On newsstands this week

  There is nothing even remotely filmi about this post, but I’m breaking my own protocol here to draw your attention to a story that’s very dear to my heart and that is running in this week’s issue of the U.S. paper It’s  a tribute/bio/remembrance of a man who, at age 30, was beaten into […]

The Darjeeling Limited

  Let’s see, three intense brothers named Jack, Peter and Francis – all with heavy issues, a fondness for dramatic gestures and a little liquid chemical assistance to get through, and a hard-headed mother named Patricia”¦.hmm, Irish possibly? Meet the Whitman boys.   The wealthy trio, still grieving for the loss of their father a […]

What to do…

…in Bombay over the weekend. A  friend has an exhibition starting at week’s end in Bombay…those of you who are there and can go, please do, since unfortunately I’m not and I can’t….. same friend has several photographs stateside in an exhibition at the Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum devoted entirely to that surging city by […]