NewScreen Tuesday nights continue to attract nice sized groups (although a few of you have gone AWOL, it seems…) so the plan is to stick with this new night for a while.

“Women in charge” emerged as the theme for tonight’s program. Not only because the protagonist in Woman at War (wonderfully portrayed by Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) was a take-no-prisoners, environmental activist force to be reckoned with, but our short feature had already set the scene: Be a Lady They Said, directed by Paul McLean, and narrated by Cynthia Nixon, lays out a whole gamut of mixed signals that have been directed at women since, well, forever. The viral video has provoked a screaming match on line. Taken down, put back up, etc. Thought provoking stuff.

On the most mundane of notes (not really!), the banana-ripening time was perfect this week! Not a crumb survived. Hashtag yummyloaf ))