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- Citizen Jane Film Review: Bob and the Monster Bob Forrest is best known for his appearances on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s reality show, Celebrity Rehab, where he tries to lead addicted musicians and actors like Tom Sizemore, Steven Adler, and Shifty Shellshock to sobriety. However, in Keirda Bahruth’s 2011 documentary, Bob and the Monster, we see a different side of Forrest. This movie examines ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: BoCoMo: At Your Service Stephens College junior Jacqui Joyce and recent Stephens graduate Hannah Robins teamed up for the short documentary, “BoCoMo: At Your Service” — an inside look into some of Columbia’s resident restaurants. Shot in the past three weeks, BoCoMo interviewed servers from Ernie’s Café and Steakhouse, Bangkok Gardens, Hooters, CC’s City Broiler and Peking Restaurant. ...
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- Citizen Jane Film Review: Crossroads “Crossroads” is a compilation of five short films about people at crossroads in their lives. Using widely different techniques and plotlines, the first four films in the series each explore themes of female sexuality. The last film, by contrast, takes a look at kindness in a war-torn world. Together, the films create a diverse yet ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Dish For Maya Gallus, waitressing was her first job when she was 15 years old. It was an experience that stayed with her throughout her life. But unlike many waitresses, Maya made a movie about it. She wrote and directed the film Dish, which examines the work life of women at various restaurants in Canada, Paris ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: It Happens to Us and Taking our Bodies Back It is easy to forget, in our age of relative sexual liberation, the plight of the American woman in the ’60s and early ’70s. Abortions could only be obtained illegally and at great risk, and a larger conspiracy of silence regarding women’s health and bodily functions left women ignorant and powerless to practice contraception, visit ...
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- Citizen Jane Film Review: The Work of 1000 “Be a person with a vision and make a commitment to it,” is one of the last things Marion Stoddart says in her documentary film Work of 1000, which details Stoddart’s life and work in healing one of the most polluted rivers in America.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Un Cirque de New York Unapologetic and unabashed like its star Jennifer Miller’s beard, Un Cirque de New York hits like a hammer. From French director Frédérique Pressmann comes a biting documentary capturing a slice of New York City at the turn of the last century. It follows sideshow performer Miller, her troupe of misfits and its 1999 summer ...
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: A Wake Coinciding appropriately with the circus-inspired theme of the Citizen Jane Film Festival, A Wake felt a bit like a freak show. With improv-driven dialogue and insane plot twists, the film centers on the death of an eccentric theatre director and a neurotic troupe of actors who are invited to his Canadian home for a night ...
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: Emerging Voices Just like Citizen Jane is a new voice in the film festival circuit, the short “Emerging Voices” film screening in Charter Auditorium at Stephens College gave directors new and seasoned an opportunity to show off their early works.
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: Somewhere Between China’s one family, one child policy has children getting placed in orphanages at very young ages. On top of being an orphan, being female is another challenge.
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: The Real Princesses Being a princess is not nearly as glamorous as it appears. At least, that’s what the young filmmakers of The Real Princesses sought to prove.
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- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: 44 Stone Public House The Schlafly Pumpkin Ale Goat-Cheesecake at 44 Stone Public House is a unique dessert you won’t find at many other places. It packs a lot of different flavors into one dish.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Addison’s Addison’s Phyllo Brownie is sure to satisfy your chocolate cravings and fill up your stomach quickly.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Bleu Restaurant & Wine Bar Check out the Whiskey Vanilla Creme Brulee at Bleu Restaurant & Wine Bar in Columbia. Mixing sweet vanilla and stout whiskey will give your taste buds a wake-up call.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Flat Branch Pub & Brewing Flat Branch offers the Wild Tiger Float, a twist on the traditional root beer float. This dessert features Tiger Stripe ice cream submerged in Flat Branch’s Oil Change Stout.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Geisha Sushi Bar Geisha Sushi Bar’s banana roll is a strange combination of banana wrapped in wonton, served up with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup over everything.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Las Margaritas Las Margaritas serves the Xango: cheesecake wrapped into a tortilla with some cinnamon sugar sprinkled on the top, all next to a generous serving of vanilla ice cream.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Mexican chocolate at Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream features some unique flavors of ice cream, but the Mexican chocolate wins for a weird combination of chocolate, cinnamon and cayenne.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Murry’s Murry’s Bullwinkle Mousse with Raspberries is an inexpensive and filling dessert with a couple fruity flavors.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Room 38 The Gourmet Funnel Cake at Room 38 gives you a chocolate cake funnel cake topped with chocolate, caramel, French vanilla ice cream and Oreo cookie crumbles.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Sycamore For a light dessert with a hint of fruit, try Sycamore’s blueberry crumb cake served up with Sparky’s vanilla bean ice cream.
- Decadent Desserts of Columbia: Tellers Gallery & Bar The bread pudding with bourbon sauce from Tellers Gallery & Bar provides a sweet, sugary flavor from the bread smothered in a feisty bourbon sauce.
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