Walk into Wendy Pepper’s house any day of the week, and if she’s not being a mom to her second-grader, she’s usually in the studio working. Local kids are down there learning to cut patterns and sew buttonholes. With four or five projects happening at once, Wendy works best in barely controlled chaos. But up
I start my day walking with my friends. We talk about the dreams we had the night before and the plans we’ve made for the day to come. I find this ritual both invigorating and comforting. The camaraderie is as dependable as the weather is fickle. Creativity is a mercurial cohort, and I find that
Northern Virginia | June/July-2006 1978, Director Ron Maxwell After laughter and sniffles were heard in all the right places during the April 8 screening of this forgotten WW2 fable, the credits rolled and the house lights came up. An audience member thanked Ron Maxwell, the filmmaker, then asked him to contrast today’s audience with viewers’ reactions back
Northern Virginia | June/July-2006 Crazy Like a Fox Screens at Cannes and alongside Cruise With a lifetime of study and professional credits in writing, directing and composing music, Richard Squires knew the score. “Two million dollars is not a lot of money,” he told Piedmont Film Festival goers in Warrenton, in April (see story, next page). Not
The Advocate | January 31-2006 The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami Diana Souhami’s lesbian biographies just keep getting better. Another American couple of glamorous Left Bank artists enters the Pantheon in Wild Girls, a read so light, fast and fun that you forget it’s nonfiction with footnotes. And the best
The Advocate | June 7-2005 Jeanette Winterson speaks out on sex, America’s religious fanaticism, and her new novel, Lighthousekeeping Raised in poverty, religious fanaticism and intolerance, Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 and burst on the literary scene 20 years ago with her award-winning autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit—the tale of a lesbian
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