| HPU kicks off 2008 Movie on the Mall series
Supersize Me" is the first film for Hawai'i Pacific University's 2008 "Movie on the Mall" outdoor film series. The free movie will screen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on upper Fort Street Mall, 1188 Fort Street Mall. At 5 p.m., local radio station HOT 93.9 will play music and and Govindaji's on Fort Street Mall will provide vegetarian and vegan food for the event, sponsored by HPU's newly formed Vegetarian Club. The club has partnered with the Center for Student Life and First-Year Programs to present a film intended to stimulate conversation within the HPU and island communities. "Supersize Me" is a documentary by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who himself undertook a steady diet of McDonald's for 30 days; he won a best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for the film.
Tri-State Briefs
BELMONT, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Continuing Education Department and the Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development Coalition are hosting the Building Economic Strength Together conference from 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, at the Baymont Convention Center in Belmont. Event organizers say the conference brings people who are committed to local and regional economic development together and teaches them how individual successes can promote economic wellness throughout the region and state. The cost for a full-day conference, including dinner, is $55 per person, $45 per person if they are in groups of two or more, $25 for a full-time student and $25 for dinner only. To register, visit www.uwplatt.edu/cont_ed or call UW-P Continuing Education at 608-342-1314.
Newspaper staff honored for coverage of Hispanic immigration
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Is Tory plan to vet films censorship?
If tax credits are up for review at a time after the film has been produced (which is when you apply for them--it's impossible to beforehand) the banks will hire risk-assessment consultants to review the film for potential 'policy' deviations before they lend the money to the production to finance those same tax credits. Otherwise the banks will sometimes lose their money. No matter how fair and impartial the committee is or will be does not change the fact that the mechanism of the money for film and television production only works through bank lending, which this Bill will make equally more difficult to attain for all, under all circumstances. Please remove the provisions of a review process for tax credits, it is not only unwise but also stupid. Sincerely, Carl Laudan Director of "Sheltered Life" .
Dylan descends on Dallas House of Blues
Bob Dylan's music seems to have always been a part of contemporary American life, yet so little is known about him. The 66-year-old singer/songwriter, who rose to prominence on a wave of a cultural revolution in the mid-'60s, made an art out of toying with the press early on. Unwilling to reveal much of himself or his creative process, Dylan delighted in non sequiturs and folding questions back upon themselves during interviews from that heady era. Then he withdrew from the spotlight in the '70s and spent much of the decade reeling from a series of personal trials. Dylan was almost reclusive, resisting any attempt to lift the veil of mystery surrounding his music. It remains true today as most new interviews with Dylan seem like exercises in futility, round-robins of insightful queries and opaque responses.
Charity Begins at Home Sales
In the market for a retirement home last spring, design engineer Douglas Knapman says he looked at 20 communities before deciding on The Settings at Mackay Point in Yemassee, S.C. What tipped the balance wasn't the golf course, swimming pools or fitness center. It was a presentation at an open house by developer Richard McWhorter, who invited people to take part in a fishing tournament he was underwriting to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In addition to donating $15,000 to the foundation -- an employee has two children with the disease -- Mr. McWhorter offered to cover the $1,200 entry fee for any resident or home buyer who would take part in the fund-raising tournament. .
I Want My iTV
The recorders, which the company claims deliver "television your way," also allow you to connect to the Net and do things like check freeway traffic before your daily commute, buy movie tickets from your couch, and listen to Web radio, all on your TV. In July, TiVo even became the first device that lets you search easily for programs from cable outfits along with movies and other content delivered off the Web from Amazon's (AMZN ) Unbox video service. .
Damaging Tornadoes Hit the South
No fatalities were immediately reported in Prattville, outside Montgomery, but two people were critically injured, said Fire Department official Dallis Johnson. Twenty-seven people had minor injuries, officials said. About 200 homes were damaged or destroyed. A curfew began as darkness fell Sunday. A 35-bed mobile hospital unit was set up outside a Kmart to treat victims with minor to moderate injuries so that hospitals could take those with serious injuries, Dr. Steve Allen said. Toppled utility poles and storm debris littered the area. Shelters opened at churches, and school buses shuttled storm victims out of the stricken area to the city center. David Shoupe, 18, assistant manager at Palm Beach Tan, said he and a co-worker barely made it into a laundry room before the roof fell in and the wind tossed shopping carts aloft.
As a voice is stilled, memories are stirred
IT WAS THE spring of 1977. I was 12 years old, living in Landover, pondering my upcoming ascent to high school and sitting at a crossroads. I needed a baseball team to call my own, and it was obvious by then, six years after the Senators moved, that my hometown was not going to provide me with one.
I swallowed hard and told myself, "It's the Orioles or nothing." One night soon after, on the transistor next to my bed, I tuned in the D.C. station carrying the games. Guess who was there to welcome me to Orioles baseball, to Memorial Stadium and to Baltimore?
Chuck Thompson, of course. The franchise couldn't have asked for a better salesman. For that matter, neither could the city itself. I couldn't have asked for a better escort into this new, unexplored territory.
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