Max Minghella (left) and Chris Rock (right) in SPIRAL from Lionsgate. (Photo credit: Brooke Palmer)
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Hey my conservative friends scoot up to your computer and let’s have a talk like we used to, without referring to all the Washington talking points. Remember how we used to tease each other when you said “Democrats like to tax and spend,” and I would counter by saying "Republicans raise fees…
The City of Victoria Environmental Services offers a range of waste disposal methods to help residents get rid of waste safely and sustainably. Keep reading to find out where your trash goes—and how you can make sure it gets to the right place.
From the producer of “Unfriended,” “Unfriended: Dark Web,” and “Searching” comes the latest thriller to utilize the Screenlife format where the entire film transpires over different screens including computer, tablet and cell phones. Valene Kane (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) plays a Briti…
From my position behind this keyboard, I’m looking at the strategy the GOP is using to win the 2022 midterms. The MAGA base is controlling the agenda so the only policies they are supporting are social ones. i.e., illegal immigration, guns, abortion, voter suppression and cancel culture. Gra…
I’m detecting a doll fetish as director William Brent Bell follows up “The Boy” and “Brahms: The Boy II” with another horror film that features bigger adult-size dolls that haunt a Brooklyn brownstone in this not-so-scary tale of possession.
I set my TV to record Joe Biden’s Address to Congress or the State of the Union because I usually watch the Astros. Luckily, the Astros fell behind the Mariners and I opted to watch the speech on my phone with the volume off the TV.
Dreamers may need the Dream Act of 2021 to be passed, but Texas needs it more.
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Residents who like to ride Loop 463, particularly at night, were likely pleased to see crews replacing lightbulbs last week. A recent payment from TxDOT allowed the City of Victoria Public Works to replace burned-out or outdated bulbs along the loop. Once the new LED lighting is fully operat…
As a kid growing up, I remember getting excited when Joe Raposo’s piano-driven “Sesame Street” theme hit the airwaves signifying the opening of another episode. There I was singing along, “Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away,” in anticipation of spending another hour with my television frien…
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I have finally given up on the prospect of any meaningful gun safety regulation or a ban of AR-15- like weapons at the federal level. I have felt that way since Sandy Hook in 2014 but CNN’s Michael Smerconish solidified my opinion. Mr. Smerconish said what I have been saying all along, “We h…
Writer-director Neil Burger (“Divergent”) crafts a science fiction drama where teenagers govern themselves in this “Lord of the Flies” space odyssey featuring a solid cast of today’s rising stars led by Tye Sheridan (“Ready Player One”) and Lily-Rose Depp (“Crisis”). “Voyagers” takes place i…
Crestwood Drive is once again open to two-way traffic between Laurent and Ben Jordan, and the newly reconstructed road is looking sharp. Communications staff paid a visit to the scene as contractors moved the barricades:
Just past the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown, writer-director Ben Wheatley unveils his answer to the pandemic. “In the Earth” is the nightmare that you’d expect from the filmmaker that gave us “Kill List,” “A Field in England” and “High Rise.”
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We are a GOP nightmare because we vote absentee in every election and we encourage our friends to do the same. And we don’t fall prey to the GOP gaslighting campaign. Voter fraud is not the real issue, voter suppression is.
Hello all you movie fans!! I am so glad to be back and watching movies again! Plus what better way to celebrate going to the movies again than to enjoy Godzilla vs Kong. This movie brings us a fight of two titans to see who will rule as the alpha. Legend says there can only be one alpha- …
While at NYU, writer-director Emma Seligman was told by a professor that she should write about something she knew for her finals. Sugar babies and shivas came to mind. What started out as a short film has now become Seligman’s feature debut and it’s funny as hell. “Shiva Baby” is centered o…
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Two men stand out in the school board election that is taking place in May – Dale Zuck and Kenneth Wells.
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It seems that most of the time, we see people write columns who criticize and tear down, but rarely praise. At the beginning of March, I had the pleasure of volunteering to help at our Victoria Community Center, the site of Covid 19 vaccine shots. Volunteers showed up at 7 a.m. and were give…
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When it comes to street repairs, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—and sometimes, the best strategy is to fund both.
Expectations are high as the clash of the titans is anticipated to jump-start the box office when “Godzilla vs Kong” opens in theaters this week. The special effects are fantastic and director Adam Wingard — who came highly recommended by Peter Jackson — delivers the action that moviegoers a…
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President Joe Biden has been in office for two months and the far right is still pushing the “Big Lie.” The Big Lie relies on gullible people falling prey to the theory “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Believing that the 2020 pr…
He’s older than Keanu Reeves yet younger than Liam Neeson — meet cinema’s newest middle-aged action star Emmy-winner Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) who takes the everyman hero to the next level courtesy of “Hardcore Henry” director Ilya Naishuller and writer Derek Kolstad, the architect b…
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I’ve been discussing immigration policies for well over 50 years. The same stumbling blocks remain because our legislators can not come together for a serious conversation about passing a comprehensive immigration reform package.
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When did our country change to such an extent I’m beginning to doubt the very core of who we are as Americans?
The best salesperson I ever met was a guy named Bob. He was older, chain-smoked like crazy, but as soon as he walked in a door the room would light up. He became close to his clients by getting to know them on a personal level. He would ask about family, sports and hobbies, and close with “O…
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