Day: January 21, 2016

• This is the struggle now?

  I am sure that Brian Kamanzi – a Cape Town-based Masters student in Electrical Engineering, evidently – is a perfectly nice chap, and means well in wanting to add his voice to the current debate about student fees in South Africa and free higher education. His view or hope or belief or whatever is that, […]

  Glen Fisher

  January 21, 2016

  Writing Wordshop

  #FeesMustFall, Brian Kamanzi, cliche, higher education South Africa, political jargon, student protests

• Queen Street West, # 7

  Glen Fisher

  January 21, 2016

  Photography

  images of Queen Street West, Queen St. West., Toronto, Toronto images, Toronto photos, Toronto pictures

• ‘Brooklyn’ distilled

  

  It’s the ‘fifties again, folks – like ‘Carol’ which I’ve just reviewed, a nostalgic look in the rearview mirror. Irish girl leaves poverty and the Old Country to find a new life and love in America – after a suitable quantum of struggle, of course. Beautifully shot – but whereas the visuals in ‘Carol’ are […]

  Glen Fisher

  January 21, 2016

  Writing Wordshop

  ‘Brooklyn’, Emory Cohen, film reviews, John Crowley, Saoirse Ronan