In the midst of the Bohemian days of New York, 1912, a small group of prominent women began gathering in “secret” at Polly’s, a restaurant owned by anarchist Polly Holladay out of the basement of a townhome in Greenwich Village. This group would eventually become one of the precursors for modern feminism, a secret society called Heterodoxy.

COUNCIL BLOG - TAMANTHA BOWMAN

As the store shelves are lined with holiday candy for Valentine’s Day, I can’t help but to think of one of my favorite horror films- Candyman- so I ended up watching all four films within a 36-hour period. Re-watching the 1992 version directed by Bernard Rose on Apple TV, I was pleasantly surprised at how well it held up. I was whisked away back to the early 90s when I had just graduated high school and going to the movie theater was a regular outing. Except instead of being with my friends, I was on the couch with my husband 32 years later.