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The good news started rolling in shortly before 3 pm. Exit polls from 10 key states showed that Democrats were leading the Senate races in eight—even in places like Ohio and Missouri—while Republicans were only pulling through in Tennessee and Arizona. The trend held all night. Thanks to the Republicans’ bungling of the Iraq War, […]
Oh boy, oh boy! It’s Halloween time… the best time of the year. The bad news: It’s on a Tuesday, which is going to make the Wednesday hangover suck. The good news: Who gives an eff, it’s Halloween, and there’s a ton of stuff to do. HAUNTED HOUSES No one is too cool for a […]
Are you ready for some Coast Guard propaganda? You’ll be drowning in it by the end of director Andrew Davis’ The Guardian. Best described as the Top Gun of Coast Guard movies, The Guardian manages to use every training-to-be-the-best cliché in the movie biz. The setup: Renowned veteran rescue swimmer Ben Randall (a washed-up Kevin […]
From here on out, whenever I start to question my drinking habits, I’m running straight for my copy of Irvine Welsh’s newest, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. I’ll never be near as bad as alkie protagonist Danny Skinner—it’s hard to compete with Skinner’s drunken tumble into alcoholic deterioration. Skinner is a hard-working, hard-drinking […]
Wm. Steven Humphrey, Courtney Ferguson, Adam Gnade, Erik Henriksen, Marjorie Skinner, Chas Bowie, Christine S. Blystone, Matt Davis, Kaitlyn Burch, Scott Moore, Amy Jenniges, Will Gardner, and Jenna Roadman Best of 3am
Remember that awesome scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when Indy and crew are in the mine cart on a nauseating roller coaster ride that’s plunging deeper into the hellish depths of crazy-cult mountain? You can thank Cinerama for inspiring that shot. In fact, David Strohmaier’s documentary Cinerama Adventure is an engaging […]
It’s easy to get patriotic on the Fourth of July when you have razzle-dazzle, blastacular fireworks overhead—but what will you do while waiting for night to fall? Hmmmm? Chili Feed and Karaoke Get ready for some fireworks of the gastronomical variety while you’re consuming mass quantities of chili, cornbread, root beer floats, and homemade apple […]
PLEASE DON’T GROAN when you hear the premise! Clean is the “touching” story of a junkie trying to get her life back on track and prove she can be a good mother to the child she’s abandoned. Aah… you’re groaning. But the film really is touching. Mostly because Maggie Cheung (best known in America for […]
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