Odds & Ends Odds & Ends An executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department was finally fired after skipping work for 24 years. According to a government statement, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 15, 2015 Read More
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Odds & Ends Odds & Ends According to London’s Daily Mail, a 12-year-old schoolboy in St. Petersburg told his parents he had been asked to play Soviet dictator Joseph [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 08, 2015 Read More
Reel World: Albuquerque Comic Con, Albuquerque Film Festival, “Low/Fi” Premieres Comic Sans The Albuquerque Comic Convention returns this weekend, Jan. 9 through 11, to the Albuquerque Convention Center (401 Second Street NW). It should give [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 08, 2015 Read More
Idiot Box: Best Tv 2014 Top 10 Shows Around The Dial “Fargo” (FX) Translating (however loosely) the Coen brothers’ 1996 Oscar-winner into a TV series was risky as hell. But writer-creator Noah Hawley took [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More
The Oddest Ends Of 2014 Elf lovers and environmental activists have joined forces to stop a highway expansion they say will have a negative impact on a major [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More
Reel World: Worst Film Of 2014 The Worst Films Of 2014 Saving Christmas—Hampered by slim budgets and dogmatic stories, “faith-based” films often end up with a few less-than-professional offerings each year. The worst of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More
The Best Films Of 2014 Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu has spent his career creating laudable-but-depressing ensemble dramas (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel)—which only makes this rule-breaking comedy [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More
Idiot Box: New Year’s Eve Around The Dial New Year’s Eve Around The Dial Unlike other holidays where television is the last refuge for the terminally lonely and those who want to escape from their relatives, New [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 25, 2014 Read More
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends A Spanish theater troupe has found a creative way of getting around a new government tax on theater tickets—by selling porn instead. The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 25, 2014 Read More
