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Miami Heat (55-14)
The Heat extend their winning streak to 26 games and the only negative thing is the need to make so many furious comebacks to keep it going. (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)
San Antonio Spurs (53-17)
Tony Parker returns after three weeks, but in his second game back, despite scoring 23 points, it was not enough to beat the Rockets on the road. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
Denver Nuggets (49-22)
The Nuggets are on a 15-game winning streak, and after beating the Thunder in OKC, that leaps them in the rankings despite being three games behind - they may be able to secure the #2 seed in the West. (Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)
Oklahoma City Thunder (52-19)
The Thunder had another 20 point win, 103-83 over the Blazers, to match the Spurs for the most this season with 17. (Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)
Memphis Grizzlies (47-22)
The Grizzlies slipped up on the road to the Hornets, but bounced back to beat the slumping Celtics with bench player Jerryd Bayless notching 30 points. (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
Los Angeles Clippers (48-22)
The Clippers had a come-from-behind win over the Nets at home as Chris Paul scored 17 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter to show he is a true leader. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
New York Knicks (42-26)
A healthier Carmelo Anthony returns to top form and leads to a modest four-game winning streak, making a huge leap in the rankings. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Los Angeles Lakers (36-34)
The Lakers had bad losses against the Suns at home and against the Wizards even though the last loss occurred with a full roster as Kobe Bryant returned from a sprained ankle and Pau Gasol six weeks after a foot injury. (Photo credit FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Indiana Pacers (43-27)
The Pacers beat up lesser teams this week, but couldn't handle a short-handed Bulls losing 87-84. However, underrated David West missed a game suffering from a lower back sprain. (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
Brooklyn Nets (41-29)
The Nets squeaked by the Suns 102-100 without Joe Johnson, due to a quad contusion. The Nets looked good until the fourth quarter in a loss to the Clippers and have the challenge of a continued west coast swing in Portland and Denver. (Photo by Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images)
Atlanta Hawks (39-31)
The Hawks playing two point guards in the backcourt with Devin Harris and Jeff Teague has worked especially well this week with two wins over the Bucks as the tandem scored a combined 43 and 30 points. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/NBAE via Getty Images)
Houston Rockets (39-31)
James Harden's 15-foot jumper with 4.5 seconds was the decisive bucket in a 95-94 win over the Spurs as the Rockets battle the Warriors and Lakers for seeding positioning. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
Golden State Warriors (40-31)
Big game from Steph Curry scoring 35 in a win over the Wizards, but once again one of his tender ankles is sprained and his status for a big upcoming Lakers game is uncertain. (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
Boston Celtics (36-33)
The Celtics have hit a plateau and have begun sinking since the early success following Rajon Rando's injury. The loss to the Heat (105-103) where Jeff Green scored 43 points, may have demoralized the Celtics as losses to the Hornets and Mavericks followed. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Chicago Bulls (38-31)
A huge win over the Pacers without Joakim Noah may settle things for a while in this roller coaster of a season, but the Heat loom large this week and should tell a lot about the team's fortune. (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
Dallas Mavericks (34-36)
The Mavs have been playing their best basketball and have sights set on an eight seed as the Jazz continue to slump and the Lakers lost two unexpectedly this week. (Photo by Danny Bollinger/NBAE via Getty Images)
Milwaukee Bucks (34-35)
The Bucks should be motivated to catch the Celtics for the 7th playoff seed to avoid the inevitable first-round loss to the Heat, but the Bucks are playing like they've settled into the eight spot. (Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
Utah Jazz (34-36)
Perhaps the Jazz should have made a trade as since the deadline passed the team's slumping has regressed further more. (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)
Portland Trail Blazers (33-37)
Too much talent on this team to be under .500. A coaching change is in order. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
Washington Wizards (25-44)
For a while now, the Wizards do something impressive every week and this past week was no exception with a comeback win over the Lakers in LA. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
Philadelphia 76ers (27-42)
Every now and then the Sixers show some mettle or that they have not given up on the season and last week they played the Nuggets tough. (Photo by Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)
Toronto Raptors (26-44)
The Raptors are on a four-game losing streak and contemplating shutting down Rudy Gay who has back problems. (Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images)
Cleveland Cavaliers (22-47)
The Cavs are on a five-game losing streak and injuries to backcourt mates Dion Waiters and Kyrie Irving dampens the end of the season. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
Minnesota Timberwolves (24-44)
Derrick Williams continues to play well, but it does not look like Kevin Love will return from injury. (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images)
Sacramento Kings (25-46)
Arena deal reported may keep Kings around, but who wants to see them? (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
Detroit Pistons (24-47)
The Pistons snapped what had reached a 10-game losing skid with a win over the streak stopping Bobcats (Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images)
New Orleans Hornets (24-46)
The emergence of Robin Lopez has been the best thing to come out of this season. (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
Phoenix Suns (23-48)
Beating longtime rival/nemesis the Lakers has been the best part of this season as they did last week and right before the All-Star break. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Orlando Magic (18-52)
The Magic are on a six-game losing streak, but young players like Mo Harkless still gives hope. (Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images)
Charlotte Bobcats (16-54)
It was a banner week with two wins and that could have matched the season's best three-game winning streak, but lost 92-91 to the Pistons. (Photo by Brock Williams-Smith/NBAE via Getty Images)


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A 23-year-old Florida man is suspected of setting a house fire that killed his father on New Year's Eve, authorities said.
Baron Von Duke Vercruysse was arrested Tuesday. Officials with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said 52-year-old Rene Dominique Vercruysse died of "homicidal violence."
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The Tampa Bay Times reported deputies believe a dispute between the father and son led to the death. However, deputies did not release further details.
Authorities found the father's body when they responded to the fire at about 10:20 p.m. on Monday.
The son was charged with first-degree murder. The Times reported his prior arrest record includes charges of larceny and possession of controlled substances.
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The all-new Kia Forte will be sold in a 5-door version when it goes on sale a little later this year.
Kia showed off the slick hatchback version of its popular sedan Thursday at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show.
The 2014 Kia Forte 5-door does away with the sedan's conventional trunk and gets a sleek hatchback instead.
There will be two versions. The EX gets a conventional 2-liter, 4-cylinder engine, while the more upscale SX will get a more powerful turbo-charged engine.
Kia also used the Chicago Auto Show to take the wraps off its new Cross GT Concept. The car is just a design study for now, but shows what Kia designers would do with a small SUV.
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The NCAA's single-game scoring record wasn't just broken Tuesday night. It was shattered.
Jack Taylor of Grinnell College in Iowa put up 138 points in a 179-104 Division III basketball win over Faith Baptist Bible.
The sophomore guard put up an astounding 108 shots -- draining 52 of them.
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Effective addiction treatment exists, but few get it
Countless people addicted to drugs, alcohol or both have managed to get clean and stay clean with the help of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous or the thousands of residential and outpatient clinics devoted to treating addiction.
But if you have failed one or more times to achieve lasting sobriety after rehab, perhaps after spending tens of thousands of dollars, youre not alone. And chances are, its not your fault.
Of the 23.5 million teenagers and adults addicted to alcohol or drugs, only about 1 in 10 gets treatment, which too often fails to keep them drug-free. According to recent examinations of treatment programs, most are rooted in outdated methods rather than newer approaches shown in scientific studies to be more effective.
People typically do more research when shopping for a new car than when seeking treatment for addiction.
A groundbreaking report published last year by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that the vast majority of people in need of addiction treatment do not receive anything that approximates evidence-based care. The Columbia report found that most addiction treatment providers are not medical professionals and are not equipped with the knowledge, skills or credentials needed to provide the full range of evidence-based services, including medication and psychosocial therapy.
The authors suggested that such insufficient care could be considered a form of medical malpractice.
The failings of many treatment programs and the comprehensive therapies that have been scientifically validated but remain vastly underused are described in an eye-opening new book, Inside Rehab, by Anne M. Fletcher, a science writer whose previous books include the highly acclaimed Sober for Good.
There are exceptions, but of the many thousands of treatment programs out there, most use exactly the same kind of treatment you would have received in 1950, not modern scientific approaches, A. Thomas McLellan, co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia, told Fletcher.
In an interview, Fletcher said she wanted to inform consumers about science-based practices that should form the basis of addiction treatment and explode some of the myths surrounding it.
One such myth is the belief that most addicts need to go to a rehab center.
The truth is that most people recover (1) completely on their own, (2) by attending self-help groups, and/or (3) by seeing a counselor or therapist individually, she writes.
Often, Fletcher found, low-cost, publicly funded clinics have better-qualified therapists and better outcomes than the high-end residential centers typically used by celebrities.
Contrary to the 30-day stint typical of inpatient rehab, people with serious substance abuse disorders commonly require care for months or even years, she writes. The short-term fix mentality partially explains why so many people go back to their old habits.
Dr. Mark Willenbring, a former director of treatment and recovery research at the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said in an interview, You dont treat a chronic illness for four weeks and then send the patient to a support group. People with a chronic form of addiction need multimodal treatment that is individualized and offered continuously or intermittently for as long as they need it.
Willenbring is especially distressed about patients who are treated for opioid addiction, then relapse in part because they are not given maintenance therapy with the drug Suboxone.
We have some pretty good drugs to help people with addiction problems, but doctors dont know how to use them, he said. The 12-step community doesnt want to use relapse-prevention medication because they view it as a crutch.
Before committing to a treatment program, Fletcher urges prospective clients or their families to do their homework. The first step, she said, is to get an independent assessment of the need for treatment, as well as the kind of treatment needed, by an expert who is not affiliated with the program you are considering.
Check on the credentials of the programs personnel, who should have at least a masters degree, Fletcher said. If the therapist is a physician, he or she should be certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
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Deleting your Google Account affects all data associated with that account and any services you use, like Gmail, Google Play, and YouTube.
You can delete your Google Account at any time, but you may not always be able to restore it.
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Once you delete your Google Account, you'll no longer be able to use the following:
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With every penny counting these days, it's no surprise that everybody is searching for every single tax deduction and write-off they can find.
After all, saving money on taxes in the spring can free up a significant amount of cash that you could be doing other things with the rest of the year.
Itemizing might save you money over taking the standard deductions, but you need to remember that not all deductions and write-offs are applicable to every situation.
Some are limited by scope or other criteria, so don't forget to read the small print. Working with an experienced accountant or checking your facts with the IRS will also save you headaches in the future.
Keep in mind that peppering your taxes with lots of these write-offs might arouse suspicion with the IRS, which doesn't tend to be too tolerant of mistakes.
No. 5: Bad debt
According to the IRS, bad debt can be converted into deductions and write-offs in certain business and nonbusiness cases.
Bad debt occurs when you extend credit to someone, offer a payment plan, but never receive the money you are owed.
The most important thing with this deduction is that you must have significant proof of the debt and establish that you have taken reasonable steps to collect.
Make sure you've saved the invoice or invoices that you submitted to the other individual or entity.
Be careful though; you must also show that a transaction could not be considered a gift. Therefore loans to relatives where there was an understanding it might not be repaid, or any loans to minor children to pay for basic needs, cannot be considered deductible bad debts.
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If you've used Energy Star products to make some home improvements, you might qualify for a tax credit.
The government is offering tax credits for qualifying geothermal heat pumps, small wind turbines, solar energy systems and fuel cells installed through 2016.
Be sure to save all receipts and the manufacturer's certification statement for your records. You can claim the credit using IRS Form 5695 and include the credit on line 52 of the 1040 form.
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There are no deductions or tax write-offs if you've simply picked up and moved cross-country, but you can get some tax relief if you've moved more than 50 miles for a new job.
According to the IRS, you may be able to deduct your reasonable moving expenses but not any expenses for meals.
Besides the 50-mile "distance test," the IRS also requires a "time test." You must work full-time for at least 39 weeks during the first 12 months immediately following your move. The IRS offers exceptions to the time test in case of death, disability and involuntary separation, among other things.
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Two dogs made a daring escape from a two-alarm apartment fire in Oregon.
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When fire crews got to the apartment in McMinnville on Monday night, they found the pit bulls trapped on a second floor deck, Portland TV station KPTV reported.
One of the dogs climbed up on the railing as firefighters worked to put out the flames, then jumped to the ground below.
The second dog also jumped after a firefighter broke out the deck railing and tore away some wire fencing.
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On Tap for Today: Taking a dip, Superman and senior dance
It's so hard to predict the weather. Even people who do it for a living can be wrong.
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Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw is being treated for cancer, NBC announced Tuesday.
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'RoboCop' reboot strictly by-the-book
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Conor Oberst playing with Dawes at Pabst Theater
Conor Oberst - of Bright Eyes and Monsters of Folk fame - is playing with yet another band: Dawes.
The folk rock group will be Oberst's backing band, and his opener, on a newly announced tour that will make a stop at the Pabst Theater May 31. »Read Full Article
Cafe Bavaria opens in Tosa's village on Thursday
Cafe Bavaria, the Lowlands group's take on a German restaurant and bar, opens to the public Thursday at 7700 Harwood Ave. in Wauwatosa, next door to the group's Cafe Hollander.
The restaurant is easing into its opening, with brunch beginning Feb. 22 instead of this weekend. The grand opening is Sunday. »Read Full Blog Post
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Milwaukee County Parks invite skaters to practice their best Olympic moves Wednesday by offering free skate rental at Slice of Ice in Red Arrow Park, 920 N. Water St.
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Orioles beautiful new season tickets!
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looks like i only got the stadium view for my 13 game plan, besides the weaver statue ticket. that game is part of the plan
They definitely stepped it up this year with ticket design.
certainly did. they do look nice.
When I turn my head to the right they do indeed look good!
A couple of buddies and I are doing a baseball road trip in May – taking in 6 MLB games and 4 AAA games, including a tilt between the Louisville Bats and the Norfolk Tides. Spring training decisions aside, if you can recommend any prospects that might be playing for Norfolk in May that we can keep an eye on during ST and the first couple of months, that would be great. We will be doing some live blog stuff from games etc – should be fun.
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Marble Museum: seeks tenants, rent freeBy Bruce Edwards
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The entrance to the Vermont Marble Museum located in the old Vermont Marble Company building in Proctor is shown.PROCTOR The Vermont Marble Museum is looking for a few good tenants to fill space in the building that houses the museum rent free. Building owners Marsha and Martin Hemm are putting the word out that theyre looking for industrial, retail, studio and office tenants to occupy the remaining space in the factory building with up to eight months of free rent.
The Hemms signed a deal at the end of last year to sell most of the museum collection to the Preservation Trust of Vermont for $250,000. The Trust also has a one-year option to buy the building from the Hemms for $480,000. Of that amount, the Trust has raised $125,000 toward the purchase, including a $100,000 donation from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.
It will ease in the long-term operation (of the museum) to have additional tenants in the building for sure, Paul Bruhn, executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont, said Monday. And I think it will make a difference to donors or potential donors to know that the building will be self-sufficient long term.
There are six existing tenants in the building, including small manufacturers, retail, studio/workshop, office and storage, Marsha Hemm said in an email.
That leaves 16,735 square feet available to lease: 3,000 square feet of finished, air conditioned office space, with conference and lunch room (Hemm said the office space can be single offices or suites); a 4,835-square-foot, three-bay garage and workshop with mechanics pit, office and bathroom; 800 square feet of retail space; a 600-square-foot studio; and 7,500 square feet of light production space.
Facing an end of the year deadline to purchase the museum collection and the building for $880,000, the Preservation Trust came up short in its fundraising effort. But the Hemms accepted $250,000 for the exhibits, museum gift shop and 2,500 large format glass negatives that chronicle the history of the Vermont Marble Company at one time the largest marble company in the world.
Not included in the collection purchase price is the stone library and paper archives. The stone library contains marble samples from around the world. An unidentified Northeastern university has expressed interest in acquiring the library and paper archives. The archives include various Vermont Marble Company documents, including blueprints.
Faced with a spike in Proctors electric rates, the Hemms last year decided to sell the museum. The Preservation Trust of Vermont stepped forward and agreed to purchase the museum rather than have the museum collection possibly broken up and sold to an out-of-state buyer.
The Hemms have agreed to operate the museum for another year, which Bruhn called a blessing, that will allow the Trust to concentrate on fundraising and find a permanent nonprofit to assume ownership and operation of the museum and building.
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MONKTON Tensions were high, but Monkton residents remained calm as they voiced their growing displeasure with the proposed natural gas pipeline expansion project that could run through the middle of town.
My well will be impacted; its directly in the path of the pipeline, said resident Mike Bayer. We get nothing. We dont get the benefits to lower fuel costs. That is a giant problem. You will make a lot of damage to a lot of people to make money somewhere else.
Upwards of 80 people gathered at the Monkton fire station Thursday night to meet with representatives from Vermont Gas Systems in a meeting that company officials hope will start the dialogue to resolve issues.
I want to start off on the right note, said Stephen Wark, director of communications with the company. I want to apologize. We have come up with a situation that has not worked for Monkton.
The Burlington-based company has proposed laying a gas pipeline through several towns in Chittenden and Addison counties. The $72 million project, known as the Addison Natural Gas Project, would connect the pipeline that enters Vermont at Highgate and extend it south to Middlebury and eventually Rutland.
The pipeline will also enable the company to provide more than half of the gas to International Paper Co., in Ticonderoga, N.Y.
The company initially intended to use the Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) right-of-way corridor, but now alternate routes may be used that include going through town. This did not sit well with residents.
I am appalled by your lack of sensitivity to the impact youre going to bring, one resident told company officials at the meeting.
Though some residents seemed to appreciate the companys apology, others felt it was already too late in the game especially since the project was filed with the Public Service Board last month.
Monkton resident Renee McGuinness went so far as serving Vermont Gas with a series of notices of no trespass from several residents.
These notices against trespass are our statement that were not willing to cooperate until you move the route, she said. Vermont Gas has not shown any consideration or respect.
Vermont Gas is also facing resistance from residents in Hinesburg, who also do not want the pipeline close to their homes, schools or drinking water wells, and want another alternative route, whether in the town or bypassing the town.
Elsewhere, other municipalities have shown their support for the pipelines expansion. Last month Middlebury officials signed a letter supporting the project that, according to the company, would save approximately 2,100 eligible residential and business customers in Middlebury a combined $5 million per year on fuel oil.
In Rutland City, the Board of Aldermen are considering a resolution in support of the project.
I think it would bring huge benefits to the city and the area, said Mayor Christopher Louras, who proposed the resolution Monday. We could create jobs and retain jobs if its here.
He added, Its important that we sign on with a letter of support to the Public Service Board.
At the end of Thursdays meeting in Monkton, Don Gilbert, president and CEO of Vermont Gas Systems, said he found the public meeting to be helpful and apologized to residents for his companys apparent lack of communication.
We needed to hear this. We made a mistake in this case, he said. We want to work with you. We are committed to working with you.
Gilbert said the company is meeting with state regulators later this month to discuss rerouting the project and hopes to have representatives from Monkton at the table.
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UVM drops fee, sees more applicationsThe Associated Press | March 10,2013BURLINGTON A decision to waive an early-application fee is being credited with helping to increase the number of students applying to the University of Vermont by 2.7 percent.
The growth is part of a plan by UVM President Thomas Sullivan to make the school more selective by accepting a smaller percentage of the number of students who apply.
In addition to the decision to waive the $55 early application fee, UVM officials believe there has been a positive buzz about the school among students and high school guidance counselors.
That buzz continued through a very good summer visit season and into the fall, said Chris Lucier, the schools vice president for enrollment management.
As of last week, 22,277 students applied for admission to UVM, just below the all-time record of 23,365 set in 2009.
Of the total number of applicants this year, 2,118 came from Vermont students, a decrease of about 5.5 percent from last year.
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Blair McMillan and his family in Canada are living like it's 1986 -- really.
While most people couldn't imagine a day without their smartphone or the Internet, the McMillan family has decided to go a year without any post-1986 technology as a social experiment, the Toronto Sun reported.
It started last year, when McMillan noticed his 5-year-old son preferred to stay indoors and play video games on in iPad rather than go outside and play.
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Mishka, the famous "talking" dog who can mimic human voice, has impressed lots of peoples. But now she's making an impression on a fellow canine.
A German Shepherd was puzzled when she heard Mishka howling "I love you."
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Minimal design and a simple, intuitive display make Kisai On Air Acetate one of the most attractive watch designs available from Tokyoflash Japan.
Featuring a colored LCD display with touch screen technology, time, date and alarm, Kisai On Air Acetate is the fourth concept design submitted by a fan to become reality.
The limited edition Kisai On Air Acetate watch has a natural LCD display with blue LED backlighting. The LCD display is always on so the time can be read at a glance and the backlight function means it will light up on demand, a useful function for night time.
A multi-functional watch design, Kisai On Air Acetate features touch screen technology and displays the time and date. It also has an alarm mode and animation.
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In February 2010, Tokyoflash opened its Design Studio Blog to showcase its concept designs and request ideas for new watch designs from fans. The idea for Kisai On Air was submitted by Iskender Asanaliev & Adilet Asanaliev and was voted as one of the most popular designs by fans. This is the fourth concept submitted by a fan to become reality.
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When my brother and I designed this watch we didn't expect to receive so much attention from people all over the world. We only wanted to design a timepiece that was different to other classical watches. We started with a simple question "how can we show the time in different way?" because there are millions of watches which are not original. After sending our concept to some design related blogs we started to receive many e-mails from people who wanted to buy it. We were blown away and started to look for manufacturers, but unfortunately it was hard to find one because most of them were producing classical watches and this one was just too unusual for most companies.
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MLB Network's 16th Greatest Game & How the Twins Brought Work to a Halt
Monday nights are extra busy in my house so I have managed to miss the first four games in the MLB Channel's 20 Greatest Games in the last 50 years series. But the stars aligned tonight and I caught the program on game #16 – the Twins/Tigers one game playoff to determine the 2009 AL Central champion. I was surprised that MLB.com chose such a recent game, but I remember that one very well and, indeed, what a game!
I "watched" that one, which is a completely different thing from watching a game. In 2009 I was still working in the Mortgage industry for a bank recently purchased from the FDIC. If you know anything about the Mortgage meltdown in Southern California, you can probably figure out which one I am talking about and if not, well, suffice to say I had more of a front row seat than I wanted for the whole thing.
Anyway, my department was full of Angels fans and a department both pumped for the game and divided on who to root for…divided over who would best serve the Angels by beating the Yankees in the playoffs, that is. The Twins never beat the Yankees in the post season but they were just so scrappy that it was hard for some of us, myself included, not to root for them. The rest were sure the Tigers had the best chance. The problem was that my department always worked really late, especially at that time, and this was a Midwest game so there was no way any of us were getting home to see any part of it.
So, I was sneaking peaks at the game on my Blackberry as I worked, per my habit in those days, and a couple of my colleagues were checking in from time to time to get the score, per their usual game day habit. The other baseball fans all had company Blackberries, you see, while I only had my personal Blackberry, and company Blackberries had all sports sites blocked. Everything was calm through the 3rd inning with the Tigers comfortably in the lead, but then the Twins started to catch up. Suddenly people are working less and less and checking in more and more and then my boss came striding out of his office and up to my cubicle…no worries, this was standard procedure as well. He just wanted to know the score and get a quick play by play on the last inning.
As you probably remember, it was a heck of a game. The Twins tied it up then, in the 9th, the Tigers pulled into the lead and the Twins tied it up again. By the time the game went into the 10th inning, all pretense of working was gone and everyone had switched to rooting for the Twins. We moved into one of the larger cubicles by playing off of the Minnesota pride of one of the generally non-baseball fan team members and were alternately biting our nails and yelling and cheering as the score seesawed from 4-4 to 5-5. Around the 11th inning, we became refresh monkeys – the 15 second auto refresh rate on the Gameday site was no longer sufficient. When the Twins pulled it off, it was a good thing we were the only team left in our wing because it sounded more like a sports bar than the headquarters of a mortgage bank…and then we went back to work. We repeated this routine for the east coast playoff games until the Yankees took the Angels out of the mix and it was a blast. (I don't regret rooting for the Twins either, even as things turned out. I don't think the Tigers could have stopped the 2009 Yankees either. That team was tight and seriously on a mission.)
I do not miss my old job. I worked with good people and had a great run of it but I don't have the stomach to deal with the volatility of the Dread Pirate Mortgage Banking Industry anymore – Goodnight Blithescribe. Good work. Sleep well. We'll most likely lay everyone off in the morning. I really love my newer job and I work with great people here too…they're just more basketball and soccer fans. But sometimes I really do miss the baseball season camaraderie of a department full of Angels fans. However, the job change is part of the reason I started lurking on MLBlogs and eventually blogging myself. It's funny how well things work out sometimes.
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So you lost a job but gained a blog! Makes perfect sense to me. LOL. I remember that Tigers/Twins game so well, because it was incredibly tense and exciting even though I really had no rooting interest. Sorry I missed seeing it again on the MLB Network.
Jane – They might re-air it later this week. They don't air the whole game but they invite someone involved, in this case Michael Cuddyer, to sit with the MLB Network crew and narrate an hour long highlight reel of the game in question, which is fun because you get back story, context and a player's perspective in addition to watching all the best plays again. It's a pretty neat program.
Ron – It was such a good game and fun hearing Cuddyer's take on it too! I loved the story of him confiding in Granderson that he thought he just lost the game for the Twins after the missed play at 1st.
– Kristen
I remember that game very well. As a White Sox fan, I was bitter for the first half of it, considering how we had rolled over during the second half of the season and let the Twins get to that point. But towards the end, it wasn't about division rivalries anymore, it was just a great game! Alas, while watching it, I neglected to study for the next day's bio quiz and got a 69 on it. Oh well, it was worth it!
Catherine – Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting. Yeah, it's very easy to forget rivalries and biases when you are watching a great game. It's also best that most of the baseball season falls over summer vacation for the very reason you mention, LOL.
Liked that Twins vs Tigers one and done game. Made for interesting television that night as other team's were camped in their team hotels awaiting the results so they knew where they were flying that night.
Never thought I would see a "Sudden Death" format baseball contest, but that game fit the bill perfectly.
Fopr some reason I am thinking the same could happen in 2011….one game to the death match for a post season berth…only on Fox.
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I hope a game like that further adds to the discussion of adding another play of game or, de facto play in game. I like the idea of a one and done. So much pressure, but still considered a playoff match up
that was a great series i remember watching it with my dad and brother, one of those good family moments. And its good to read that you love your job!! you almost never hear that:)
I'm really enjoying the greatest games series on MLBNetwork, I haven't had a chance to see this episode yet but I will sometime this week. I actually watched that game on tv that day, great game.
The way both teams battled back and forth was 'inconceivable'.
Rays Renegade – Yeah, I never thought I would see anything like that either and it made for an exciting night that would have otherwise been without baseball. We could see something like that again this year…in your division perhaps? I think the Red Sox are going to be very, very good but I think that rest of the division is going to give them quite a run for their money. I'm sure not ready to call a winner yet.
Matt – The one and done game definitely was exciting, but I don't think I would have liked it if it hadn't happened organically. I'm all for keeping the playoffs the way they are. Of course, I'm one of the purists that growled when MLB added the central divisions and wild card race. But the current format has grown on me over the years, so who knows.
Johnny – Thank you for dropping by my blog and commenting. That does sound like a great time with your family! And, yeah, I really lucked out on the job front.
Russel – This was a lot of fun. I'm sold on the series now. It's great to get to see the players in a different light too. I had no idea Cuddyer was such a good story teller, for example. Inconceivable eh? LOL! "I do not think it means what you think it means."


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"Nothing Is Remotely Imminent" eh?
I guess I'll let Nolan Ryan off on a technicality. I mean there isn't a whole lot that's remote in the 48 hour distance between that statement and a signed contract now is there? No, that pretty much is just imminent. What was it I was saying a few weeks ago about the different front offices playing a little too much Diplomacy this off season? If I were actually sitting in on this particular game of Diplomacy I might say well played in addition to growling less sportsmanlike comments but, as it is, I'm just growling.
So Adrian Beltre is a Ranger and the Angels missed the boat again. I understand that the free agent market got outrageously expensive again this year. Under normal circumstances, I think sticking to one's principals is laudable but, right now, claiming to stick to their principals just looks like the Angels front office is making a piss poor excuse for terrible performance. We didn't strike out this off season, we barely even bothered to step up to the plate. And they better not start carting out Takahashi and Downs again like those signings make for a fine off season on their own and anything else would just have been gravy. Those signings were a great start, alas apparently on a road to nowhere. When nothing else followed, just admit that you messed up. That way you only look really stupid instead of abysmally stupid.
If I am being rational, I know this isn't the absolute end of the world. If I am being rational, I know that there is no one player who is the answer for us in a vacuum without any other changes. If we had landed Beltre and, defying all reason, the rest of bats went missing for most of the season again, a season with only Beltre and Weaver consistently performing to expectations isn't going to be any prettier than one where Weaver more or less consistently performed to expectations alone. If the bats actually show up, I think the team that hits the field in 2011, as it stands right now, is a better team than the one that hit the field in 2010. Rationally though, I really don't know if that is enough.
Again, if I'm being rational, it's a long season and we haven't started Spring Training yet. Everybody has to play 162 games, blah, blah, blah and all of the other clichés. But, seriously, a lot can happen in that amount of time, especially in California baseball. My sister and I have always said that no one, but no can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat (or, sadly, defeat from the jaws of victory but let's not go there right now) in the most unexpected of ways like California baseball teams. Angels, Dodgers, Giants, A's and Padres fans, you all know what I'm talking about. And tomorrow…okay maybe by next week, I will probably truly believe all of this and the other hopeful posts I have made on this blog again.
But tonight I don't feel like being rational. I am angry, enough so that I didn't so much type this as I beat and pounded it into the keyboard. Whether or not Beltre was the answer, I just wanted something, anything to point at and say, look, the front office is really trying this off season instead of well, just being trying.
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I figured you'd be angry about Beltre and the Rangers when I heard about it. And I tell myself the same things you do – that a lot can still happen, the season hasn't even started, blah blah blah. It's still annoying when players slip away and land with other teams.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Angels make some trades this year. It's obvious they lost out on free agents Crawford and Beltre, but that doesn't mean that can't improve their roster. If healthy, the Angels are a good team. With the right trade or two, they could be a serious World Series contender.
Angels' main targets this offseason have all gone to other teams. First crawford and now beltre. Outside the division, Angels don't perform so well. With pretty much the same roster as 2010, I am not sure how they can improve. I guess full season of Haren and Morales should help a little bit. Can they expect Bobby to bounce back or is he aging? Anyways, Angels would be my second favorite to win the division.
Jane – Yeah, last night was anger. Today it's anger moving towards resignation. I suppose grudging acceptance can't be too far off. It's the 5 Stages of Hot Stove Grief, LOL!
Ron – Thanks! Yeah, trades will have to happen at this point. And I can think of several candidates I would suggest – take Juan Rivera, please! But I doubt my suggestions will be the guys getting traded. Although, the Angels do seem to have better luck with trades than free agency signings. I miss Saunders but Haren was a much better deal.
OPWRKDNSCGTO – Thank you for dropping by my blog and for your thoughts! Yeah, the Angels have blown opportunities left and right this off season. Haren and Morales should help a bit in 2011 and if everyone just bats at their average instead of below like last year that will help as well – a lot of last year's losses were squeakers lost from lack of run support. But, you're right, this is all very iffy and 2011 is going to be tough.
– Kristen
Anger and Resignation has been hanging with us Dodger fans for too long.
Can you beleive ESPN threw that curveball of changing the Openner from Friday day game to Thursday eve with ESPN? AGHH. No Vin Scully! At least we don't have to go to SF and watch the hated Jints ceremony.
The Angels have a pretty good Minor League system, so maybe they're banking on some young guys stepping up in the next few years. I saw Mike Trout play in Cedar Rapids last season, and the guy is a beast. I wouldn't be suprised if he gets called up late this season.
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We may not have been a front runner for belier but pirate fans desperately wanted to make a splash with him. But other than that whenever a middle of the road paler goes elsewhere it disappoints me. It pains me that our organization is happy with the status quo. The pirates only need a few more pieces to be remotely respectable but it looks like another offseason letdown
I say it again, the angels need to get Vlad. I know that his knees aren't that good, his range isn't like it used to be, but hold out hope that the Angels front office gets him into a contract until he retires.
Look at this: 29 hrs, 115 rbi's and a .300 batting avg. is what Vlad had in Texas last season. Bring that over to the Angels, then you've got an explosive offense again with him in the middle of that line-up. I think the deal will get done and if the Angels miss out on him then shame on the front office.
Emma – I hear that. It's weird but the Angels and Dodgers often seem to be two peas in a pod with good seasons and bad seasons that match one another. Although your Dodgers have been pretty active this post season which is nice to see. I got the email about the opening day change (I went to the freeway series at Dodger Stadium last year so I'm on the email lists) and thought Dodgers fans wouldn't be too happy with it…though I suppose it's traditional for the World Series winning team to start a day ahead of everyone else. Maybe starting off against the Giants with an altered schedule will really fire the Dodgers up for the season? It could be a good thing.
Mike – Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting! Yeah, I am really excited about Mike Trout. But as much as I want them to bring him up soon, I hope they don't bring him until he's really ready. The expectations fans are heaping on him are verging on the unfair already so that's going to be a lot of added pressure. I want to see the kid get a fair chance to shine when he comes up.
Matt – Yeah, the Pirates always do seem to be a case of missed it by that much in terms of growing into a competitive team. It's frustrating when it feels like the fans know what the team needs better than the front office.
HTBM – If all we needed was a DH, I'd be cheering for the team to sign Vlad too but we have two defensive holes and must fill at least one for a "patch" solution to work on the other. I'm not denying his prowess. I've seen what he's done in years past for us and watched what he did for Texas last year and he can seriously hit anything. I've always maintained that if the pitcher decided to roll Vlad the ball with a little bit of speed on it, he could probably knock it for a base hit. We'll see what the front office does but if it's to be just a one player solution, this is not the way I would choose to go.
– Kristen
If it takes 6 years and 96 million to sign Beltre, then in the long run, I don't think the Angels missed out. The Rangers organization will probably be on the losing end of this deal, especially factoring Beltre's age.
Not much really left out on the free agent market besides possibly signing Vlad back. The Angels still have big pieces including getting Morales back and Weaver and Haren anchoring the rotation. Plus, I think Abreu is going to have a comeback year. I like the Angels chances even if their isn't any improvement via free agency or trade.
Risinghalo – Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting! I don't know about the cost. It's outrageous yes, but that seems to be the going rate this year. Being able to say nah nah you spent too much money on a guy over 30 in 3 years seems cold comfort when we have to watch the upside to their deal this season, next season and so one. That said though, when I am being rational instead of angry, LOL, I agree with you that all is far from hopeless for the very reasons you listed.
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Timeless storytelling fills 'A Country Doctor's Notebook'
While Mikhail Bulgakov wrote the stories in "A Country Doctor's Notebook" circa 1925-'27, about a young doctor's practice and plight in rural Russia, they don't read outdated, musty or strange today. Instead, they evoke archetypal situations we experience in contemporary medical storytelling.
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Brookfield native Ayad Akhtar has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play 'Disgraced.'
In his review of a New York production of the play, New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called "Disgraced" "a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse." »Read Full Blog Post
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When one crucial (and, really, primary) purpose of the power-pop subgenre is to revel in teenage (and post-pubescent) kicks, can there be such a thing as power-pop wisdom?
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Despite some juicy bits, Carte Blanche's 'Sweeney Todd' needs more flavor
Using "Porgy and Bess" to make a point about "Sweeney Todd," Stephen Sondheim has written that when it "was performed on Broadway it was a musical; when it was performed at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden, it was an opera."
What does one call this masterpiece about an insanely murderous barber and his wacky sidekick when it's performed in the intimate confines of Carte Blanche Studios' Walker's Point home? That can be as hard to pin down as the secret recipe to Mrs. Lovett's infamous pies. »Read Full Article
Dwight Yoakam brings Bakersfield sound to Riverside Theater
When Dwight Yoakam made his way to Nashville in the late 1970s, he was at a loss. Where was the rich honky-tonk soul of Buck Owens? Where were the bare emotions of Merle Haggard?
So the Kentucky native set west for Los Angeles, where his hillbilly rebellion and devotion to the Bakersfield sound found a strange bedfellow in the burgeoning punk rock scene. Nearly three decades after releasing his first album, Yoakam is still pushing back on the mores of modern mainstream country music, and last year's eclectic, neo-traditional "3 Pears" album topped the charts and critics' "best-of" lists. »Read Full Article(2)
It's official: Paul McCartney to play Miller Park July 16
It's a poorly kept secret no more.
Live Nation officials at Miller Park Monday morning confirmed what sources told the Journal Sentinel late last week: Paul McCartney will play at the Brewers stadium July 16. »Read Full Article
Artist Niki Johnson talks about her pope portrait on CNN
Artist Niki Johnson, who recently created a woven portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI using thousands of colorful condoms, appeared on CNN's "Faces of Faith" segment on Sunday morning (see video below).
Johnson talked about the message of her piece, which has made headlines around the world. It was inspired by the former pope's controversial comments about the use of condoms in 2009. »Read Full Blog Post
WITI reporter dances at fatal fire assignment
The thin line between news and entertainment got a little thinner Friday when WITI-TV (Channel 6) reporter Angelica Duria was roped into performing a promotional-type dance video while on assignment at a fire scene in West Allis where three children died.
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The Violent Femmes, featuring (from left) Victor DeLorenzo, Brian Ritchie and Gordon Gano, played its first set since 2007 at the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival Saturday. The Milwaukee band will play a homecoming show at Summerfest June 26. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images »Read Full Blog Post(2)
On tap for Today: Hoops and theater among today's options
Sports, theater, culture and beer. That's Monday for you.
Mount Mary College hosts a multicultural fair with food, dance and a marketplace starting at 4:30 p.m. »Read Full Blog Post


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August: Osage County has shades of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. It's a family drama, emotional and pitiful, with more than a few similarities to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winning 2007 play is a riveting drama about a dysfunctional family and their addictive behaviors, but the play, when done well, fares better on stage than, in this instance, screen. Smartly, the film relies on the power of strong, household name actresses who know how to handle movie roles to add the three-dimensional depth that's often lost when plays are transferred to celluloid.
Meryl Street and Julia Roberts are the A-listers who carry the film — and so powerful in some scenes that it almost feels as if they are method acting vampires sucking the energy from their moviegoer victims. It's truly an experience, much like being tossed around on a Tilt-A-Whirl.
Street plays Violet Weston, a pill-popping matriarch who wallows in her own self pity. She's suffering from mouth cancer — an interesting double entendre since what spews from her mouth are metal-coated accusations and passive/aggressive displays of pharmacology induced grandeur.
Her husband, Beverly (Sam Shepard) has his own dysfunction and his early disappearance in the beginning of the film is more cause for Violet's personal drama. Her three daughters, now grown and having fled from their caustic mother, return to the Oklahoma homestead to search for their missing father.
Oldest daughter, Barbara (Julia Roberts), lives in Colorado and is secretly separated from her husband, Bill (an uninspiring performance by Ewan McGregor, who seems more concerned with perfecting an American accent than acting), who accompanies his "wife" along with their rebellious daughter, Jean (Abigail Breslin). Youngest daughter, Karen (Juliette Lewis in one of her best roles yet), brings her latest future husband (Dermot Mulroney), Steve, a true cad who tries to seduce Barbara's teen daughter.
Middle daughter, Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) has been her parents' caregiver and her resentment has led her to the sensitivity of another family member whose spirit, too, has been squashed by the family's venom. It's another subplot that creates even more turmoil in this family that's layered with deep, dark secrets.
While the play depended less on star vehicles to drive its emotional storm, the film chooses the right powerhouses to ignite the fuel. While another actress could have played Barbara, this is a role for Streep, who gets to pull out all of her acting stops. Looking harrowed and almost unrecognizable in her first entrance as she stumbles down the stairs, Streep goes for broke in the first five minutes, barking one minute, then cooing the next as she introduces herself to a new maid (Misty Upham) who, in real life, would've run for the hills after five minutes of Violet's vitriol.
Roberts shows her muster as she takes on Streep, especially as the play's arc turns the madness over to Barbara, who appears to be following in her mother's self-wallowing footsteps.
Late in the movie, when the two go at it like two jousters not wearing armour, it's one of the best acting duels ever captured on screen. The two use every ounce of technique they've ever learned to pull of the coup.
August: Osage County is filled with moments like these. This is a movie (and play) meant to stir emotion, and stir the soul's pot it does.
The fault of the film version that made the play so impactful, however, is its direction. John Wells doesn't help his actors find depth that will align them with the audience. There's no one in this movie that you hope succeeds. It is as if his leading ladies took their scripts home, read through them, memorized their lines, and came back and Wells called "action." There are plenty of missed opportunities. When Barbara performs an intervention and raids the family home of Violet's pills, you almost wished she had intervened on Wells' behalf, too.
But August: Osage County shouldn't be missed. There are some historical acting lessons to be learned from the pros here despite the film's many flaws. And that is worth the price of admission.


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It's hard not to be prejudiced against 'Austenland'
Jane Austen would spin in her nearly 200-year-old grave at the crude and broad movie made in her name.
Knowing it already has the attention of the hardcore fans of her books such as "Persuasion," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Sense and Sensibility," "Austenland" sets its sights on the mass audience — and fails both groups. »Read Full Article
Entertainment Weekly runs full-page spread on Summerfest
The major media mentions continue for Summerfest 2014. The star-studded lineup--including Bruno Mars,Lady Gaga,Luke Bryan and Usher--has been getting praise in Milwaukee and nationwide media including USA Today,Rolling Stone,Billboard and Time. And now, Entertainment Weekly has devoted a full page to the Big Gig in its new Summer Music Preview edition.
Titled "One Giant Festival By The Numbers," the supersized infographic offers a series of metrics that speak to Summerfest's status as the world's largest music festival. »Read Full Article
Florentine Opera performers sing the praises of home
Planets align. Stars emerge. And in between, a house becomes home, if only temporarily.
That's what happened to create Casa di Opera, a house that was renovated so that young members of the Florentine Opera would have a place to hang their sheet music during the roughly nine months they were in Milwaukee. »Read Full Article(1)
Milwaukee movies off the grid: May 16-17
Some alternate movie offerings around the Milwaukee area this weekend:
UWM Union Theatre
Senior screenings: Graduating seniors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's department of film, video, animation and new genres show their work at 7 p.m. Friday. Free. »Read Full Article
DJ Kaskade to play Friday at Milwaukee's Oak Lounge
In March, Kaskade headlined the Ultra Music Festival in Miami — a premiere event for electronic dance music — in front of tens of thousands of people.
So what's the progressive house DJ doing playing the 250-capacity Oak Lounge in Milwaukee on Friday? »Read Full Article
Paint Nite brings art, with a beer chaser, to area bars
Anyone walking past the window at Riviera Maya on a recent Sunday afternoon would have looked twice. Inside, 25 smock-wearing customers wielded paintbrushes. Easels were set up where chip baskets are usually in place.
Artist-instructor Jamie Peschke stood at the front of the room directing the painters step by step in the creation of a picture called "Calla Lily." »Read Full Article
'Under the Skin,' with Scarlett Johansson, confounding, captivating
"Under the Skin" is so baffling and riveting that when a reel was skipped the first time I saw it I never batted an eye.
It wasn't all that narratively literal beforehand, and this, I thought, was just another ambiguity, in the tradition of David Lynch, whose "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Dr." make U-turns in the middle and turn into something else. Even seeing it a second time as intended offered no a-ha moment — or more, accurately, posed a different set of questions. »Read Full Article
'Fed Up' serves up an anti-sugar message
Stop me if you've heard this one, but our kids are getting fat. Really fat.
The latest documentary on America's nutrition crisis, "Fed Up" often feels like a dish we've been served before. Still, it is effective at zeroing in on Dietary Enemy No. 1 — sugar — and the food industry's unrelenting work to redirect the nation's efforts away from the problem. »Read Full Article(2)
This week's concerts
7 and 9:30 p.m. Monday,Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave. 7 p.m. show sold out; $38 for 9:30 p.m. show at the box office, (414) 286-3663 and pabsttheater.org. »Read Full Article
'Godzilla' massively entertaining, once it gets going
I'm not saying skip the first hour or so of "Godzilla."
I'm just saying that, like any lumbering beast, it takes a while to pick up speed. And when it finally puts its scaly foot down, it compensates for the puny generic prelude. »Read Full Article(4)
'Million Dollar Arm,' Jon Hamm make pitch with baseball drama
The only thing that could make "Million Dollar Arm" more heartwarming would be Hank the ballpark pup.
Smack in the middle of the superhero summer comes a chai-flavored tale of emotional growth and personal redemption that is part "Slumdog Millionaire," part "Jerry Maguire," and straight out of the "Cool Runnings" school of unlikely sports stories. »Read Full Article
Sturgill Simpson finds his cosmic path to real country music
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Nickolas Butler, David Rhodes, Larry Watson: It's an all-Wisconsin list of fiction finalists for 2014 Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards
Three Wisconsin novelists make up the short list of fiction finalists for the 2014 Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards: Eau Claire's Nickolas Butler for "Shotgun Lovesongs," Wonewoc's David Rhodes for "Jewelweed" and Milwaukee's Larry Watson for "Let Him Go."
The trade group Midwest Independent Booksellers Association gives out the awards. To be eligible, books must have been published between May of the previous year and April of the current year, and "must pertain to the Midwest in theme, content, or origin of author." »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Travel through time with 'Hamlet, A.D.D.'; Meet your match
Tonight is your chance to see "Hamlet A.D.D.," an independent feature film by Milwaukee duo Bobby Ciraldo and Andrew Swant. The bizarre take on a Shakespeare classic was shot entirely in front of a green screen, with live-action characters traveling through centuries in an animated world, moving from 1602 to present day and into the future.
The film, which has been in the works for a decade, will have its Milwaukee premiere at the Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave., at 7 tonight. Buy advance tickets here. »Read Full Blog Post