6/23/21 – Dawn recently lost her husband and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An argument with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to support her mother on the path toward recovery and healing. A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Q-tips say: Paper Spiders finds a way to open our eyes and our hearts to better comprehend the need for education, services, and neighbors to look out for one another.
6/22/21 – To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Q-tips say: Yes, see it. Nice story that includes the youngsters & their relationship with the couple who care for them & others. Mrs. Q says: When the critics rate it low, usually the audience likes it. The critics are not always right. Actors: Dennis Quaid & Bruce McGill.
Q – Tips say: First time visit: Decided to try Pinstripes on the way home from the Chgo. Botanical Gardens. Nice place that offers outdoor/indoor eating & bowling & bocce Ball. The music is a tad loud in some areas, but you can find a table inside or outdoors with quieter seating.
Drinks were ok. We shared the complimentary bread – which was good with pesto oil on the side. Mrs. Q had the Turkey Sandwich & a cup of the Chicken Dumpling soup. The Mr. had Sal’s Salami Sandwich & a cup of Chicken Dumpling Soup. Sandwiches are big, each Q took 1/2 of a sandwich home.
Everything was ok but we don’t think we would make a special trip to eat at Pinstripes unless we are in the neighborhood. Did not ask if we could order from the Dinner menu while it was a late Lunch Menu visit.
Q-tips say: YES see it! Had a great time outside walking around, enjoying the sites. It is FREE but you have to pay for parking in their own parking lot. Fee is “per car.” Read next year the Fee will be “per person.” You must register on line to arrange for your time/visit.
There is a “tram” for a small fee & a fee to visit the “Train Exhibit.”
Make sure you visit the Plant Science Bldg. Some interactive exhibits & a lot of informative information regarding where the seeds came from, how they analyze, examine & store the seeds.
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6/22/21 – An eccentric and smooth-talking social climber who seems to have everyone in Washington, D.C., wrapped around his finger is investigated after his wealthy, well-connected and much older wife turns up dead in their home.
Q-tips say: If you enjoys movies of con-men, this might be the movie for you.
Mrs. Q says: Mediocre at best. (spoiler alert) – He gets was he deserves at the end – 50 years in prison.
6/21 – The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
6/18/21- Netflix – Nice movie since Father’s Day is around the corner.
Q-tips say: See it, we enjoyed it. Some critics did not like it. that in itself might warrant two thumbs up. They are not always right.
A widowed dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. The beginning is devoted to a lot of familiar scenarios and gags, such as Matt being ill-prepared for mechanics of caring for a baby (some gross—but completely natural—stuff involving diapers and some bickering about how to attach a car seat), trying to juggle being a new father and having a career (Paul Reiser is amusing as Matt’s absent-minded but basically sympathetic boss), and some arguments with Marian about moving from Boston back home to Minnesota. were she and Matt’s mother live. The result is a sweet and tender, charming and funny, and sad and surprisingly thoughtful tale about the many rewards and multiple, unexpected difficulties of parenthood—and especially being a single parent.
6/13/21 – 639 Blackhawk Dr. Westmont, IL 60559,(630) 789-1981 bohemiancrystal.net
Met long time friends for a visit at their house & enjoyed munchies & a drink. Then went to the Lizzadro Museum and then had a leisure drive thru Mt. Carmel Cemetery and dined at Bohemian Crystal – a modern European Czech rest.
Q-tips say: Great visit with wonderful long time friends. Enjoyed the Museum & Dinner.
Q’s had: Lamb and a Czech beer& Liver dumpling soup and Apricot Kolacky for dessert, which we took home.
Lamb shoulder with potato dumplings
Liver Dumpling soup
Decided to take our Apricot Kolacky dessert home
Our friends had, if I remember correctly, the Breaded Pork Tenderloin – a Czech beer & a white wine. The Tenderloin was enough for two meals.
Q-tips say: After a lovely visit with long time friends eating munchies & a drink, we were off to the Lizzadro Museum and then a drive thru the cemetery. Decided not to walk due to the weather being quite hot. Then off to Bohemian Crystal for dinner.
Mrs. Q says: Ever wonder where many of the gangsters/mobsters of yesterday are buried? Here. Mount Carmel Cemetery is also the final resting place of numerous local organized crime figures, the most notorious of these being Al Capone. Most – if not all – of the criminals buried at Mount Carmel were denied the blessing of a funeral in the Catholic Church. Out of necessity, most services were held in a morgue, funeral parlor or at graveside. Al Capone and his two brothers; Dean O’Banion, Hymie Weiss, the Terrible Genna Brothers, Vincent “The Schemer” Drucci, Michael Merlo, Frank Nitti, Sam Giancana and the graves of some of the undertakers who buried them.
He was originally buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago. In 1950, Capone’s remains, along with those of his father, Gabriele, and brother, Salvatore, were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Al Capone’s Grave Site
“Machine Gun” Jack McGurn – Capone associate & owner of the Green Mill
While Mount Carmel is renowned as one of the largest and most impressive Catholic cemeteries in Chicago, located at its center is the “jewel in the cemetery’s crown” – the exquisitely beautiful Mausoleum of the Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago.
This beautiful mausoleum required seven years to build and was completed in 1912. It has a stair-stepped pyramidal roof surmounted by a statue of the Archangel Gabriel, sounding his trumpet at the moment of the final resurrection.
Above the door is the Latin, “RESURRECTURIS,” which means “for those who will rise again.”
The mausoleum was designed as a Romanesque building with a domed Romanesque Classical chapel inside, complete with altar, religious murals, clerestory windows providing light and the crypts flanking the altar on either side. The papal and U.S. flags also flank the altar.
Archbishop James Edward Quigley, who commissioned the mausoleum, brought in one of the fore most religious architects of the day, Aristide Leonori, noted for his 1899 design of the Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C.
For the mausoleum’s chapel interior, Leonori generously incorporated marble and mosaics to give the chapel a Roman look while still referencing Celtic, Nordic and Slavic saints in the design. This reflected the archdiocese’s many ethnic groups and national churches.
The most recent interment was Cardinal Joseph Bernard in after his death in 1996 from liver and pancreatic cancer.
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