An icy CEO (Gillian Anderson), a troubled ex-CIA analyst (Dermot Mulroney) and other D.C. parents drop off their kids at an elite high school for a field trip. Before long, the bus is ambushed by criminal masterminds who blackmail the well-connected parents to do their bidding. This could mean the
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Food Dude
Remember when Chipotle was the good guy? The Colorado chain had just 16 stores in 1998 when McDonald’s bought a majority share in the company. It quickly grew to 500 outlets before McDonald’s divested. Now it has 1,500. It built its image around a remarkable series of billboards and magazine
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Anyone who knows the city streets only as far as they’ve had to navigate from the interstate to their job is probably unaware that a decade ago the McCoy family once ran a pool hall in Beaverdale. Even fewer people likely know that when McCoy’s closed in that location, the
Read More →Teach a Man to Fish … The Drug Users Resource Center in Vancouver, British Columbia (heralded previously in News of the Weird for a vending machine dispensing 25-cent crack-cocaine pipes to discourage addicts from committing crimes to fund their habit), launched a program in August to supply alcoholics with beer-brewing
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Political Mercury
There’s this terrifically descriptive term college administrators use these days. Helicopter parenting (hovering protectively over one’s kids) is creating a new breed of college freshmen university deans call “Teacups” — young people who are so fragile they break down, crack, anytime something doesn’t go their way. The Atlantic magazine recently
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! WHO HAS THE ENERGY FOR THIS? Police were called to MidAmerican on Court Avenue on March 3 at 3 p.m. on a report of second-degree theft. The supervisor reported $2,000 missing from transactions and indicated the suspect may be an employee. Upon review of
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Locker Room
It was just three decades ago that Lanny Potts introduced to the world a machine that many would come to love and even more would come to mock: All the entertainment of walking up the downward escalator with none of the fun that comes with dodging pedestrians, the StairMaster is
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Film Review
“Le Week-End” 3 stars Rated R 93 minutes Comedy Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan Audiences familiar with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi’s work — reference “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid” — will want to seek out the author’s latest collaboration with director Roger Michell (“Venus”). They
Read More →The March 6 Cityview (“Free fries or a ‘not-gay’ punching pass,” Political Mercury) presents some humorous instances that might have resulted had the Arizona law given businesses the right to discriminate based on perceived sexual orientation. His examples illustrate that it’s quite easy to mistakenly see behavior as gay when
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