Fredrika and her husband, James, are growing nearly 60 different types of vegetables, fruits and berries. Author: Jeff Zevely (Reporter) Updated: 2:33 PM PDT April 9, 2021
SAN DIEGO You don t have to live on a huge piece of land to grow your own food and maintain a successful homestead. In this Zevely Zone, I went to Talmadge to check in on the Zero Waste Family . Welcome back one year later, Fredrika Syren said. Last year, the family of five made a pandemic pledge to live off the land in Talmadge. Fredrika and her husband, James, are growing nearly 60 different types of vegetables, fruits and berries.
Tony Hale Comedy ‘Eat Wheaties!’ Nabbed by Screen Media for April Release
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Screen Media is making the Tony Hale comedy “Eat Wheaties!” a part of its balanced breakfast and has acquired the U.S. rights to the film. The distributor is planning a release in theaters and on demand April 30.
“Eat Wheaties!” is directed by Scott Abramovitch and stars Hale as Sid Straw, a man who desperately tries to prove that he knows a celebrity in this case, Elizabeth Banks only for his creepy messages to her to go viral and get him banned from his college reunion. With his life at a crossroads, he sets out to rediscover the best version of himself and hires an inexperienced lawyer to help clear his name.
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“COVID kicked everything off the rails,” singer-songwriter
Kenny Loggins says of the pandemic restrictions that brought his live performance career to a screeching halt. “I’m using it as rehearsal for retirement. I haven’t really done much of anything.”
Understated words from a musician who is writing his memoirs, starting his own Higher Vision record label, putting together another album of children’s lullabies, preparing to host his own radio show, plus he has signed on to do a Christmas tour later this year if the pandemic subsides.
Oh, and let’s not forget his virtual debut of a new song, “The Great Adventure,” Thursday morning at 10 a.m. in a collaborative project with the San Diego Zoo Kids TV channel.
His newest documentary film,
MLK/FBI, releases today and has already received critical praise and been named Best Documentary at the San Diego International Film Festival.
Pollard sat down for a virtual interview to talk about his newest work, the joys of documentary filmmaking, Hollywood mythmaking, and what history can tell us about our present.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
HUTCHINSON: You ve worked with Spike Lee on some of his narrative projects yet still do most of your work in documentaries. Is that form what you re most passionate about?
POLLARD: Yeah, I am. I mean, it s sort of ironic. Initially, when I got into the business many, many years ago, I wanted to be a feature film editor of narrative films, because I had grown up watching lots of narrative films. So that was my goal. But I was very fortunate that, in retrospect, at the end of it, who I first worked with as an apprentice editor, he introduced me to the world of documentaries. And I