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Every morning before I move on to the latest breaking news, I look at my Facebook memories 3- 5 years ago just to see if we are making any progress. We are not even trying.
Most people loved that President Trump wanted to make America Great Again. One of his slogans really hit home, he wanted to “drain the swamp” in Washington.
First-time director Natalie Erika James uses dementia associated with Alzheimer’s as the basis for her horror debut “Relic.”
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To celebrate National Park and Recreation Month, the City of Victoria is spotlighting its Parks & Recreation employees who help make Victoria a great place to live, work and play.
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I don’t know what role James “Ragin ‘Cajun” Carville will be playing in the 2020 presidential race.
Based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 best-selling book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” comes the true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, which took place Oct. 3, 2009 as U.S. forces engaged the Taliban in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Afghan War.
If you’re not familiar with the international singing competition known as the Eurovision Song Contest, the annual event began in 1956 and features competitors from 50 mostly European countries. Points are awarded by each country (you can’t vote for yourself) to help determine the winner. AB…
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As concerns about COVID-19 gripped the Crossroads, the start of hurricane season came and went June 1 without much fuss.
After following politics for over thirty years I’ve lived by two notable adages to keep my sanity.
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In 1973, Hungarian director Peter Medak ran into an old friend, actor Peter Sellers, while strolling down King’s Road in London’s West End. Sellers, already had two Pink Panther films under his belt as well as Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
The haunted house at the heart of David Koepp’s thriller “You Should Have Left” is an amalgamation of the Winchester Mystery House, The Overlook Hotel, and the Headland House from Leigh Whannell’s “The Invisible Man.” The modernist Airbnb located in Wales, upstages actors Kevin Bacon and Ama…
Gone with the Wind received so many Oscars in 1939 that Bob Hope called it a benefit for David Selznick, the Producer.
For years I have been saying that we are in a culture war when it comes to guns, race, and the status quo.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign in preparation of 92 minutes of nerve-racking tension. Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers an intense performance as an American co-pilot on the red-eye from Berlin to Paris when terrorists attempt to hijack the plane. The s…
John Hawkes and Logan Lerman play against type in the father-son drama “End of Sentence” from Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins.
As I saw the images of Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee in the the neck of a handcuffed George Floyd pleading for his life and saying “I can’t breathe” brought back memories of Eric Garner some six years ago.
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“The King of Staten Island” is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow (“Trainwreck,” “Funny People,” “Knocked Up”) which was set to debut at SXSW this year.
University plays important role in shaping future of community
I have spent the last several days watching with growing concern as the situation surrounding the death of George Floyd has unfolded before us on the national stage. In particular, I was shocked by the senseless and violent nature of his death. Coming as it did on the heels of other senseles…
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Welcome to the feel-good movie of the summer. Tracee Ellis Ross (“black-ish”) plays superstar pop singer Grace Davis who’s at the stage in her career that finds most aging artists doing a Vegas residency to cash in on the success of their past hits.
Peaceful protests during the daylight hours are American as apple pie but once the sun goes down, they often take on a life of their own.
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Following a first-rate performance in “The Invisible Man,” which opened just before theaters shuttered, Elisabeth Moss returns as American horror-mystery writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s follow up to 2018’s Sundance smash “Madeline’s Madeline.”
Patience is not my middle name. I pray and pray and get frustrated sometimes in waiting for the response I need or want. After writing that, I realize I sound like a frustrated 3-year-old.
I’m old enough to say that “if you wait long enough…it’ll come right back to you.” There are variations, for example, a football lineman used to say about Barry Sanders’s illusiveness “instead of chasing him and falling flat on my face, I’ll wait right here for him.”
Recently, I wrote about young children and the craziness of kids, but there is more to that story because I now have four millennials.
Rating best/worst songs is always a fool’s errand. One man’s cup of tea is another man’s poison. Humorist Dave Barry created a runaway seller with Book of Bad Songs in which he skewered songs that we can all agree are bad. Or can we? For every person who loathes, say, Gary Puckett, there are…
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In the second part of my interview with Chief Fox we cover Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19, both so impactful to Victoria in such different ways.
Zoinks! The origins of the Mystery Inc. gang are revealed in the new computer animated Scooby-Doo feature that kids will enjoy more than parents.
I always think I am over the daily ad hominem attacks, but as the scene from the “Godfather” when Michael Corleone said, “Just when I thought I was out ... they pull me back in.” The only difference, I voluntarily subject myself to tribal disputes. It’s not a weak moment that I can blame on COVID-19.
For those who love Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” and Chris Carter’s “The X-Files” comes this 1950s sci-fi thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
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In “The Godfather: Part III,” we watch a frustrated Michael Corleone played by Al Pacino deliver the line “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” It’s a pivotal scene that indicates no matter what he does he’s trapped in a vicious cycle.
I know, I know, coming from someone like me; it sounds hypocritical. I’m still a political junkie and I plead guilty for adding to the divisiveness but I wish we could apply something I learned at my former workplace.
Dear Shelly Luther,
You are a hero to me on several levels and I want to thank you for standing up to that liberal judge in Dallas.
I don’t mind a good argument but I hate conspiracy theories. And then the conspiracy theorist will follow up with an invitation to look at their YouTube evidence.
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