Hempstead Texas (TX)

She was looking to offset feelings of pain and powerlessness, but Laura Perry turned to the wrong crowd and found partying and ...

Seeking love and answers for the past, Laura embarks on a very challenging journey of her family history. However, the answers she discovers don't grant her ...

Ethan Hawke has made a movie as scandalous as one of the writer's short stories.Why not write something that “a lot, a lot, of people like?” Regina O’Connor asks her daughter, the writer Flannery O’Connor, in the middle of the new biopic Wildcat. The same question might be put to the film itself. It’s not a movie that a lot of people will like. But unlike the author’s mother, I mean that as a high compliment. Director and screenwriter Ethan Hawke has made a film worthy of Flannery O’Connor’s genius.An epigraph from O’Connor’s essay “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” sums up what Wildcat sets out to do: “I’m always irritated by people who imply writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality.” Fittingly, rather than depict the writer’s life from birth to death, Wildcat uses her fiction to discover what’s real, to “get down under things” to the problem of suffering, the limitations of human experience, the desire for goodness, the habits of evil, and, always present, the longing for God.The result is a movie as scandalous as one of O’Connor’s short stories—“shocking to the system,” to borrow her words. Her devotees will applaud it; most of the audience will be left wondering what just clobbered them.After that opening epigraph, Wildcat rolls a fake trailer for a 1950s-style horror flick inspired by O’Connor’s story “The Comforts of Home.” (A mother brings home a wayward, orphaned teen who tries to seduce her grown son. The son attempts to kill the teen, but shoots his own mother instead.) The trailer, starring Laura Linney and Maya Hawke—who also play the roles of Regina and Flannery— sets up expectations ...Continue reading...

We celebrated the closing of Master Club for the school year 2008-2009 with a pizza party. We also said goodbye to Bro. Larry and Sis. Laura Goltiao as they will be relocating to the states in July. We will miss them! If you’re interested in working with a group of energized and great kids see Bro. [...]

Join us on Friday, February 20, 2009 for BUNCO night! 6:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room. $2.00 per person Bring a snack to share.  Drinks will be provided. Childcare is available if you contact Laura Brown ASAP and let her know your needs. Bring a friend for a night of FUN!

Join us on Friday, February 20, 2009 for BUNCO night! 6:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room. $2.00 per person Bring a snack to share.  Drinks will be provided. Childcare is available if you contact Laura Brown ASAP and let her know your needs. Bring a friend for a night of FUN!