In The New York Times, Stuart Elliott’s advertising column today looks at “mainstream advertisers starting to use nontraditional media,” including a mention of indieWIRE as a site where ads were placed.
After nearly 3 weeks in California, and a few days off in “The 909”, its time to get back to blogging (both reading and writing). The Guardian’s essential film coverage recently included Blogwatch, a special section highlighting the best film blogs:
If you want to track upcoming productions or releases, a good place to start is with the blogging community at Indiewire.com (http://blogs.indiewire.com) where producers such as Camera Planet’s Steve Rosenbaum wax lyrical about public access, and festival programmers, sales agents and film journalists rave about new independent movies as soon as they’re previewed.
Finishing up teaching duties at The New School on Friday kept me from making it to La Quinta, CA (in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs) for the Saturday morning surprise party for Louise Neeley (photo from The Desert Sun), aka “Aunt Louise” (she is actually my late grandmother’s sister, on my Dad’s side). The Palm Springs paper, The Desert Sun, reported on the festivities in today’s edition:
About 100 friends, relatives and public officials showed up to help Neeley, the director of the La Quinta Museum, celebrate her 80th birthday at the La Quinta Community Center…
Neeley is known around the community not only through the museum but also because she has been actively contributing to the community for years. Since retiring in 1985 from her teaching post at Westside Elementary School in Thermal, Neeley has been a commissioner on the Riverside County Historical Commission, a member of the county’s ad-hoc committee to save the 1907 two-room Indio School House and served on the board of the La Quinta Historical Society, to name a few of her activities.
An informative Desert Sun article from earlier this year offers more details on Aunt Louise growing up in La Quinta after family moved to the area from Mexico, settling in the Valley where most of my family, and I, grew up and lived.
Sadly, good friend Mark Rabinowitz’ mother passed away earlier this week. As you can see from today’s New York Times, Joanne Grant was an accomplished writer and activist. On a more personal note, she was also an key supporter back in the earliest days of iLINE and indieWIRE; that will always mean a lot.
Joanne Grant, an activist who documented the grassroots efforts behind the civil rights movement through her journalism, filmmaking and commentary, died on Sunday…Ms. Grant wrote “Black Protest”, a documentary analysis of black resistance from 1619 on. One of the first books to trace the origins of the civil rights movement, it remains required reading in many classes on African-American history.
A former assistant to W. E. B. DuBois, Ms. Grant sought to profile the struggle for civil rights through its community leaders. Her award-winning documentary film “Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker” (1981), about an unsung matriarch of the civil rights movement, was broadcast nationally on PBS. She later wrote “Ella Baker: Freedom Bound”, a biography. In “Confrontation on Campus”, she described sit-ins at Columbia University and elsewhere.
Mindy Bond and Raphie Frank ask me questions, on Gothamist today…
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