Jason Reitman brought his newest film, “Saturday Night,” a re-enactment of the opening night (October 11, 1975) when “Saturday Night Live” went on the air “live” for the first time to the Nashville Film Festival on September 21, 2024. When “Saturday Night” played to a packed house at the Nashville Film Festival, Writer/Director Reitman […]
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Shouldn’t we all celebrate our birthdays with old friends? Of course we should, and we did. Dinner at Monarch (which is hard to find, but has lobster roll) and cocktails at Up, which is on top of the downtown Davenport hotel (Current). And lots of funny stories from many years of friendship and fond memories. […]
This will be a stream-of-consciousness retelling of last weekend’s Birthday Weekend in downtown Austin. It was my husband’s birthday AND we had secured appointments for our second Pfizer Covid-19 shots at the HEB store on 7th Street. That is truly something to celebrate, since we are supposed to fly to Mexico in early April and […]
We have arrived in Des Moines (Iowa) from Austin (Texas) for our Annual Oscar Predicting Contest with our oldest and dearest friends. The planes out of Austin to Des Moines were few and far between. There were two and neither flight was direct. We flew through St. Louis and I was able to put my […]
Lewis Black (from the Lewis Black website) Comedians Lewis Black and John Bowman came to the Chicago Theater on October 6th and performed to a full house, lampooning current events, politics, and life in general. Black’s set reminded me of one I attended by David Brenner years ago, in that he presents less of a […]
Emily Blunt in “A Quiet Place,” the Opening Night Film at the 25th SXSW Film Festival, which is now SXSW Festival and Conference(s). How in the world did two young men from Bettendorf, Iowa, wind up scripting the Opening Night film of one of the most prestigious film festivals and conferences in the country, SXSW, […]
On Saturday, August 9th, I’ll be signing copies of KHAKI=KILLER at Book World inside South Park Mall. The first two books in the series will also be available for purchase. “The Color of Evil” series focuses on a young Cedar Falls, Iowa boy, Tad McGreevy, who has a paranormal power to “see” the crimes of […]
Alleman’s 50th class reunion was held at the Holiday Inn in Rock Island on Saturday, September 14, 2013. Here are some pictures from the event, with identification if (and only if) I can identify the participants. Since it wasn’t my class, you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t put names under some of the […]
A gray day here in Australia with temperatures near 70 Fahrenheit. We watched “Network” and “Midnight Express” till 3:30 a.m.. so we got a late start. Stacey joined us at 3 p.m. and we took off for Circular Quay Theater, 2 blocks away and saw “Silver Linings Playbook.” Cost of an adult ticket? $18. Cost […]