Yearly Archive: 2017

In Brief: Criterion Collection’s “Island of Lost Souls” DVD

January 9, 2017

Image courtesy of Criterion Collection What is the Law? Law No More! There are a couple of ways I watch Erle Kenton’s 1932 Island of Lost Souls film classic. One, which is the most successful, is as a snapshot of…
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bela lugosi, charles laughton, criterion collection, devo, erle kenton, H.G. Wells, island of dr. moreau, island of lost souls, john landis, mark mothersbaugh, richard stanley, Uncategorized

Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium

January 3, 2017

My wife won a ‘flash contest’ on Facebook yesterday (meaning you had to pick up your winnings within a couple of hours of notification) for UMKC men’s basketball tickets that evening. I’m not a basketball fan, but the game was…
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Alonzo H. Gentry, architecture, art deco, chrome, downtown, Kansas City, kansas city convention center, municipal auditorium, pendergast, portal, streamline moderne, Uncategorized, Voskamp & Neville