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...When my sister was ten, she shocked and dismayed me by asking for a Janet Jackson album for Christmas. I took her hip-hop leanings as a decisive divergence from my way of life. Ever-proactive in the department of my sister's cultural development, I was instantly on the job, and on Christmas morning she unwrapped a new Janet Jackson CD and a new 90-minute mix tape from me, titled "Girls with Guitars." Within a few months, the mix tape had triumphed, and she was passing feminist folk music along to her friends--kind of scary...
...hear plenty. Like Anywhere But Here, it's a mother-daughter tale, with an irresponsible, impulsive mom dragging her more mature, grounded daughter across the country. But Tumbleweeds succeeds where most mother-daughter sagas wimp out, because every moment seethes with vitality and honesty and excellent acting by leads Janet McTeer and Kimberly J. Brown make this a film to savor...
Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) is an energetic, itinerant Southern woman; she's been married three times, and when her relationships end, she simply packs up moves herself and her daughter elsewhere. Twelve-year-old Ava is less than thrilled when her mom plucks her from life in West Virginia and takes her across the country to Starlight Beach, Calif.; Ava wants a real home and stability, and for her mom to meet the right man and finally settle down. Mary Jo moves herself and Ava in with Jack (Gavin O'Connor), a seemingly nice trucker; Ava makes friends...
...operation since 1982, Kingston Gallery is a non-profit artist-run cooperative exhibiting work of all media. Situated in close proximity to such prominent commercial galleries as Bernard Toale, Clifford-Smith and Genovese/Sullivan, it holds its own with substantive shows such as November's solo exhibition of Janet Hansen Kawada's powerful, near-animate creations of felt, wool and wire...
Never let it be said that Janet Reno can't make up her mind. After an interminable interagency debate, the attorney general Friday indicted former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on espionage charges. What's surprising isn't the indictment - after all, we've known the story for nine months now - it's the time it took. So why did it take Reno so long to come to a decision? She was caught between the FBI, which was urging her to charge Lee with mishandling classified information and violating the Atomic Energy Act, and her own prosecutors...