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Hate crimes are typical here Editor, Regarding: “Victim no more” by Linda Sickler: I was also beaten in City Market, a few years back, with many of the cityís finest being two blocks away. My friend and one other were walking when we were attacked for what seemed a hate crime as well. I went…

The Blotter

A man was in his house on Greenbriar Drive, talking on the phone, when he heard glass breaking at his front door. Then he heard someone attempting to open the door. The man hung up the phone and opened the door to find two men wearing stockings over their faces. The man told police he…

Featured Review: Slither

SLITHER If nothing else, this deserves credit for offering us a break from the current trend of nihilistic horror flicks whose sole purpose is to devise groovy new ways for psychopaths to torture and murder innocent people. Make no mistake: Slither offers gore by the bucketful, but the movie’s in the spirit of those enjoyable,…

News of the Weird

Are We Safe Yet? In a two-day period in March, alarming reports revealed that “dirty (radiation) bombs” easily entered the country in car trunks in tests, that one-third of U.S. civilian nuclear research reactors were insufficiently secure, and that concerns were heightened about the 2,000 shoulder-fired missiles said to be unaccounted for in the worldís…

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TAKE THE LEAD Like a vampire scurrying to avoid the rising sun, an unfortunate number of filmgoers still insist on staying clear of documentaries, which even in this era of Michael Moore and penguins are often presumed to be dry-as-desert-sand. Fortunately for these audience members, Hollywood is always willing to water down the formula by…


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