He doesn’t really follow his own advice, even though he sounds like a true believer whose admonitions are as certain and immutable as his own mortality.
If it’s not in the Constitution, it should be: Everybody has a right to an affordable pool party close to their home so that they don’t have to drive across town in sweltering summer heat to have fun.
In the two decades between 1989 to 2009, the three worst pop hits, in chronological order, were A) Milli Vanilli’s “Blame It On The Rain”; B) Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way”; and C) Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” Musically speaking, those songs blow massive amounts of chunks.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
This doomsday documentary, which debuted at this year’s Sundance film festival, explores the escalating nuclear arms race — and how someone building, buying or stealing a bomb could trigger disaster. Gary Oldman narrates; talking heads range from former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev to ex- CIA intelligence agent Valerie Plame Wilson. At Village Square. (91 min.) PG; thematic material, images of destruction, incidental smoking.
So much for the theme-park ride theory of cinema. With “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” movies have abandoned the roller coaster model in favor of the video game aesthetic.
It sounds great and looks better. Of course. It’s “Vegas! The Show.” It’s over baked and doesn’t understand that sometimes less is more. Of course. It’s “Vegas! The Show.” Either way, it’s true to a city’s entertainment legacy. More important, its heart is in the right place.
Saturday and Aug. 21, the Silverton is giving away a Lexus (or $30,000 cash or free slot play) as well as nine $300-$500 cash prizes.
Tim Allen and The Walt Disney Company have a lot to thank each other for. But Girls Scouts on the front row?
WASHINGTON — The House cut off its summer break for a day this week to wrap up unfinished business, and Thursday morning, the Senate did the same, or at least a couple of senators did.
As part of General Motors Corp.’s Mark of Excellence program, Henderson Chevrolet recently hosted a luncheon at the dealership to acknowledge service technicians who had earned the award.
Casslyn Welch admitted smuggling drugs into a 3,500-inmate prison about six weeks before she helped three inmates escape from the same facility, a Kingman, Ariz., police report states.
A thread on the popular drag racing website Nitromater.com is titled: “Are we second fiddle?”
It refers to the U.S. motor sports pecking order where NASCAR is No. 1 and NHRA a distant second.
The writer is not happy about a revision to the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule that moves a race at Phoenix International Raceway from mid-April to the second race of the 2011 season on Feb. 27. The move was made after the date opened when Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., lost one of its two Cup races on what traditionally had been the weekend after the Daytona 500 opener.
