Give Kids A Reason To Want To Stay In School
17 May 2008, 22:10 No comments
Being a high school freshman is intimidating, even if there are only 150 students in the school.
When there are more than 1,600, it can be downright scary.
That’s one reason we endorse the plan to require first-year students at Rochester Century High School to participate in a sport, activity or club of some kind. Not all [...]
Clooneys Leatherheads mildly funny mostly fluff
16 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
However, you’ll find more satisfaction by turning on
the Turner Classic Movies channel. “Leatherheads”
is a lazily written pastiche coasting on the superficial
qualities of its leads, who are the film’s only selling
point. Screenwriters Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly
don’t carefully craft characters, they dilly-dally with
them, sketching them broadly and skimping on the details.
Which means we have three wafer-thin [...]
Movie review Leatherheads
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Slapstick meets screwball in “Leatherheads,” an amiable valentine to an era of breakneck repartee, bathtub booze and anything-goes gridiron warfare.The setting is 1925 Duluth, Minn., home base of the Bulldogs, a rough-and-ready pro football team in an era when pay was low, glamour was nil and rulebooks were rarely consulted. Dodge Connolly (George Clooney), the [...]
Movie review Leatherheads
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Slapstick meets screwball in “Leatherheads,” an amiable valentine to an era of breakneck repartee, bathtub booze and anything-goes gridiron warfare.The setting is 1925 Duluth, Minn., home base of the Bulldogs, a rough-and-ready pro football team in an era when pay was low, glamour was nil and rulebooks were rarely consulted. Dodge Connolly (George Clooney), the [...]
Street photographers fear for their art amid climate of suspicion
28 March 2008, 16:04 No comments
Matt Stuart photographs the unscripted drama of the London streets. Entirely
spontaneous, his pictures are made possible by a combination of instinct,
cunning and happy coincidence, revealing the beauty and significance of the
everyday - what the rest of us see but don’t notice, moments that vanish
faster than the blink of an eye.
For his efforts, Stuart has picked [...]
SemiPro
2 March 2008, 01:01 No comments
Will Ferrell, at the best of times, is an acquired taste. The blockbusting
comedian and headlining star of Anchorman and Talladega Nights regularly
bludgeons his audience into submissive giggles by sheer force of
personality. Hysterical outbursts, petulant rants and violent tantrums are
his forte. Nuance, naturally, is not. And yet, ironically, this same
monstrous presence saves the basketball comedy Semi-Pro [...]
Is U2s new 3D film better than being at a concert
23 February 2008, 06:06 No comments
U2 has always been an early adopter. In the 1990s, the band toured with a stage featuring 50-foot-tall LED video screens, and this decade it partnered with iTunes in an effort to gain relevancy with a new generation of music fans. So it’s logical that U2 would go high tech with its first concert film [...]
Is U2s new 3D film better than being at a concert
23 February 2008, 06:06 No comments
U2 has always been an early adopter. In the 1990s, the band toured with a stage featuring 50-foot-tall LED video screens, and this decade it partnered with iTunes in an effort to gain relevancy with a new generation of music fans. So it’s logical that U2 would go high tech with its first concert film [...]
Is U2s new 3D film better than being at a concert
23 February 2008, 06:06 No comments
U2 has always been an early adopter. In the 1990s, the band toured with a stage featuring 50-foot-tall LED video screens, and this decade it partnered with iTunes in an effort to gain relevancy with a new generation of music fans. So it’s logical that U2 would go high tech with its first concert film [...]
Golfers dodge smoking ban
13 February 2008, 03:03 No comments
Smoking in public parks and on Salt Lake County trails is now a big no-no.
But don’t worry, golfers. You can still light up a cigar while you wait for your next tee shot.
On Tuesday, the Salt Lake County Council approved a smoking [...]
