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Chicago Tribune
4 hours ago
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Buyers of the former Cedar Lake monastery work to restore grottos, history
Scott and Cheryl Filler have made many discoveries as they delved into restoring the 61-acre former Lourdes Franciscan Friary in Cedar Lake since purchasing the property in January 2024. As they worked to clear the brush and overgrowth that once crowded the grottos this past February, they stumbled upon a large piece of wood covered in a layer of leaves and dirt. 'From the side, it looked like a large railroad tie,' Scott Filler said. 'I was in my tractor about to dump it into the fire but I hesitated and dropped it to the side.' When they rolled it over, they were shocked to find it was a nearly life-sized hand-carved relic. 'There was moss grown over it, so we couldn't see the whole carving at first,' Scott Filler said. 'It was a miracle finding it in a way, and that it didn't end up in the burn pile.' From there, the couple researched and matched the statue with representations of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which depicts a divine sighting of the Virgin Mary chronicled in the 1500s in Central Mexico. The carving shows a woman standing with hands clasped in prayer, in a cloak covered in stars. She is standing on a crescent moon, which symbolizes the Aztec serpent deity Quetzalcoatl, showing that she triumphs over the ancient gods. Another connection scholars have made is Revelations 12:1, which refers to a woman who has 'the moon under her feet.' Currently, they are working on restoring the carving and will display it inside the main building. 'The condition that it's in is crazy, for being out in the elements for who knows how long,' Scott Filler said. 'We still haven't been able to find out about where it came from or who made it. It makes you wonder what else is out there.' Cleaning, preserving and renovating the property at 12915 Parrish Avenue has been the couple's continual labor for the past year and a half. Married for 22 years with a son, the Fillers are Region natives who met at Plaza Lanes bowling alley in Highland when Cheryl, a nurse, was a secretary for a men's league that Scott Filler was a part of. In 1989 Scott Filler started a small renovations business, Apex Construction and Remodeling based out of Highland. As the company grew larger, the couple were regularly on the lookout for new projects and interesting properties. One day while driving on Parrish Avenue, a 'for sale' sign caught Cheryl Filler's eye. The grottos were visible through the trees and rolling hills, and it peaked her interest. 'I thought we should check this out, I had no idea what it is but it looked cool,' Cheryl Filler said. 'Growing up in Lake County, we had no idea this was here.' They put in an offer, but it was promptly declined by the developer who owned it at the time. 'When the developer purchased it from the sisters (Catholic religious organization), he purchased it with the intent of completely demolishing everything and flipping it to another developer to build a subdivision,' Cheryl Filler said. Scott Filler said they had to move on after learning the seller's desired price was too high for them. However, as time passed, the property came back into the couple's lives with the announcement of an auction in 2023. Levin & Associates, in partnership with real estate broker CBRE, facilitated the auction that was set for Dec.19, 2023. The property had a suggested opening bid is $975,000, with the property previously being valued at $3,800,000. The space includes five buildings, wooded areas, walking trails and two ponds. The main building is about 16,944 square feet and dates back to the 1920s when it was a hotel. Several artifacts linger from the land's religious significance including statues, multiple grottos, altars, crosses, and stations of the cross depicting Jesus's last days. The Fillers' findings have ranged from historical photos to artifacts from the property's past. Some of the more personal things discovered has come with their restoration work on the grottos, which are manmade cave-like structures made to house altars. One of them includes a life-sized Jesus statue lying down at rest in a tomb. Another grotto is teepee-shaped to honor the first Native American saint, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, known as 'Lily of the Mohawks.' 'People still sneak in and light candles in them,' Scott Filler said. 'Three weeks ago, they found still-lit candles in the Jesus grotto.' In the winter, he found footprints leading to and from the grotto, where he found someone had lit a candle and wrote their prayers inside a notebook on the altar. The spiral notebooks and loose papers, some weathered but still legible, include the stories, hopes, pleas and struggles of countless people who sought spiritual refuge on the grounds. Their nonprofit, 'Friends of the Friary,' is aimed at restoring the 50-year-old grottos and statues and inspiring community interest. 'We started the Friends of the Friary Facebook page because the town people of Cedar Lake were up in arms that it was sold, and they were worried someone was going to tear everything down,' Cheryl Filler said. 'We wanted to calm their fears.'In honor of the property's spiritual significance, the Fillers opened up the exterior property to the public on Sundays during Lent and on Easter. Cedar Lake Historian Scott Bocock has aided them in research efforts. One of the projects the Fillers have been working on is displaying history of the grounds in the main building, showing 'how the Franciscans of Pulaski, Wisconsin impacted Cedar Lake historically and religiously.' 'I think the next step was to attempt to contact some of those still living who served here and have them write memoirs of their experiences at Cedar Lake,' Bocock said. 'From this perspective, I think this is a great endeavor because it continues to preserve, tell and promote an important part of our local history. It also continues to give community pride and encourage others to visit all of the historical and cultural resources that we have in town. Ultimately, it helps the town to grow in these respects.' Clearing brush from the grottos was just the first step, in which masonry and other reparative work is being done to keep the structures sound. They have also identified several name plaques throughout the property, many of which were Polish families from the South Side of Chicago. 'I hope to track down the names and try and find their great grandchildren,' Scott Filler said. The Fillers have spent all of 2024 and 2025 so far picking up 80 years of garbage and buried rubble inside and outside of the buildings. Some of their less historical discoveries include finding 40 La-Z-Boy chairs in the main building's attic, believed to be hoarded by former friars. They also found that at some point in its vacancy, individuals had broken into the main building and sprayed fire extinguishers in many of the rooms. On top of uncovering what is already there, the Fillers also procured other pieces of Region history to add into the mix. 'We bought pews from Salem Methodist Church in Hebron they were going to tear down; they're about 120 years old,' Cheryl Filler said. The chapel itself is a large open room with a raised platform with arched windows that overlook the pond. While much of the site's roots are in Catholicism, the Fillers want the monastery site to draw people of all backgrounds, beliefs and ages. 'For me, my mission is to let kids come out here,' Scott Filler said. 'I was a Boy Scout, and I'd love to get the Boy Scouts or other youth groups here. To teach a kid to fish is an amazing feeling, seeing their faces light up.' 'I'd love to help them get merit badges, go fishing or learn how to build a fire or spend a night camping,' Cheryl Filler added. 'It's all here, and no one knows that this place exists.' Scott Filler said he would like to see the exterior be open to the public in some form and Cheryl Filler expressed wanting to create a community garden and keep bees in an apiary. 'This quiet place is crammed right in the middle town, but sitting here right now, you wouldn't know it,' Scott Filler said. The Fillers have a variety of thoughts and dreams about what they'd like to do with the property that would make for some sort of destination spot or community hub. However, because they're still working with the town of Cedar Lake and are in early planning stages, no definite plans have been made yet. The Fillers have gone before town officials this past spring to present a concept plan to the Cedar Lake Planning Commission, which included restoring the chapel to be in use, but no definite decisions have been made. 'People have come and thanked us for saving the property,' Scott Filler said. 'We've had people who said they prayed for someone to take it over who would preserve it and care for it. They say you can't stop progress, but maybe you can stop 61 acres of progress in Lake County.' Bocock said, in a way, the Fillers have been an answer to Cedar Lake residents' prayers. 'I think that those of the community and its leaders should be excited about what is happening at the former friary site because, at the time that the Franciscans sold the property, many expressed concern that we'd lose the beauty of the area if it was developed for housing,' Bocock said. 'Many visitors have left their prayers written on various scraps of paper in the grotto in hopes that it would be saved. With all of the current building going on in town, it has been felt that we're losing more of our natural resources. I think a very serene and picturesque spot is being saved.' For more information, visit the Facebook group 'Friends of the Friary.' For those curious to see the grounds, the Fillers have partnered with Humane Indiana to host public events. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 21, Humane Indiana will host 'Nocturnal Nature Night' at the former friary grounds at 12921 Parrish Ave. in Cedar Lake. There will be guided night hikes with night vision goggles to see owls, bats and other nocturnal creatures, as well as visiting ambassador animals, demonstrations, crafts and more. It is open to the public and the cost will be $10 per car, with more information to be found on
New York Post
14-05-2025
- Business
- New York Post
‘Big, beautiful' bill battle ignores the real issue: crippling US debt
As the 'big, beautiful' bill moves through Congress, one legitimate concern is the future course of federal borrowing — except that Washington's standard ways of looking at taxation and spending do more to confuse than clarify the key issues. Confusion that hides the truth that Republicans probably aren't cutting Uncle Sam's outlays as much as they should. Yes, you'll hear endless wailing about the bill's 'savage spending cuts' in order to 'pay for' tax cuts 'for the rich,' even as it supposedly accelerates Uncle Sam's borrowing — but claims rely exclusively on how all this gets measured. For starters: Most of the 'cost' of the bill's tax cuts, as set this week by the House Ways and Means Committee, is for simply avoiding economy-crushing tax hikes. That is: The measure extends the 2017 Trump tax cuts, which officially are set to expire this year — slamming Americans of all incomes as well as hitting businesses large and small, and likely pushing the country into recession just as it began booming after the 2017 rates went into effect. The truly new tax cuts here are the ones Trump campaigned on: no tax on tips (which Kamala Harris said she'd do, too), no tax on overtime pay and so on — none of it a 'tax cut for the rich.' Meanwhile, the changes to spending under the 'big, beautiful' bill aren't cuts as normal people would count them. Consider: As things stand, the Congressional Budget Office projects that over the next decade Uncle Sam will spend $89.3 trillion. With the hated 'cuts', that figure drops to . . . $88.1 trillion. In yearly terms, that's 'only' a 40% increase over the gigantic $7 trillion 2024 outlay, instead of a 50% rise. That is, the feds will be on track to spend way more than they did last year, just not quite as much more. Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Democrats' rhetoric paints this as yielding a 'Mad Max' wasteland, plunging America into a fiery, brutal, all-against-all competition over resources and services stretched to the uttermost breaking point . . . visions straight out of Revelations. Even as the real danger, a hair more than $36 trillion in new debt, goes ignored. All because vast spending hikes (as well as the tax-cut expirations) are baked into the budget 'baseline' — and the Republicans are barely skimming off the top of that growth. Partly because so much of the media, and even the 'experts,' accept all the weeping and wailing as fact. The US government needs to slow the growth in spending dramatically to lighten its debt burden; the GOP bill doesn't do that, but the Democratic agenda would only make things worse. And all the crying comes from pols more worried about their pork barrels than the fiscal fate of the nation.
CBS News
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Renowned dance theater hosts free class for Altadena seniors
Out of all the parts that made 76-year-old Vivien Fortunaso fall in love with her Altadena home, the garden was the one that she was most proud of. The Australia native chose Atladena as her permanent home in 1991 after a short stint in London. "Really friendly people," she said. "It's a very, very diverse community, which is why we like Altadena. She and her partner just finished a remodel with a dream kitchen overlooking the tranquil garden and the trail. "This became a really special place of us," Fortunaso said. "It's really hard to lose it." Fortunaso said that life has been a blur ever since the Eaton Fire destroyed their beloved home — at least, until recently. A few weeks ago, the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater invited Fortunaso and several other seniors who lost their homes to a free dance class. "Mr. Ailey believed dance came from the people and it should be given back to the people," teacher Aaron Thomas said. Ailey is known as the father of African American modern dance. He used movement to express his history of growing up poor in the Deep South. "We're hoping to take the personal stories for all of our seniors and friends who join us, and be able to take those experiences and turn it into something beautiful," Thomas said. The class began with a simple, seated warmup. Fortunaso reunited with her neighbor as they followed each movement carefully. The group focused on the theme of resilience, using word association to create special movements. They also learned some choreography from Ailey's ballet masterpiece, Revelations, which explores grief, joy and hope. During the exercise, Fortunaso unexpectedly began to cry after the class gave her the opportunity and permission to not only heal but to feel. "Hoping to have some fun, to be honest with you, and a distraction," she said. "This just released my sadness and my loss." The unforgettable, therapeutic experience erased the blur surrounding her life since the fire. "I think I'm going to more of it," Fortunaso said. "I think I'm going to go home and dance."
Los Angeles Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Why Alvin Ailey's new ‘Sacred Songs' is a homecoming: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 'Sacred Songs' is a homecoming of sorts. It was initially conceived to celebrate the 60th anniversary of 'Revelations,' the seminal masterpiece that closes every Ailey show. ' 'Revelations' is a history lesson through dance that evades antiquity, a timeless reminder of how far we've come, and how far we have to go,' wrote critic Lauren Warnecke. 'Technically demanding, choreographically sound and aesthetically magnificent, … it's the closest we get in dance to a permanent exhibit.' Matthew Rushing, the company's interim artistic director who choreographed 'Sacred Songs,' was intrigued by the chapter in Jennifer Dunning's 1996 book 'Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance' that detailed the classic's initial form. 'It was over an hour long and with live musicians and singers on stage,' he told The Times. 'But when it came time to take it on tour, he decided to condense it by removing half of the songs.' Rushing perused the list of omitted 'Revelations' songs and collaborated with composer Du'Bois A'Keen to reimagine this left-out collection of spirituals for a new piece. 'These spirituals have such power and history, but some of them are extremely well known and important to a lot of people,' he said. 'We wanted to present them in a fresh way. We spent two weeks brainstorming with musicians at the 92nd Street Y in New York, where 'Revelations' premiered in 1960. It was amazing to be in that room, creating sounds to honor the original.' Though the debut of 'Sacred Songs' was delayed by the pandemic, the piece made its world premiere last year at New York City Center as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibit 'Edges of Ailey' — complete with instrumentalists and a chorus on stage. Its music fuses jazz, African drums, gospel and hip-hop, and it went over so well that the suite was recently released as an album. The company will perform Rushing's 'Sacred Songs' as part of its seven shows at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (April 2 to 6) — marking its Los Angeles premiere, a notable milestone for the L.A. native. While the dancers pays homage to Ailey and 'Revelations,' Rushing personally dedicates the song 'Troubles Troubling,' a reimagining of 'Troubles of This World,' to his late mother, Barbara DeLoach, who passed away as he was choreographing the piece. 'One of the omitted 'Revelations' songs happens to be about someone transitioning; the lyrics say, 'I'm going home to live with God,' ' said Rushing. 'I was able to choreograph this section as a way of grieving, and it's been the most amazing experience to watch that special part, sometimes with laughter or tears.' I'm Ashley Lee, and I'm looking forward to witnessing this new Ailey creation. I'm with my fellow Times staff writer Jessica Gelt to bring you more arts and culture news and things to do: 'Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall'When the hip-hop group released 'Black Sunday' in 1993, The Times' review noted it 'boasts even sharper insights, crisper beats and a more tantalizingly ominous tone' than their debut album. Last year, the icons reimagined this masterpiece release with the London Symphony Orchestra — yes, another 'Simpsons' joke predicted the future — and the resulting collaboration, conducted and arranged by Troy Miller, debuts stateside via a filmed performance. It's playing in theaters throughout L.A. on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, ahead of the live album's release on June 6. 'Multiple Loads'Nicholas Pilapil's last play, 'God Will Do the Rest,' had me laughing, crying and returning for a second viewing. His new stage show centers on two men in L.A. who fall in and out of love over the course of a decade. Playwrights' Arena is presenting a reading as part of its New Pages Lab, a series designed for playwrights to hear their work with an audience. George Salazar and Adrián González star in the reading, directed by Shinshin Yuder Tsai. Admission is free with online RSVP. Sunday, 1 p.m. Art of Acting Studio, 1017 N. Orange Drive, L.A. 'Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs''Lanthimos' worlds operate like a transparent watch exposed straight through to the gears,' wrote Times film critic Amy Nicholson of the filmmaker's 2024 movie 'Kinds of Kindness.' 'The fascination comes from seeing how each piece of the machine pressures the others to behave. His characters speak their minds without apology.' Starting Saturday, the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter exhibits his still photography for the first time, featuring images from his recent books: 'i shall sing these songs beautifully,' made during the filming of 'Kinds of Kindness' and published by Mack; and 'Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken,' shot during the making of his 2023 hit 'Poor Things' and published by Void. The exhibition is on view through May 24. MACK + Webber at 939, 939 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles. — Ashley Lee FRIDAY🎸🎭 Adobe Punk Sparks fly as a 1980s musical trio squatting in an old Bell Gardens adobe home power through rehearsal in this punk rock musical written and directed by Gabriel Garza and Theresa Chavez.⏰ Through April 13. Margo Albert Theatre, Plaza de la Raza, 3540 N. Mission Road. 🎭 Into the Woods Musical Theatre West presents Stephen Sondheim's fairy-tale-fueled musical.⏰ Through April 13. Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. 🎼 🎻 Kerson Leong The Canadian violinist performs a dynamic program of sonatas by Poulenc, Fauré, Boulanger and Franck. Leong will also lead a master class at 11 a.m. Saturday.⏰ 7 p.m. Colburn School, 200 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 🎸 Papa Roach/Rise Against The bands team up for the Rise of the Roach tour.⏰ 7 p.m. Kia Forum, 3900 .W Manchester Blvd., Inglewood. SATURDAY🎸 Franz Ferdinand The Scottish rockers reach L.A. in the Human Fear tour.⏰ 7 p.m. The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd. 🎭 Jane Eyre Geoff Elliott directs Elizabeth Williamson's adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. ⏰ Through April 20. A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. 💃 A Jewish Child's Story Choreographer Louise Reichlin's autobiographical dance multimedia work reflects on her early dreams as the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants.⏰ 1:30 p.m. Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave. 🎼 Nowruz: The Concert — Return of the MastersThe Pacific Symphony and Farhang Foundation's annual celebration includes the Pournazeri Trio — Kaykhosro, Tahmoures and Sohrab Pournazeri.⏰ 8 p.m. Segerstrom Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 🪘🎵 Orquesta Akokán The Havana jazz ensemble provides a 21st century take on Cuban mambo.⏰ 8 p.m. The United Theater on Broadway, 929 S. Broadway, downtown L.A. 🎭 🎵 El Otro Oz Salsa, merengue, Mexican folk songs and Dora, 'a contemporary Latiné teenager,' take center stage in this bilingual musical inspired by 'The Wizard of Oz.'⏰ Through April 13. Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. SUNDAY🎭 🎵 Adanza: Show Me Your Dreams A musical adventure featuring juggling, unicycles, breakdancing, animation, bubbles, glow sticks, drumming, aerial artists and more.⏰ 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Friday; 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday. The Eastwood, 1089 N. Oxford Ave. 🎭 Aristotle/Alexander The Greek philosopher engages in an intellectual battle of wits with his star pupil in a new play written and directed by Alex Lyras.⏰ 3 p.m. Sundays; 8 p.m. Saturdays, through May 4. Company of Angels, 1350 San Pablo St. 🎼 🎹 Leif Ove Andsnes The Norwegian pianist performs Grieg's Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7; Geirr Tveitt's Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 129, 'Sonata Etere'; and Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28.⏰ 3 p.m. Soka Performing Arts Center, Soka University, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo. 🎨 Carole Caroompas 'Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour' is a series of works created by the feminist artist between 1997 and 2001, inspired by Emily Brontë's 19th century novel 'Wuthering Heights.'⏰ 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, through July 13. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. 🎼 Hear Now Music Festival: Voices Raised The 14th annual event features three programs of new music by contemporary Los Angeles composers: Electroacoustic with Vocal (co-presented with People Inside Electronics), Brightwork Ensemble, David Cubek, conductor HEX and Fahad Siadat, director; Instrumental Chamber Music (April 13); and Vocal Chamber Music (May 18). ⏰ 5 p.m. 2220 Arts + Archives, 2200 Beverly Blvd. 📺 Neo-Japonism: Samurai and Beyond Japanese broadcaster NHK showcases its use of technology in the presentation of its annual 'Taiga' historical dramas.⏰ 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday; 11 a.m-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, through Sept. 1. Japan House, Ovation Hollywood, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. 🎨 Su Yu-Xin The L.A.-based artist discusses materiality, the intersection of art and science, and the ways color shapes our understanding of the world with OCMA CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman.⏰ 3 p.m. Orange County Museum of Art, 3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa. A 90-year-old mystery was solved earlier this year when the Ebell of Los Angeles discovered that a series of frescoes painted by revered female muralist Maxine Albro in 1933 still exist beneath more than nine layers of paint in the center's north loggia. The frescoes were commissioned by the Ebell's president in 1933 and became a flash point for controversy, with many members of the prominent women's club complaining that they were too modern and did not fit with the aesthetic of the garden. The artworks were thought to have been destroyed in 1945, so it was with great joy that the Ebell discovered they had only been painted over and can be restored when the moment is right. Stephen Laughton's play, 'One Jewish Boy,' which premiered in London in 2018, is making its West Coast debut in an Echo Theater Company production at Atwater Village Theatre. The show explores the relationship between a young Jewish man and his mixed-race wife. It begins at a point of crisis in their marriage and unspools back to their first meeting in Ibiza many years ago. 'The debate between them is handled with admirable complexity, but the characters don't have enough room to develop beyond the central argument of the play,' writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty in his review. Ron Sossi, founder of L.A.'s Odyssey Theatre, died March 19 of congestive heart failure at age 85. Sossi was revered in the local theater community and known for his boundary-pushing experimentation and willingness to take big swings and risks when it came to the stage. Read Sossi's obituary by staff writer Cerys Davies, here. Joe Goode, the Los Angeles-based visual artist best known for his milk bottle paintings and his ties to the Light and Space movement, has died. He was 87. In an appreciation, Times Art Critic Christopher Knight writes, 'In the 1960s, Goode's work was uncomfortably tagged as Pop art. It shared some attributes of paintings by Ed Ruscha, his childhood friend from Oklahoma City, as well as Southern California artists as diverse as John Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman and Vija Celmins. But those artists approached representational imagery in a wide variety of ways. As his career developed over the next five decades, and as art movements began to unravel as a way to characterize art, the term fell away.' Ten Los Angeles-based contemporary arts institutions got a boost Friday when the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced its first Infinite Expansion Grants, which support upcoming projects that present, according to a news release, 'thought provoking and compelling work.' These new grants are a departure from previous years when the foundation supported more grantees with less money. By choosing only 10 organizations this time around, the foundation handed out larger grants ranging from $32,000 to $45,000. The current crop of grantees are: 18th Street Arts Center, the Brick, CalArts REDCAT, Fulcrum Arts/home LA, Future Roots/Canary Test, Human Resources, JOAN, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Pieter Performance Space, and Self-Help Graphics & Art. The title 'Infinite Expansion' is derived from one of Kelley's large drawings that features a small landscape at its center with psychedelic wood-grain patterns radiating outward. 'In a nod to the title, these grants emphasize the resounding impact that arts organizations and artists make in the communities they build and the world at large,' the foundation wrote in its announcement. — Jessica Gelt A gorgeous read on outgoing Loewe fashion house head Jonathan Anderson, and 'his holistic approach to design, seamlessly fusing together art, fashion, poetry, architecture, and interior design.'
South China Morning Post
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Revelations director Yeon Sang-ho on his new Netflix movie and how desire shapes beliefs
By Baek Byung-yeul Advertisement Renowned for exploring complex social issues in productions such as Train to Busan and Hellbound, director Yeon Sang-ho returns with the Netflix movie Revelations. The movie delves into the dangerous consequences of selective belief in contemporary society. 'Nowadays, people only want to see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. That's why things like this are happening in Korea right now,' Yeon said in an interview this week. 'Coincidentally, the timing of Revelations coming out makes me feel that this work was born from this era.' Revelations tells the story of pastor Sung Min-chan (Ryu Jun-yeol), who believes he is acting on divine revelation to punish an ex-convict in a missing-person case, and detective Lee Yeon-hui (Shin Hyun-been), who is haunted by her deceased sibling's visions as she investigates the same case.
