Healdsburg Happenings, Jan. 18
A variety of events are happening in Healdsburg this month, including a Social Services Fair, a Neil Diamond tribute band, S Hotel Jazz, a Pipe-Organ Concert, Bowling Benefit, Dance and Vocal performance and more.
The Post
Way back in the pre-fake-news time of 1971, the New York Times began publishing excerpts from the classified “Pentagon Papers,” stolen from the Rand Corporation. The damning revelations about four American Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson) lying about the real reasons for the Vietnam War rattled President Nixon so much that his Attorney General John Mitchell invoked the Espionage Act and a judge ordered the Times to “cease and desist.”
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
Aimed squarely at multiplex audiences (yet still winning the Grand Prix at Cannes), Spike Lee’s powerful and entertaining BlacKkKlansman is quilted together from many pieces. The first piece involves the famous camera-crane, dolly-shot from Gone With the Wind where the screen ends up being filled with thousands of dead and dying Confederate soldiers. Then the clip stops, and the next piece features a white supremacist named Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard (Alec Baldwin) delivering an out-takes diatribe about miscegenation and mongrelization.
