Today, Kansas City became the first major American city to have fare-free public transit. City council voted unanimously to make city bus routes fare-free, reports KSHB, directing the city manager to develop and enact a plan. The city’s light rail was already free. Free bus service, which is expected to cost about $8 million, has… Continue reading Kansas City becomes first major American city with universal fare-free public transit
Directed by Sam Mendes and stars Dean-Charles Chapman, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden. 1917 opens on an idyllic image of two soldiers, asleep, resting against a tree. The fields around them are verdant, the air quiet. All is at peace. By story’s end roughly twenty-four hours later, all is at peace again. The… Continue reading REVIEW: We bow in admiration to 1917’s amazing cinematography
The Aeronauts is directed by Tom Harper, starring Eddie Redmayne as James Glaisher, Felicity Jones as Amelia Wren and written by Jack Thorne (suggested by Richard Holmes’s Falling Upwards). The Aeronauts is the story of two adventurers embarking on a record-setting hot-air balloon ascent. The year is 1862, Wolverhampton, England. Ballooning is still regarded more… Continue reading REVIEW: The Aeronauts is an adventurous yet historically poetic tale
