his relationship with Betty that keeps you on the edge while watching The Good Liar.
Obviously, the big draw for Bill Condon’s psychological thriller are his two fantastic actors, and neither of them disappoint, particularly Mirren, who is absolutely on fire with her performance. Since we already know that not everything about Roy is on the level, you would think that you have this film sussed, but that just isn’t the case. Even after a major revelation about Roy’s past, the relationship between him and Betty and her grandson Steven (a decently laid-back performance by Russell Tovey) just gets more interesting.
Unfortunately, I can’t say too much more about the third act where things really turn on their ear, and there’s some extremely disturbing revelations that might make the difference for some between liking or loving the movie. Me, I thought it was quite good, definitely better than similar thrillers like the recent Greta, which starts out with a suitably twisty premise but then fell flat. I was also surprised by how violent and even bloody The Good Liar gets, really earning its R-rating and not from language.
The Good Liar is a movie full of surprises that, like its characters, is never what it seems. It may not be as good as some of Condon’s influences – Hitchcock the most obvious one – but few will be disappointed by the two hours they spend in the company of Mirren and McKellen.
Rating: 7/10
You can read more about the above movies and how I think they will fare over at The Beat.
LIMITED RELEASES
One limited release opening today I highly recommend is Scott Z. Burns’ THE REPORT(Amazon Studios) aka “The Torture Report,” an in-depth political thriller based on Daniel T Jones’ investigations into the CIA’s use of extreme torture to get torture from detainees in the name of national security. Jones is beautifully played by Adam Driver in another one of his performances that really has made this a great year for the young actor as Jones is assigned by his boss, Senator Diane Feinstein (an equally brilliant performance by Annette Bening) to investigate the CIA’s use of torture techniques to get information from detainees. This is an intensely brilliant bit of filmmaking from Burns, only directing his second feature after writing some great films for Steven Soderbergh, such as Contagion and Side Effects. (I wasn’t a big a fan of The Informant! Or the recent The Landromat.) But Burns clearly did his research to tell a story that has a lot of talking and exposition but also great filming and editing to keep things moving at a fast pace, which also can be attributed to the dramatic fireworks he gets out of a cast that’s an abundance of riches, including the likes of Moira Tierney, Corey Stoll, Tim Blake Nelson and other wonderful surprises. The Report offers another of the year’s most impressive ensembles, but it’s always kept centered on Driver’s Jones and his long journey to get the report he’s writing out to the public. Burns uses some great techniques to create tension without going overboard on the thriller aspects of this story, but this is a fantastic bit of investigative exposé work for a movie that isn’t a doc. If you miss it in theaters when it’s playing in two weeks, you can catch on Amazon Prime in a couple weeks, but I do recommend giving this a look when it’s in theaters if possible since it does require the type of concentration few have while watching movies at home.
I’ll have an interview with Burns over at Next Best Picture next week.
Sadly, I wasn’t able to catch It Comes at Night director Trey Edward Shults’ WAVES (A24) before opening, but it involves the journey of a suburban African-American family led by a domineering father (Sterling K. Brown) as they “navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.” (Sorry, that’s the best I can do without having seen the movie.) It stars Kelvin Harrison from Luce, Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell and more.
I also seemed to have missed Swati Mhise’s THE WARRIOR QUEEN OF JHANSI (Roadside Attractions) – this is the running theme of this week’s column, by the way – but it looks like a cool biopic about the legendary Rani (or Queen) of Jhansi, a freedom fighter in 19thcentury India, who led her people into battle against the British Empire at the age of 24. It led to the shift of power that took down the notorious British East India Company and Queen Victoria’s reign over India. It’s opening moderately wide this week, possibly in as many as 300 theaters.
I also haven’t seen Mark Landsman’s doc SCANDALOUS (Magnolia), which explores the 60 years of the National Enquirerand it’s salacious and shocking stories.
A couple Netflix movies will get limited releases before their debut on Netflix. Jeremy Clapin’s French animated film I Lost My Body, based on the novel “Happy Hand” by Guillaume Laurant. It follows a hand as it explores the romance between a pizza delivery boy and his lady love, a librarian named Gabrielle. It seems to be opening at the Cinema Village in New York, and I assume somewhere in L.A. as well.
There’s also the French film Atlantics by Mati DIop, which won the Cannes Grand Jury prize, which is quite an achievement. Somehow, I managed to miss this at the New York Film Festival and haven’t had a single chance to see it since. Odd. It’s set in a suburb of Dakar where a 17-year-old girl named Ada is in love with a construction worker named Souleimayne, although she’s been promised to another man in a fixed marriage. After he disappears at sea, Souleimane and other workers return to get revenge on the people building the tower that has cast a shadow on the city. That will open at Film at Lincoln Center
I also didn’t get a chance to see Amp Wong and Ji Zhao’s Chinese animated film White Snake (GKIDS), which will open in L.A. at the Landmark NuartFriday and then in New York City on November 29. It’s a classic fable about a young woman named Blanca who is saved by a snake catcher named Xuan, the two of them going on a journey to discover her true identity, as she’s lost her memory. According to its PR, it offers “a sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, assassins, wuxia action, and the promise of eternal love.” So basically, everything that I look for in a movie and life.
An intriguing doc I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival was Matt Wolff’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Zeitgeist/Kino Lorber), opening at the MetrographFriday with LOTS of QnAs planned. It documents the thirty-year efforts of African-American left wing activist Marion Stokes on recording television 24 hours a day, and that includes almost every channel, becoming one of the most impressive television archivists with over 70,000 VHS tapes at the time of her death. Wolff edits the footage together to tell an amazing story.
Opening Wednesday at Film Forumis Annabelle Atanou’s debut feature MICKEY AND THE BEAR (Utopia), which takes place in the mining community of Anaconda, Montana with newcomer Camila Morrone playing a teenager who must care for her father Hank (played by James Badge Dale), who is afflicted by PTSD from serving in the Iraq war and in grief from the death of his wife.s
BAMhas the exclusive New York run on Brett Story’s documentary The Hottest August, which deals with the future of New York City following Hurricane Sandy and a particularly hot summer in 2017, and how climate change affects the city’s many denizens. It played at this years’s BAMCinemaFest and will include a repertory series called “In This Climate: Brett Story Selects” which unfortunately ends tonight.
A few other movies out this weekend in various combinations of theatrical and On Demand and digital that I just won’t have time to right about:
Feast of the Seven Fishes (Shout! Studios)
The Shed (RLJE Films)
Bluebird (Cleopatra Entertainment)
Line of Duty (Saban Films/Lionsgate)
A Reindeer’s Journey (Screen Media)
To Kid or Not to Kid (Helpman Productions)
LOCAL/REGIONL FESTIVALS
Not too many festivals of note, although Doc-NYC ends tomorrow with a few last films. If you’re in Atlanta, you can check out the Buried Alive Film Fest, a straight-up horror film festival that opened last night with the 4thAnnual Sinema Challenge for horror shorts. It will include a wide variety of features and shorts running through the weekend.
STREAMING AND CABLE
Lots of stuff hitting Netflix this week, including the animated Klaus, which had a short theatrical release last week. Also Earthquake Bird, the movie I haven’t seen and missed in the column a couple weeks back hits the streaming service after a short theatrical run. It’s a romantic drama that stars Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough, but that’s pretty much all I know.Another thing that I haven’t watched, and it’s a great shame considering what a bit Peter Morgan stan I am, but The Crown will begin its 3rdseason on Netflix with the wonderful Olivia Colman in the role of Queen Elizabeth, and man, do I need to catch up on this show.
REPERTORY
METROGRAPH (NYC):
The Metrograph begins an intriguing new series this weekend called “On the Process,” a collection of docs and narratives about famous painters and their process, including Raul Ruiz’s 2007 film Klimt, Derek Jarman’s 1986 film Caravaggio, and more to come as it runs through November 20. Metrograph is also continuing its “Noah Baumbach in Residence” series with screenings of Baumbach’s 1997 debut Mr. Jealousy on Sunday, followed by a screening of Peter Bogdonavich’s Saint Jack (1979). On Saturday, the Metrograph is also screening The Complete Works of Edward Owens, a collection of the queer Black artist’s short films from 1966 to 1967, and then on Sunday is a 30thanniversary screening of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langstonwith Julien in person. Welcome To Metrograph: Redux continues this weekend with Peter Cohen’s 1989 doc The Architecture of Doom and Cinda Firestone’s 1974 film Attica. Late Nites at Metrograph will show Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host (2006) a couple more times and also show Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995), starring Johnny Depp. This weekend’s Playtime: Family Matinees is Joe Dante’s Gremlinsfrom 1984. Downtown 81 continues, probably forever?
THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):
Glad to see Tarantino’s rep theater get back on track, and you can catch a double feature of Medium Cool (1969) and The Don is Dead (1973) tonight. Friday’s Cronenberg matinee is Videodrome, a supremely weird movie starring Debbie Harry, while the weekend’s Kiddee Matinee is Jason and the Argonauts (1963), featuring amazing stop motion visual FX from the late Ray Harryhausen. Saturday night’s midnight movie is Kevin Tenney’s 1990 movie Peacemaker, starring the late Robert Forster, with Tenney in person. Monday’s 2pm matinee of David Lynch’s Lost Highway is already sold out. Monday night’s double feature is The Stalking Moon (1968) and 1970’s Pieces of Dreams, both starring Forster.
FILM FORUM (NYC):
Thursday will be your last chance to see the new DCP’s of Yasujiro Ozu’sTokyo Story and Toyko Twilight, but that’s mainly because the Film Forum is starting a new series calledThe Romanians: 30 Years of Cinema Revolution, a 12-day series showing some of the best from that country, some which have been seen in the States like Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu from 2005 and Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest from 2006 and many others that have not. My knowledge of Romanian cinema is not good enough to recommend anything specifically but there should be some good stuff in there. Another series beginning this weekend is a longer-running series called Lee Grant: Actor. Filmmaker. Running through February and this weekend screening Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light and Norman Jewison’s 1967 film In the Heat of the Night. This weekend’s Film Forum Jr. is George Roy Hill’s 1967 movie Thoroughly Modern Millie starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing.
EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):
Well, at least the Egyptian finishes its run of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman(not repertory!) to begin a series called “Nitrate Nights 2019,” which as it sounds is about showing rare nitrate 35mm prints of film like Powell and Pressburger’s Disney film Gone to Earth from 1950 on Friday, Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) on Saturday, and then the master’s 1940 film Rebecca with special guests Christopher Nolan and Jared Case of the George Eastman Museum, that provided the print for the series. Otto Preminger’s 1940 film Laura screens Sunday, also with guests, and then Sunday night, Alexander Payne presents Edmund Goulding’s 1948 thriller Nightmare Alley, which Guillermo del Toro is in the process of remaking. Eddie Murphy will be in person at the Aero on Tuesday to show his new movie My Name is Dolemite in a double feature with Frank Oz’s 1999 film Bowfinger, both in 35mm.
AERO (LA):
Aero is mostly doing awards-campaigning screenings of movies like Her Smell (with Elisabeth Moss in person!) and a FREE 70mm screening of Joker with Todd Phillips, but let’s get to the repertory stuff. At midnight Friday, the AERO will screen the sci-fi “classic” Zardoz (1974) starring Sean Connery. Saturday night is a double feature of David Finch’s Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet as part of “Laura Dern: A Life on Screen” with Dern appearing in person! That series continues Sunday with a double feature of Rambling Rose (1991) and Small Talk (1985), that one with Rambling Rose director Martha Coolidge in person. On Tuesday, there’s a matinee screening of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven as part of “The Hidden Lives of Terrence Malick,” which makes reference to Malick’s upcoming film A Hidden Life.
MOMA (NYC):
MOMA is beginning its annual “The Contenders” series showing a number of smaller movies you may have missed, as well as continuing Vision Statement: Early Directorial Workswith a number of first films by foreign filmmakers, on Sunday showing Mira Nair’s 1988 film Salaam Bombay! MOMA also has a number of weekly series but since I don’t think this column will be up by Weds next week, we’ll have to explore them later. One cool thing they’re starting is Open Door Fridays, and this week they will be showing the Maysles Brothers’ concert movie classic Gimme Shelter all day long, which is free with a ticket to the museum.
Modern Matinees: Iris Barry’s History of Film also continues with more silent films from the 20s with piano accompaniment every weekday afternoon at 1:30pm.
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):
FilmLinc’s new series this weekend is Rebel Spirit: The Films of Patricia Mazuy, whose work I’m sadly not familiar with, so you can check out what’s playing here. Next week is the big series that I’ve been waiting for!
QUAD CINEMA (NYC):
Sadly, the Quad has been slowing down on its series, but this weekend, it will be bringing out a 4k restoration of Buster Keaton’s 1926 film Battling Butler, as well as a 2k restoration of his 1924 film The Navigator. Both films are preceded by shorts.
IFC CENTER (NYC)
Weekend Classics: May All Your Christmases be Noir shows the late Harold Ramis’ 2005 The Ice Harvest, starring John Cusack ad Billy Bob Thornton, while Waverly Midnights: Spy Games will screen the original 1962 The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra. Late Night Favorites: Autumn 2019will show Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fictionand Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange this weekend.
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):
MOMI in Astoria begins a new series called Moments of Grace: The Collected Terrence MalickFriday, which runs through December 8 and is pretty self-explanatory. Friday, it’s showing Badlands (1973), Saturday is Days of Heaven (1978)and Stuart Rosenberg’s 1972 film Pocket Money (written by Malick), plus the first two will be shown on Sunday as well. (If you miss this series or don’t feel like going to Astoria, four of Malick’s first movies will be shown at Metrograph in December.) On Saturday, MOMI is also screening the 2017 animated The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales for its Family Matinee, plus it’s also showing Ildikó Enyedi’s My Twentieth Century (1989) in a new restoration.
ROXY CINEMA (NYC)
Tonight, the Roxy is showing Francis Ford Coppola’s 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married, starring Nicolas Cage and Cathleen Turner, plus tomorrow, it will show Coppola’s The Cotton Club Encoreone more time.
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BROOKLYN (NYC)
Next week’s Terror Tuesday is the 1986 film The Wraith while the Weird Wednesday is Ralph Bakshi’s half-animated 1992 film Cool World.
LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):
This Friday’s midnight movie is Akira.
Next week, hopefully I’ll get back on track in terms of timing re: posting this column (fingers crossed!) The big movie is Disney’s Frozen 2, which I won’t have seen. Great.
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Today’s sports roundup also features Ole Miss’ Gibson Named SEC Women’s Basketball Freshman of the Week, Rebels Snag Road Win at Florida, Ole Miss Women’s Track & Field Jumps to No. 11 in Nation
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Ole Miss Women’s Tennis Recruiting Class Ranked No. 18 in Nation
As the Ole Miss women’s tennis team prepares for the upcoming National Team Indoor Championships, they received good news on Monday with the release of the latest recruiting rankings. The Rebels’ latest recruiting class is ranked No. 18 in the nation, according to Tennisrecruiting.net.
The 2017-18 recruiting class includes freshman Alexa Bortles, who joined the team in January, and Sabina Machalova, who will join the program in the fall of 2017.
Bortles, who had a WTA ranking of 894 in doubles and won ITF Pro Circuit titles, is already off to a great start with the Rebels. With a combined record of 6-0 in singles and doubles, Bortles has helped the Rebels achieve a ranking of No. 19 in the latest poll.
Machalová won the Czech Republic U-18 National Championship in singles and doubles in 2015. She currently owns a WTA ranking of 1039 in singles and 663 in doubles.
The Rebels are gearing up for the National Team Indoor Feb. 10-13 in New Haven, Connecticut, with the draw set to be announced Tuesday.
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Ole Miss’ Gibson Named SEC Women’s Basketball Freshman of the Week
Freshman forward Shelby Gibson (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) nabbed her second SEC Freshman of the Week accolade after scoring 16 points and going 7-of-8 from the free throw line to lead Ole Miss to a 84-75 road win at Florida on Monday night.
Gibson, who was also Freshman of the Week on Jan. 3 after wins over Mississippi Valley State and Arkansas, becomes the first Ole Miss player in the Insell era to earn multiple Freshman of the Week accolades and the first Ole Miss player since Alliesha Easley won the honor twice during her rookie campaign in 2006-07.
In her second career start, Gibson was a workhorse tying her career high with 16 points and nabbing six rebounds all while getting over the flu. Gibson’s 16 points marked her third straight game in double figures and is the most points Gibson has scored in an SEC contest. Gibson showcased her range, nailing her seventh three-pointer of the season, while going 7-of-8 from the free throw line – also new career marks.
The 6-3 Gibson continues to expand upon her outstanding start to her freshman season. She’s averaging 7.5 points per game, but has reached double figures in each of the last three games, averaging 13.5 points per game in that span. Ole Miss’ top scoring freshman, Gibson has grabbed a rebound in each game this season and has made her way into the scorebook on 19 occasions. She became the first Ole Miss freshman since current Coordinator of Player Engagement Armintie Herrington to open a season with back-to-back games in double figures when she posted 14 points against Southeastern Louisiana and 10 points against Lipscomb.
The Rebels open a three-game homestand on Thursday when they welcome LSU to the Pavilion at Ole Miss. Game time is set for 6 PM CT and will air on SEC Network+ and the WatchESPN app with Richard Cross and Lindsay Roy on the call.
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Rebels Snag Road Win at Florida
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It took until February but the wait was worth it, as the Ole Miss women’s basketball team (15-8, 4-6 SEC) ended its road woes with an 84-75 win over Florida in primetime on Monday night. Madinah Muhammad (Chicago, Ill.) led the way with 21 points and was joined in double figures by two of teammates including freshman Shelby Gibson (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), who tied her career high with 16 points.
The fourth quarter wasn’t for the faint of heart, as the teams went back and forth early, but Ole Miss was able to use some timely shooting from Muhammad and Shandricka Sessom (Byhalia, Miss.) to take a 71-64 lead with 5:55 left. The home team cut it to five with 2:06 to go, but Ole Miss was flawless from the line late, going 5-of-5 to seal the win.
The third period was as close of a quarter as the Rebels and have played this season with the lead never growing larger than one possession throughout. Florida tied the game at 55 with 1:21 left in the quarter on a bucket from Dyandria Anderson, who had seven points in the third quarter, but Muhammad gave the lead back to the Rebels with a bucket from the right side. Florida took a lead on the three-point play from Haley Lorenzen, but Ole Miss responded with a late triple from Erika Sisk (Oxford, Miss.) to take a 60-58 lead into the fourth quarter.
Ole Miss opened the second quarter with a 12-0 run fueled by triples from Muhammad, Sessom and Gibson, forcing the Gators to call a timeout at the 6:53 mark. Ole Miss ramped up the defensive pressure in the second quarter and it showed as the Gators had seven second-quarter turnovers.
The quarter was filled with runs, Ole Miss opened the frame with a 12-0 run and Florida closed with a 13-6 spurt over the final 4:30 to cut a once-10 point Ole Miss lead to just three points at halftime.
Both teams started the game solid from the offensive end of the floor with Ole Miss taking a 14-11 lead at the first quarter media timeout. The Rebels shot the ball well in the first quarter, shooting 41.2 percent on 7-of-17 shooting and especially capitalized in transition with an 8-0 advantage but it was the Gators who took a 20-19 lead after one.
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Ole Miss Women’s Track & Field Jumps to No. 11 in Nation
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The Ole Miss women’s track & field team has been surging all season, and Monday the Rebels jumped four spots to No. 11 in the USTFCCCA national rankings.
This marks the team’s highest ranking – indoor or outdoor – since they were No. 7 in week one of the 2008 indoor season.
The USTFCCCA computer rankings were established in 2008 as a statistics-based predictor for NCAA team success. Various media outlets released national team rankings prior to 2008, notably the Trackwire 25, and the Ole Miss women experienced some success there too, including a No. 11 national ranking during the 2001 indoor season.
Under second-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, the Rebels are led by a trio of junior standouts.
Raven Saunders is the world leader in the shot put (19.10m/62-8) and ranks No. 6 nationally in the weight throw (21.67m/71-1.25) after a big PR last weekend in New Mexico. The reigning NCAA outdoor shot put champion set the all-time collegiate records for the indoor and outdoor shot put last year and was also a fifth-place finisher in the event at the Olympic Games in Rio.
Janeah Stewart, a junior college transfer, has made a big impression in her first couple of months as a Rebel. She currently ranks No. 3 in the NCAA in the weight throw (school-record 21.86m/71-8.75) and 11th nationally in the shot put (16.81m/55-2).
Lindsey Murray has cleared a season-best 4.22m/13-10 in the pole vault, which puts her ninth in the college ranks.
The Ole Miss men are not ranked in the top 25, but have yet to fully unleash the stable of distance runners that helped them finish a program-best fourth at the recent NCAA Cross Country Championships.
The Rebels will compete at a pair of meets this weekend in the final tune-ups before the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships – the Music City Challenge (Nashville, Tenn.) and Iowa State Classic (Ames, Iowa).
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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*Books included in this batch of mini book reviews: Far from the Tree by Robin Benway, Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan, and Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis
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» Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
» Far From the Tree is a beautiful YA contemporary that explores adoption, family, identity, teen pregnancy, and love.
» Told in 3 different perspectives, I enjoyed the journey & development of each of these characters. Grace, Maya, and Joaquin’s perspectives were each fleshed out and distinct. The three separate experiences worked well here and really enhanced the story.
» Benway did a wonderful job exploring the complexities of adoption, both for individuals giving their child up for adoption and for individuals that are products of adoption.
» Far from the Tree is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, making for an emotional roller coaster ride reading experience.
› Recommended to ⇒ fans of emotional YA contemporaries
› Trigger/content warnings ⇒ alcoholism; teen pregnancy; adoption
› If you liked this book, try ⇒ With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
» Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin
» I’m a fan of the hate-to-love trope, and that is just what this was. I enjoyed watching the slow-burn romance between Lou & Reid blossom over the course of the book. The playful banter between them was on point.
» I really found this world & political system to be fascinating! I loved the 17th century France vibes.
» The story was deliciously atmospheric, perfect for a cold or rainy day.
» The storyline focused too heavily on the romance. This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy the romance, just that I don’t care for fantasy books where the romance is the central plot.
» This was heavily character driven book, therefore the plot was not as action-packed as you would expect from fantasy.
» Serpent & Dove is one of those stories where you begin with little buildup or backstory, and the author slowly reveals details as they go. This approach can be a hit or miss, and in this case it was a miss. The world-building was lacking, which is a shame since it was so intriguing.While I can definitely see why people are loving this book, it came up a bit short for me. I am not sure if I will continue on with this series or not. I am not opposed to reading the next installment, but it won’t be high up on my priority list.
› Recommended to ⇒ fantasy fans that center around romance
› Trigger/content warnings ⇒ *I would classify this book as an older YA book for readers 16+ due to a graphic sex scene*
› If you liked this book, try ⇒ The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
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» The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
» I was pleasantly surprised with the depth to this book. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali tackles heavy topics like problematic family dynamics, homophobia, discrimination, arranged marriage, cultural differences, identity, etc.
» I loved seeing all the Bengali culture woven throughout the book – food, dress, customs, etc.
» I feel like this book will be very relatable for teens of any type of conservative parents, especially for teens that don’t see eye to eye with their parents’ conservative views. It was a great portrayal of the struggles of a teen who feels they need to hide their true self from their parents because they are afraid of their scorn.
» I loved the relationship between Rukhsana & her brother, despite the fact there was every reason for her to resent him.
» I had a few complaints with regards to the plot. I can’t really get into my issues because of spoilers, but felt that some plot points were not fully developed, thus didn’t pack the emotional punch that was intended.
» Arianna, Rukhsana’s love interest, was not fleshed out at all. Not only was her characterization nonexistent, but she wasn’t exactly cast in a likable light. Instead of feeling sympathy towards her and her situation, I felt annoyed with her character.
» Things were tided up way too nicely, especially in regards to the relationship between Rukhsana and her parents.
› Recommended to ⇒ fans of culturally diverse YA books
› Trigger/content warnings ⇒ homophobia; domestic violence, forced arranged marriage; hate crime
» Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis
» As per usual, Mindy McGinnis wrote another harrowing YA book. Be Not Far From Me was uncomfortable to read at certain points. The overall tone is very grim & unsettling, so make sure you are in the right mood to read this type of book.
» I love survival stories, so I enjoyed this story about a girl that has gotten lost alone in the woods and must find her way back out. The survivalist aspects felt very realistic & well researched.
» Ashley was a fantastic YA main character. She was flawed, strong, smart (aside from running into the woods & getting lost in the first place), and real. I loved her spunk and determination. She is one of those characters that you might not exactly like at first, but she grows on you throughout her ordeal, and you can’t help but root for her.
» I loved the wilderness setting here. The way McGinnis describes the backdrop of the Tennessee mountains – basically how unforgiving & perilous the wilderness can be – added to the ambiance of the story.
› Recommended to ⇒ fans of survival stories
› Trigger/content warnings ⇒ cheating; graphic scenes
Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think?
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